[Open-bio-l] volunteering for openbio

[Ravi Iyer]

Thanks for the feedback everyone.  I actually have some code for newsfeeds
lying around which I can tweak to give you something to at least stimulate
ideas.  Hopefully this can evolve into something which can integrate with
Chris' content management system which is mentioned below.  I'm not writing
it from scratch anyways and I have my own selfish reasons for doing it (part
of my self education in the the field), so it's ok if it doesn't get used,
but it'll at least address much of what you mention below.  I'm a bit of a
lazy webmaster myself and I run a few sites which I struggle to maintain
freshness on (ie. aboutmytravel.com, aboutmyjob.com, codengo.org,
newbornscreening.com), so I empathize.  I'll whip something up and send you
a link and you guys can tell me if I'm at all on the right track.

btw, do you guys have php installed on your webservers?  also, has anyone
ever thought about doing a biophp project?  Not that it's really necessary
to be able to do the same thing in 6 different languages, but writing some
kind of interface (or even just documentation on how to interface into
open-bio from php) would probably teach me a lot about the biological side.

Ravi

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Pocock" <matthew_pocock@yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Jason Stajich" <jason@cgt.mc.duke.edu>
Cc: "OpenBio list" <open-bio-l@open-bio.org>; "Ravi Iyer"
<ravi@theassistants.com>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Open-bio-l] volunteering for openbio


> Hi.
>
> The other wish-list item (from our point of view) is the possibility to
> view multiple "versions" of parts of the web site. This is important for
> tutorials and documentation and stuff. We should realy have had all of
> this under CVS and tagged across repositories - such is the wisdom of
> hindsight. Something functionaly equivalent to
> biojava.org/branch-tag/our-sight-rooted-here with biojava.org refering
> to latest stable or HEAD.
>
> Is this sort of thing possible? As always, documentation and the web
> site seem to get pushed to the bottom of the list of things to do.
>
> Matthew
>
> ps does anybody have any experience with subversion? It at least has
> webdav access so that we could have the 'we exist' web sites, docs,
> tutorials, releases stuff all being controled centrally with apropreate
> accounts, but last time I played with it things weren't quite there yet.
>
> Jason Stajich wrote:
> > Before we go gung-ho on suggesting content management systems - chris d
> > has put some work into making this easier with a new system that is
> > already up and running but won't get rolled out until he gets back from
> > buisiness trips at the end of the month - the key point is that someone
> > has to write content and keep it up to date.  Part of that means
following
> > the project and writing
> >
> > We are looking to have a shared news feature that is reflected in all
the
> > project websites along with a project specific news and static pages.
The
> > goal is making much easier to insure that the news is up-to-date and
that
> > we don't have multiple old versions lying around.
> > -jason
> > On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>Well - almost certainly I think it is the web site that
> >>>sounds the best
> >>>place to start for you - What I would do is poke around the
> >>>web sites and
> >>>then propose a system which has to
> >>>
> >>>  (a) let the different sites have control of content sensibly
> >>>
> >>>  (b) has some commonish look and feel
> >>>
> >>>  (c) perhaps lets News items be centrally managed so people
> >>>in BioPerl
> >>>see BioJava annoucements and stuff.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>What do other people think?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>I agree. Lots of developers will hug you if you get the website right
> >>(which basically means up-to-date news, announcements, and docs -- if
> >>any of these is outdated it leads to unfavorable results with people
> >>who actually trust websites presenting the latest stuff; I've had
> >>several discussions already about why bioperl has a 1.0 release if the
> >>news says 0.7).
> >>
> >> -hilmar
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