[matilda] website suggestion

[Amparo P Gutierrez]

Yes, but if we agree that no decisions are to be made by email, this 
would be a decision made on this email list, outside regular or informal 
meetings... there was some talk about it, but i think we need more 
opinions, and please understand that i value Alan's of course and Dan's, 
but even so, why should the hack-lab act in this respect with more 
privileges than other collectives.
It's just a fair question...
Seven calendar days would be enough under more standard circumstances, 
don't you think? So i propose that this topic is raised at our regular 
Monday meetings, explaining the available options to all and providing a 
few days more for a final decision to be made.

Thanks for considering this


Amparo



Chris wrote:

> Hi
> 
> On Thu 17-Nov-2005 at 05:29:50PM +0000, Amparo P Gutierrez
> wrote:
> 
>>Why have we started with another CMS without having
>>agreed upon first?
> 
> 
> Alan posted about it here on the 9th Nov:
> 
>   http://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/matilda/2005-November/001159.html
> 
> And also last Sunday:
> 
>   http://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/matilda/2005-November/001215.html
> 
> And there wasn't any dissent...
> 
> More works needs to be done on it... it's a work in
> progress...
> 
> 
>>Dan wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Well, if we could use Joomla (used to be Mambo) that
>>>
>>>1. Has polls
> 
> 
> So does MKDoc...
> 
> 
>>>2. Has a discussion forum component, event component
>>>etc.
> 
> 
> MKDoc doesn't have a forum but Vanilla looks good for
> this... It does have a time range component which is an
> event component in everything but name...
> 
> 
>>>E.g. look at my effort at www.cohousing.org.uk - a
>>>helpful poll on the right, and a forum on the left in
>>>the main menu.
> 
> 
> We can set all this up...
> 
> 
>>>Advantages: I know how to use this CMS, and we can make
>>>the template look any way we want.
> 
> 
> Same for MKDoc... I was thinking of setting up a
> development version of the site and it could be set up so
> that others also can access the templates using
> TortoiseSVN http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ if needs be...
> 
> 
>>>Disadvantage: we've already started with another CMS.
> 
> 
> Yeah, but it's not quite there yet... 
> 
> Chris
>