[matilda] website suggestion

[Chris]

Hi

I have put the CMS for the web site on tonights Matilda
meeting agenda and also done some work on the site here:

  http://www.matilda.aktivix.org/

Some things to note:

- Anyone can sign up for an account, if you want to have
  edit permission over the whole site or a section of it
  send me an email (we will set up a dedicated
  matilda-admin at aktivix.org alias for dealing with this
  soon) and I can give your account editor rights.

- I have set up some audiences -- if all new documents
  have the right audiences selected then people who opt
  into the email updates and set their preferences will
  get emails about new pages that match their preferences
  when they are added to the site.

  - Art
  - Creative Activities
  - Film Screenings
  - Gigs
  - Hacklab
  - Internal Matilda Stuff
  - Parties
  - Political Meetings
  
- I have set up some initial pages for the collectives:
  
    http://www.matilda.aktivix.org/collectives/

  And added all the upcoming events from the wiki -- the
  best way to add an event to this site is to create a
  page for it, add text and images as required and also
  add a time range component -- the time range components
  are then listed on the front page and the events page
  with the upcoming ones first, past events drop off the
  listing.

  A couple of example events pages:

  - http://www.matilda.aktivix.org/collectives/gig-space/electric-blanket/

  - http://www.matilda.aktivix.org/collectives/indymedia/docfest2005/

  The idea would be that everyone in a collective can be
  given editor rights over their pages if they want them.

Some other thoughts: 

- I expect that most people will want / need some help
  with how to edit content on this site...

- The look of the site has not had any time spent on it,
  it's possible to make all the collective pages look
  different etc.

- The front page needs more work, the events listing can
  go in a box, perhaps on the right and a listing of
  recent forum posts could go below it.

Things to fix:

- There are sometimes 500 errors, a dedicated mod_perl
  apache should fix this, if you get one hit reload till
  it goes away.

- Crons jobs need setting up, without these the email
  newsletter, rss imports and search indexing won't
  happen.
  
I'm sorry I can't make the meeting tonight...

Chris
  
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