|
Thanks for all the feedback so far, everyone! I left Jupiter because even though www.opensourcecms.com has it listed as open-source Jupiter expects you to pay money to remove their copyright and branding from the bottom of the page. I'm not sure what license they are actually under but it is obviously not the right one... Since most of the information on my site will be about truly open-source software I'd like to use an open-source CMS as well. Geeklog looked like it had potential but it relies on a plugin to handle forums which in this case means that to change the look-and-feel of the core elements I must change the look-and-feel of the forum plugin seperately which in some cases can be a lot of work. I want a CMS that will let me (or even on the user side) change the look-and-feel of the entire site (including the forums!) with a single variable. So far e107 is the only one that meets all of these requirements although I will definately take a closer look at Drupal too since it has come so highly recommended. Seaside definately looks impressive but I'll have to do some more research into what I can and cannot do with this webhost before getting any deeper. It's basically a shared host server running linux of one flavor or another. I have PHP, Apache, mySQL and the other usual suspects installed and enabled server side by the hosting company. Not sure if I'm allowed to install something like smalltalk on the box (I doubt it but I'll have to look), same with an alternative webserver (does Seaside run with Apache?) As to the question of wiki's I am not opposed to them although I've seen what can happen if they are exposed in a large community and easy to abuse. The wiki structure in and of itself is great for information on specific software applications, etc. I'm not opposed to one for this purpose although it looks like there are already some wiki's being done on the topic and I'd rather not waste time and resources to be overly redundant. A quick google shows: http://lawiki.fugal.net/linuxaudio/show/HomePage http://linux-sound.sonologic.nl/start http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/LinuxAudio and even wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_audio_software Perhaps a link to one, some or all of these projects or perhaps if/when linux-studio.org gets up and running one of these other projects could somehow be integrated with it. As for the use of forums, as I think I expressed in an earlier thread that touched on this topic, I'm a member of several large forums including ubuntuforums. It is simply my belief that while maillists cannot be discounted as an excellent, low-resource means of communication within a community that it is not the most fertile ground for growing a community which is one of the primary goals of the linux-studio.org project. I believe that what linux audio needs is a visable community where people can come and learn and interact together. I'm not sure if my attempts with linux-studio.org will show great fruition but that's the idea anyway. Thanks! Jon Hoskins |
