On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 00:38:30 -0500, Russell Hires <rhires@earthlink.net> wrote:
> PS Many thanks go to Paul Foster for allowing this project of mine to
> proceed. He has put a lot time and effort into our group to make it what
> it is...
>
> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 00:24 -0500, Russell Hires wrote:
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I've presented to three different SLUG meetings a proposed new SLUG
> > website that I've built using the current site's content, and a Content
> > Management System (CMS) called Plone (see http://www.plone.org/ for
> > details) built on top of a web application server/development
> > environment called Zope (see http://www.zope.org/ for more information
> > about that).
> >
> > So...if you want to see what's been developed, have a look at
> > http://www.village-smurf.com:8080/Test_SLUG
> >
> > Tell me what you think! Please note that the URL is case sensitive, a
> > side effect of the whole thing being written in Python. The site is
> > hosted currently on my G3/266 Powermac, and hasn't been optimized. At
> > some point, if every one likes it and we can put it on nks's servers,
> > the SLUG site will run on zope/plone behind Apache. Also, I'm not
> > completely done. I haven't created a todo list yet...but I'm getting
> > closer to writing one up every day! :-)
> >
> > I'm still going to do a presentation in Dunedin...
> >
> > Features/Benefits:
> > # Meeting Calendar
> > # Workflows
> > # User created content
> > # Security/Access Control Lists
> > # Opt-in/opt-out of website related changes (such as a job posting)
> > # Searches
> > # Scales well to 1000's of users (not that we will need that)
> >
> > Potential drawbacks:
> > # Requires maintenance/care and feeding
> > # So far, I'm the only one who knows Zope/Plone!
> >
> > My goal in creating the site was to address a need that some folks had a
> > couple of years ago, but since they've gone off on their own...Lately
> > I've been able to sit down and take my flash in a pan idea and make it
> > into something worthwhile. I'm happy to contribute back to my community
> > in this fashion.
> >
> > The need I'm speaking of is job postings. The current situation requires
> > someone filling out a form, and having Paul send an email to the list
> > saying there's a job posting. My solution is that a user fills out a
> > form (aka a job type), and submits it. After this, the reviewer looks at
> > it, decides it's okay, and publishes it. The act of publishing causes an
> > email to go out to everyone that has opted in (through their user prefs)
> > to receive these emails that announce the job. Plone has a facility for
> > having content be available for a set period of time, after which it is
> > not available for viewing. This greatly simplifies the process, believe
> > it or not. :-) Many of the manual steps become automated.
> >
> > I hope you like it. Please send feedback!
> >
> > Russell
> >
This looks great!!! Now for the nit picking:
1.)The list of distros definitely needs to be changed. The first is
SCO and I'm not sure if it is covering all the mainstream ones.
2.) From looking at the FAQ it seems that your code needs some work in
order to keep the width usable.
3.) Will there be any reason to login?
Other than that, good job!!!
OT: How is Zope? I recently learned python and Zope was mentioned as
being useful. Is it really worth it?
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