I'll reply to various points that have come up on this thread: a. Hosting Al Hopper has recommended in the past that we host on AWS. However, we also got support from ruse39 who provided us with a box at his data center. At present, the basic belenix website is hosted there.
b. Website content Most or all of the important content is available via web.archive.org. We can copy that content over to the new website once it is ready. If you check www.belenix.org (I've bounced the webserver and its serving content again), you'll see that I've pushed the content to github. Feel free to fork that, come up with something, and let's see what we can do next ! c. The website platform. I'm personally inclined toward some wiki technology, but I personally don't have much preference in any way. If anyone would like to demonstrate websites based on any platforms (django, xwiki, etc), then feel free to showcase to the mailing list. Thanks to ruse39, we have a box in which we can set up zones and try out things. We can have a zone per sample site, and can try things out. Note: www.belenix.org runs within a zone on an openindiana b151a host. My own personal interests are in working on the roadmap that I'd proposed here (http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/belenix-dev/2011-July/000280.html). A website is important, and managing content in it is important too. We need to figure out what'd be ideal for us, and follow that approach. -- Sriram On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Kaya Saman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Irek Szczesniak <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Kaya Saman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Al Hopper <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi there, >>>> >>>> If its static content, consider hosting it on Amazon Web Services along >>>> with >>>> (optionally) CloudFront. >>>> See: >>>> http://www.bucketexplorer.com/documentation/amazon-s3--how-to-use-Amazon-s3-for-web-hosting.html >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> > >>>>> > Though Django is a very good tool, it might be too much to use >>>>> > for the Belenix website. I would suggest some simple >>>>> > microframeworks like Flask or Bottle. Thanks >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> >>>>> Sorry for replying to my own mail. But I just realised that >>>>> the website is mostly static content. So, we might not need Django or >>>>> Flask. So, why not use some simple HTML+CSS+JS lib. I would recommend >>>>> YUI3 + HTML as it would do a very good job at creating a good looking >>>>> site. Thanks >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Thank you >>>>> Balachandran Sivakumar >>>>> >>>>> Arise Awake and stop not till the goal is reached. >>>>> - Swami >>>>> Vivekananda >>>>> >>>>> Mail: [email protected] >>>>> Blog: http://benignbala.wordpress.com/ >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> belenix-discuss mailing list >>>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Al Hopper >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> belenix-discuss mailing list >>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> long time no post here..... >>> >>> What about using one of the: Media wiki, Xwiki et el..... platforms?? >> >> IMO overkill. Try the KISS principle. A plain subversion repository as >> version control system and access control for the web page would be >> beneficial. >> >> Irek > > > Hmm.... not sure how developers like to work as here @work we have an > SVN repo and portal for most things, but since I use 2 instances of > Xwiki at home for my personal projects I thought it might be useful to > have somewhere where one could - not only have a nice site but also be > able to upload documents and other types of file and colaborate > etc.... > > > But as you said it might be overkill since you guys have already > established a means of working over the years. > > > Regards, > > > Kaya > _______________________________________________ > belenix-discuss mailing list > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss -- ------------------------------------ Belenix: www.belenix.org Twitter: @sriramnrn _______________________________________________ belenix-discuss mailing list http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss
