Re: [Denemo-devel] denemo.org somewhat disabled

[Glen Peterson]

I haven't been on sourceforge for years.  Seems there are lots of ads
and it's not immediately obvious to me how to create a web page or use
the wiki.  I see a lot of OpenID projects are hosted on Google Code:

http://code.google.com/

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Glen Peterson <address@hidden> wrote:
> For the mailing list, why not use Google Groups?  I've used that for
> several other collaborations.  It's free and easy to use and keeps
> history.  Also it does a nice job preventing spam and "out-of-office"
> replies and is really easy to use.  I think it also digitally signs
> (DKIM) messages to aid delivery (so mails are not marked as spam).  It
> has good sign-up/leave tools as well and various permissions for how
> public messages are and for hiding email addresses from the public:
>
> http://groups.google.com/
>
> I don't know the history of this project, but I don't see Sourceforge
> in your list of options for hosting.  For any open source project,
> they host free source control, a wiki, a bug tracking system, forums,
> and a download section.  I've used it to collaborate on other projects
> and it worked great.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/create/
>
> I'll gladly set up either one if people are interested.
>
> --
> Glen K. Peterson
> (828) 393-0081
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Jeremiah Benham
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 02/19/2012 06:38 AM, Richard Shann wrote:
>>>
>>> Jeremiah
>>> It seems that denemo.org is in a somewhat disabled state - we have
>>> people trying to setup accounts and getting no email, and people unable
>>> to view pages.
>>> Are you able to look into this?
>>
>> I looked over the code on the server and scanned over the tiki
>> documentation. The documentation demonstrates configuring the website
>> through tiki itself. Unfortunately I don't see all the options so I can make
>> any changes. I think we may have to do something like re-install the website
>> have it point at the old database. The problem with having a website though
>> send out email is that I would have to set up the server to use a MTA (Mail
>> transport agent) like postfix or use smtp to have the mail relayed by
>> another server. Most email providers will through our emails into the bulk
>> or spam folder if we are not relayed by a reputable or white listed name. So
>> this will take some work if that is really import for us to have a website
>> that sends out emails to people. I think we need to think about the future
>> of our website and what we truly need. I personally have never used the
>> forum but maybe once. Then I forgot about it. I did not see any rss for the
>> page so that I could be notified if there were changes made to the page.
>> That would mean that people have to login to find out if anyone has written
>> in the forum. If no one ever writes in the forum then they will quickly
>> decide not to come back. We also have a facebook page that has its own news
>> feed and members. So we have #irc, mailing list, denemo.org web forum, and
>> facebook. I find this to be overwhelming. I can't keep up with all of that.
>> Part of me says we should just create a highly simple website with
>> minimalist features in git. Maybe we create a simple template in php or
>> shell script. What do we need the website to do? Why would people go to it?
>> Why would they want to comeback once they initially went to it? I would like
>> to see documentation articles that contain youtube video demonstration on
>> the documented features. Opinions anyone?
>>
>> Jeremiah
>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>
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Glen K. Peterson
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