At 1:46 PM +0200 5/31/00, Stefan Matthias Aust wrote:
>Regarding the web infrastructure, do you know Midgard
>(www.midgard-project.org).  I don't suggest to use that tool, but I
>like the site layout and the ideas behind that tool. So I recommend
>to check it out.  It's similar to ZOPE (www.zope.org) in its ideas
>and a free, opensourced web site application builder with an easy
>to use interface, built upon apache, php and mysql.

Bolot Kerimbaev, who's doing Comanche, is a major PHP fan.  My guess 
is that the internals of Comanche already look like Midgard.

I do hope that squeakworld.com can keep to the "Back to the Future" 
mantra of "Everything in Squeak."  For my students and me, I find 
that focus has enormous value -- at some level, it's all 
understandable and all inspectable and all explorable.  But I do 
understand that a commercial entity has concerns other than 
educational, and you certainly have to balance out the Squeak ideals 
and what you need to do to keep the farm.

At 1:31 AM -0700 5/31/00, "G–ran" Hultgren wrote:
>I was thinking of using CVS for content management - and it still 
>might come handy for some things
>- but a Swiki solution would be nicer, is this a rendered Swiki or 
>is the "public" side also
>served from Comanche? Is there any possibility that we could 
>"borrow" your setup on csl as an
>example or something? I assume it can be quite tricky to get it 
>configured. Comanche and
>Swiki-stuff does not really have a trackrecord of being 
>over-documented... ;-) ;-)
>

CSL is not a rendered Swiki -- both sides are served from Comanche. 
The images and uploads are served from Apple PWS.  CoWeb, believe it 
or not, is a simple Macintosh running OS 8.5.  It was a 7100, but I 
think we've now upgraded that one to a 7600 with a G3 board in it.

I think that Jochen and Bolot would be willing to help configure 
squeakworld.com, and Bijan, Jochen, Bolot, and Lex are working on the 
documentation side.  Take a look at Bijan's chapter at 
http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook/ as a starting point.  (It's 
PWS-only right now, but I've seen demos from Bijan and Lex which 
suggest that it's expanding to cover more of Squeak networking.)

Mark

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