[Biojava-l] Weblog / Apps repository

[Chris Dagdigian]

Hey folks,

Please don't reinvent the wheel just for biojava.org. If you want to 
work on the website join up with the OBF webteam which is actually in 
the process of architecting and building our new website(s). One of the 
key design requirements is an easy/centralized way to post news and 
interesting items. The to-be-used server is already online and is just 
waiting for the backend software to be installed.

Webteam mailing list info: http://bioperl.org/mailman/listinfo/webteam

-Chris


Webteam mailing list

Thomas Down wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:30:09AM +0000, David Huen wrote:
>
>>Weblog
>>======
>>There have been several requests for something like a weblog for
>>biojava over the last few months.  Before I actually put some effort into
>>locating a suitable weblog package and lining up a host to run it on,
>>could someone tell me what we could gain from it that the current
>>newsgroup set up does not already provide?  As is evident, there's a
>>sysadmin/security overhead for any additional facility and I wouldn't want
>>to add to it without a clear overwhelming advantage for us to do so.
>>
>
>I think the idea of this was to make it easier to post
>news items to the front page of the website.  I don't think
>the idea is for the weblog to replace the mailing list, but
>to provide an additional, more public, forum for significant
>announcements.
>
>Certainly, at the moment the website looks pretty dead,
>which seems a shame.  (which reminds me, I ought to post
>a message about bootcamp-II there -- I'll do that this
>afternoon).
>
>I'm open minded about whether or not a weblog is actually
>the way forward here.  
>