[Biojava-l] Weblog / Apps repository

[Brian Gilman]

Hello all,


	Has anyone considered getting VA's "enterprise" sourceforge
package and using that for the open-bio stuff?? It might help with
coordination, consistent look and feel, mailing lists etc. Just a thought. 

				-B

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Brian Gilman <gilmanb@genome.wi.mit.edu>
Sr. Software Engineer MIT/Whitehead Inst. Center for Genome Research
One Kendall Square, Bldg. 300 / Cambridge, MA 02139-1561 USA
phone +1 617  252 1069 / fax +1 617 252 1902


On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Chris Dagdigian wrote:

> 
> 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.  
> >
> 
> 
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