[olug-colo] Suggestions for Official E-mail

[Curtis LaMasters]

Drupal is fine for the website piece.  Look at Ubuntu.com...  We just
need to put the plugins in place to allow more freedom.  If Drupal
isn't a good match, Joomla is a great option as well as Wordpress
except for the forum piece...I have not found out that I like.

Curtis LaMasters
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
> IMHO we need something better than just text collaboration.
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> I can’t even post this picture I made that describes my current feelings on
> internet connections in Omaha.
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> http://omahax.com/img/ayi.png
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> (bad guy in quantum of solace)
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> I would suggest something like joomla or plone.
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> Plone is Zope/python and it is awesome.
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> Joomla is php and has already made modules/plugins for everything.
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> We need to give members the ability to do lots of stuff on the site so that
> the work load can be distributed.
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> We should be able to make it so that people can subscribe to forum topics
> and read and respond via email.
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> You can with wordpress so I if it isn’t already an available option as a
> forum plugin I wouldn’t think it would be that difficult to monkey mod it.
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> From: olug-colo-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-colo-bounces at olug.org] On
> Behalf Of Abraham Serafino
> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 9:10 AM
> To: charles.bird at powerdnn.com; Olug Community colo project
> Subject: Re: [olug-colo] Suggestions for Official E-mail
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> I second the Google Apps "motion."
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> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 8:58 AM, <charles.bird at powerdnn.com> wrote:
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> Sounds good, email is the only thing I check on a regular basis, mainly
> because of my ball and chain-berry
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: Dan Clough
> Sender: olug-colo-bounces at olug.org
> To: Olug Community colo project
> ReplyTo: Olug Community colo project
> Subject: [olug-colo] Suggestions for Official E-mail
> Sent: Apr 26, 2009 1:26 AM
>
> Something just occurred to me - we need a good unified solution for
> communication and collaboration.  Instead of just using the Drupal
> website set up at colo.olug.org (which appears to be quite unused
> nowadays), we should also set up email to use for official
> communications.
>
> We should establish official @omahaix.com email addresses for business
> purposes.  My suggestion is to use Google Apps.  Centralized mail,
> document sharing and collaboration, all that jazz.  Maybe it's just me
> but I think having official email addresses gives a better impression
> of how organized this venture is.  (The answer being "not very", but
> still, everyone else doesn't know that.)
>
> Thoughts?
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