Hello,
I'm new to the list, I learned about OpenGuides via the perl.com article published recently. I'm a web designer and perl coder in Cincinnati, Ohio. The reason that I'm interested in OpenGuides is a website that I currently manage which promotes downtown Cincinnati as a place to live, work and play:
I'm not sure if OpenGuides is something I can integrate into this website or not. And although I personally like wiki sites, I doubt that my client would allow anyone outside of their organization to publish info to the site without administrator review and approval. So I guess that's my research task: Looking into whether there is an approval mechanism already implemented in OG. I've also noticed that the OG sites listed as examples looking remarkably similar, so I'm hoping to find out how much the template system can be modified. I've already noticed that OG requires PostgreSQL, whereas I've used MySQL in my work so far. More to research...
Also, I'm not sure whether any work I've done can be of benefit to OG or not. I certainly haven't tried to distribute that code to anyone else, so it would require some refactoring and repackaging, if there's unimplemented but desirable features in the first place. I'd also need to get my client's approval to open source some of their code if it's desired.
I'm intending to get OG installed on a test machine soon so that I can become more aware of its architecture and features, and I hope to lurk here for a little while until I get my bearings.
I've got a few other tasks to attend to before I can attempt to install OG, so I'll leave you with wishes for a happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate the holiday, and a good day/evening to those of you who don't.
Cheers, Troy
On Thu 27 Nov 2003, Troy Davis troy@slipstream.com wrote:
I'm new to the list, I learned about OpenGuides via the perl.com article published recently.
Welcome, Troy!
So I guess that's my research task: Looking into whether there is an approval mechanism already implemented in OG.
No, there isn't. Some people have talked about it, but none of them have written any actual code. It's not something I'm personally all that excited by, so I'll be unlikely to do it while there are so many other things that need doing. I'd be happy to answer any questions from someone who wanted to write it. The feature would of course need to be optional.
I've also noticed that the OG sites listed as examples looking remarkably similar, so I'm hoping to find out how much the template system can be modified.
Some people have custom templates. I'm not too happy about this since the templates do have functionality in them and can have bugs. I can fix a bug in a template but I can't force people to install it over their custom one.
I would like to move towards this: http://csszengarden.com/
I've already noticed that OG requires PostgreSQL, whereas I've used MySQL in my work so far.
Nonononono. Where did you read that? OpenGuides can run on Postgres, MySQL and SQLite.
Kake
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