[OpenID - Eu] openideurope.eu website realigning

[Pádraic Brady]

Hi everyone,

Refreshing the Europe website would be great. If I can help in anyway let me know (I'm a PHP/Applications developer primarily). Wish I could get time to get to one of those Dinners sometime soon!

I would not suggest a Wiki by itself - largely since a Wiki is good for community documentation but is not always the best for the initial public facing pages. Having a wiki for such things as ad-hoc pages, documentation and events would be fine however. I'd suggest something like Wordpress or indeed Typo3 (easier than Joomla - and an expert in the ranks with Ekkehard ;)) which needs minimal management. I'm largely PHP focused to Robert's Java here. If we used a versioning system (e.g. Subversion) we could even go completely to plain HTML/Markdown in multiple languages for the static website - and have a wiki for other dynamically produced content. Supporting multi-languages seems essential - only the UK and Ireland are English dominant.

I think one idea that should be considered is getting all the OpenID EU members and users providing news and/or blog posts somewhere. Something as simple as aggregating (Planet style) tagged RSS feeds so visitors know what the European communities are up to in OpenID. Getting the word out and having tutorials/other sourced from member blogs could be a useful asset. At present it's difficult to know what's happening in another country without deliberately searching for it. I wouldn't even ask it only be English - I'm at least comfortable in reading French and German (besides Irish Gaelic and English).

Best,
Paddy (the Irish Representative for those who don't know me ;-))
 
Pádraic Brady

http://blog.astrumfutura.com
http://www.patternsforphp.com
OpenID Europe Foundation


----- Original Message ----
From: Ekkehard Gümbel <guembel at naw.info>
To: eu at openid.net
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:03:42 PM
Subject: Re: [OpenID - Eu] openideurope.eu website realigning


Hi Robert and all,
and "cheers" for a start, since I never posted on this list before.
<introduction>
Frankly, I have not been involved with OpenID very much in the past but
 am 
perfectly willing to support it where I can. For a living I am mostly 
working with the TYPO3 CMS, and only recently presented OpenID and our 
OpenID plugin for TYPO3 to the public at the TYPO3 conference, see e.g.
 my 
blog post on 
http://www.naw.info/blogs/typo3security/2007/09/22/t3con07-openid-fur-typo3-veroffentlicht/ 
(sorry, it's german...)
</introduction>

Anyways: We do quite a lot of TYPO3 projects and we easily could
 sponsor 
both design/setup and hosting of the site. Let me know if you guys are 
interested.

Besides that, I am very much looking forward to get to know some people
 in 
Berlin!
greets
/Ekki

----------------------------
Ekkehard Gümbel
http://www.naw.info
----------------------------


eu-bounces at openid.net schrieb am 14.10.2007 22:37:41:
> Hi Snorri,
> 
> A wiki or CMS (e.g. Joomla) would be great in order to allow the 
> representative of the european countries to fill country specific or 
> also general content.
> What are your opition on Joomla or do you have any preference on a 
> Wiki type? As I'm more java related, I know JSPWiki guite well. 
> However, in terms of a Wiki, it is probalby not the most powerfull 
> one. I'm just getting used on Joomla at the moment. Do we have any 
> member that is good in GUI design that could assist in creating a CMS
 
> or Wiki template?
> 
> What about the server. If it would help, I could setup some stuff on 
> my 'home-server'. Or do we already have some server inftrastructure 
> in place to be used for openideurope?
> 
> Would be a good topic to talk in Berlin :)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Robert
> 
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