[Fsf-web] the website and logo issue

[Vinay Pawar]

 There seems to be a tiny bit of confusion. 
 I didn't say I would webmaster the website. 
 I'll built it such that others(including myself) 
 can maintain/webmaster it, much like the squishdot 
 kinds allows us to. 
 And by maintainence I mean articles, news and 
 other content can be posted/edited/deleted with 
 a web interface. 
 I haven't used phpnuke, squishdot, etc. 
 But I guess it would be tricky to have it generate 
 HTML like the gnu.org website. Those applications 
 tend to have the same 3 column look which I find 
 very boring. All the dynamic magic they do is great 
 but they're used too much and often when a custom 
 backend is not feasible and there's no idea for a 
 particular look'n'feel for the website. If we can 
 build a backend that is simple and does exactly what 
 we want it to do, why use squishdot's backend which 
 might be complex to customise. 
 I don't understand what kind of 'php guru' would make 
 something that others can't maintain.
 Is there a plan about what the fsf.org.in website 
 is going to contain. 
 I hope I'm more clear. 
 Thank You, 
 Vinay Pawar, 
 Pune.

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:11:41 +0530
"Nagarjuna G." <nagarjun@hbcse.tifr.res.in> wrote:
>...................
> 
> Regarding webapplications listed above and your comment, I must
> say that I disagree.  Reason: It is important to have a
> collaborative site which is maintainable by a group of people,
> instead of one web master.  Suppose if the webmaster leaves, we
> will be in no position to maintain the site, because the backend
> is not known.  When we use applications we follow a standard, and
> the content can be syndicated.  The reason why we want to use a
> product like squishdot is for this purpose.  Content grows by
> collaboration, classified, searcheable, catalogued, syndicatable,
> automatic linking, not from one single page, but from all over
> the site etc.  In what sense it is boring is not clear to me.
> 
> I am also not in favour of toomany custom applications for
> FSF-Site. Using a general application is beeter.  An example
> comes to my mind.  the web site www.freeos.com was done in php,
> and most stuff was customized by one php guru.  After he left the
> site was down for months.  That should not happen to us.
> 
>.................
> Nagarjuna
>