[aclug-local] Re: ACLUG Website - which way to go...

[Tom Hull <thull2@xxxxxxx>]

Anne McCadden wrote:
> Thats great and I will try that.  Do you need any more help with 
> anything with the website?

Yes. Doing just about everything. Think a little bit about what you'd
like to do. The "scratch your own itch" principle says you should
look at the website and decide that missing feature you personally
most want to see done, or what broken feature you personally most
want to see fixed. So that's one way to think about it. Then write
me back directly and we'll talk and figure something out.

Same for anyone else who has the itch. (No doubt Dale would welcome
help on the neuralmatrix/postnuke alternate website prototype.)

 > Now that I am not going to be working with
> the Second Saturday Sale, then I would like to do something that will 
> help use and learn about linux more.  I'm playing with MySQL right now. 
>  ttyl ~Anne

The notwerk/openacs website uses PostgreSQL. Most of what you know
about MySQL is useful with PostgreSQL and vice versa.

> Tom Hull wrote:
> 
>>Anne McCadden wrote:
>>
>>>How about if we put various hardware in the classified ads of notwerks. 
>>>Who do we need to notify to make this happen.  ~Anne
>>
>>You should be able to do it yourself: go to the http://aclug.notwerk.net/
>>homepage, click on "Classifieds", click on "Stuff for Sale", click on
>>"Place An Ad", click on "Hardware / Computer Parts." If you have registered
>>and cannot do that, there's some permission glitch that we need to track
>>down.
>>
>>One slightly puzzling thing is that when you go to "Stuff for Sale" it
>>shows you "Recent Ads" but not ad categories. Turns out that it will
>>always show you the most recent 5 (configurable) ads, but only shows
>>the categories if there are more ads than are show in the Recent Ads
>>list. Since there are currently only 2 ads, the categories aren't shown.
>>
>>Also note that the "Add/Edit Alert" link lets you get mail when new ads
>>are posted, or periodic digests of new ads.
>>
>>One more note: the full text search isn't working on the ACLUG site. I
>>have it working here -- the difference being that I was able to install
>>pltcl locally but not on the aclug.notwerk.net machine. Someone should
>>file a bug report on that. (OK, I filed the bug report, #4.)

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