Disorderly Enormous Resources

[Robert Stoffers]

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 23:58 -0700, ychen wrote:
> Matthew Thomas wrote:
> > On 17 Sep, 2005, at 5:08 AM, ychen wrote:
> > 
> >> ...
> >> Ubuntu is great, but the resources looks like chaos, forums/mailing 
> >> lists/wiki/IRC/newsgroups. Can we have something which can consolidate 
> >> all of these resources?
> >> ...
> >> and we can see everything in one place (eg. we can see messages which 
> >> are from forums in newgroup).
> >> ...
> > 
> > 
> > That's an interesting idea. Perhaps you could write up some details of 
> > how this would work.
> > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ForumsCommunityIntegration>
> > 
> > One component could be to set up Web feeds (Atom/RSS) for the forums, 
> > and for RecentChanges in the wiki, so you can read them alongside the 
> > mailing lists and newsgroups in a program like Thunderbird.
> > 
> > Another component could be a search function that searches the official 
> > site, the wiki, the forums, and the mailing list archives all at once.
> > 
> >> So that we can use a unique ID such as email address to get into all,
> > 
> > 
> > There's nothing stopping you from using the same e-mail address for the 
> > mailing list, the wiki, and the newsgroups.
> > 
> >> Otherwise, we have to remember too many ID and passwords.
> >> ...
> > 
> > 
> > There's nothing stopping you from using the same password, too (though 
> > it's not necessarily a good idea).
> > 
> > Great subject line, by the way. :-)
> > 
> 
> Disorderly | Dis*or"der*ly |
> 
>      1. Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged;
>        immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly
>        state.
>        1913 Webster
> 
> Not a bad word, eh? or language problem? ;)
> 
> What I mean is: can we consolidate all of this information in one 
> database? The wiki uses MySQL? I don't know what the forum is based on. 
> Newsgroup's data can be transfer to a database? and mailing list? If we 
> can build all of these resources on one database, we can share the 
> information from different resources when we get in any of input 
> systems. --That's only an idea. May be we need it.
> 
> 

The easiest way to do this I think might be using one of the many CMS's
out there that include forums, mailing lists, wiki and more into the one
package. There is a lot of content that would most likely have to be
converted to the new package, and even then you won't get Launchpad as
part of this because it is a separate thing altogether. Check out the
options at http://www.opensourcecms.com/

I am more then willing to help out with such a project, I have a bit of
experience in setting these things up, and I know a bit of PHP. 

Regards,

Robert Stoffers


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Robert Stoffers
Author/Maintainer - Ubuntu FAQ Guide
Email - rstoffers at gmail.com