[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] evergreen-ils.org updated, CMS question

[Karen G. Schneider]

Over the last month I've been rewriting some of the documents on 
evergreen-ils.org and on the Evergreen Dokuwiki. I now have some 
revisions to make to the pages I've revised (isn't it always that way) 
but wanted to let you all know this much has been done.

See: http://evergreen-ils.org and (linked from it in various places) the 
suite of six documents:

http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:evergreen_faq_1

The one observation I have is that now half the website is wikified and 
half is not. I leave it to your imagination which half is easier to 
maintain... enables faster changes... is more collaborative... etc. ;) 

I'll blog this, but to start with the list: in terms of community 
involvement, a great non-development task for someone out there would be 
to heave evergreen-ils.org into a CMS of some kind. The wiki is a sort 
of CMS... but Plone, Drupal, etc. could be used.

I optimistically think this could be a great student internship--maybe 
because I've taught as a library-school adjunct several times and 
supervised slave lab--I mean, student projects that were beneficial to 
everyone. But someone with some CMS and web design savvy could be a huge 
benefit to the Evergreen project. (Why not I, you ask? Even though I did 
manage to get Drupal up and running on a personal site for 
experimentation's sake, I have no design sense -- the same reason I 
haven't tweaked the CSS.) 

One last comment: there are plans afoot to upgrade Debian on 
evergreen-ils.org, which would pull the blog to at least WordPress 2.5* 
but more significantly, would also mean that Dokuwiki would be upgraded 
-- a big help as members of the Evergreen community work on 
documentation, as the old version is hard to work with.

-- 
| Karen G. Schneider
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