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Linux-Announce Digest #779
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Linux-Announce Digest #779, Volume #4 Mon, 24 May 2004 11:13:03 EDT
Contents:
INDIA-GOA: Making a web-site isn't tough... if you have the right ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
[SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings (paulf)
[ADMIN] comp.os.linux.announce report for Mon May 24 00:05:04 CDT 2004 (cola-admin@stump.algebra.com)
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Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 10:31:49 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: INDIA-GOA: Making a web-site isn't tough... if you have the right
MAKING A WEB-SITE ISN'T TOUGH... IF YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TOOLS
>From Frederick Noronha
GOA, India, May 23: It's easier to get online, but isn't making a web-site
and keeping it updated really an uphill struggle? Not really, if you make
use of the right mix of technology available and the optimum solutions,
says Dr Gurunandan Bhat, former head of Goa University's Computer Science
Department.
Speaking at a GNU/Linux users' group meeting jointly organised by the India
Linux Users' Group (Goa) and the Goa Science Centre Panjim at Miramar on the
weekend, Dr Bhat said managing websites can be a difficult task if the wrong
tools were chosen.
"Managing a website can be a very complex task. The site I update has 370
individual pages. HTML (the earlier-used tool) is not a very nice way for
making sites," said Bhat.
Currently the Chief Technical Officer of Synapse -- an innovative Dona
Paula-based institution which works on media, technology and design -- Dr
Bhat introduced the audience to 'Movable Type'.
"Content Management Solution (CMS) tools allow the web-page designer, the
coder and the content-writer to work independently of one another, yet as a
team, without each one necessarily having to know each other's job," he
said.
While some CMS solutions cost over Rs 1 crore -- as in the case of those
installed by large Indian newspapers or even sites like sharekhan.com -- Dr
Bhat said others were available with their source code and for the asking,
thanks to the Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) movement.
He explained his own use of PHP and PHP-templates as a good CMS solution to
build the architecture of India website for architect Gerard Da Cunha. He
said that though the site contains only a handful of pages, every page looks
different and doesn't suffer monotony either.
Dr Bhat argued that the Internet was first driven by the scientific
community in the 'seventies and 'eighties, and then by the business boom in
the 'nineties.
It was now being driven by individuals, he said, pointing out how weblogs
(or 'blogs' -- the sometimes trivial, sometimes very useful diaries many
individuals were keeping on the Net today) were becoming increasingly
popular.
This, he suggested, implied that the task of creating websites needed to be
made into a simpler and less-technical process for those on the 'content'
creation side.
"The individual has taken over the Internet today," he said, pointing to
sites like livejournal.com, which allow anyone to put up a blog of their
own. Dr Bhat maintains his own blog at codesutra.net
He pointed to ventures like slashdot.com, the collective blog of the geek
community. "It's great, except when it starts spreading rumours," he
remarked.
Dr Bhat said he found Movable Type a "really beautiful" software for ease of
use. It was created by the team 6apart.com, which included the techie of
Indian origin, Anil Dash.
Taking his talk to a tech plane, Dr Bhat showed how Movable Type could be
converted to look like an 'enterprise-level' website, taking care of all the
requirements of the business world, not just giving the simple, diary-like
format of a blog.
He advised youngsters to "think CSS" from the very start, while going into
web-design. He regretted that the world's second-largest country, India, had
just "four to five" prominent blogs, including Rajesh Jain's weblog on
technology at http://www.emergic.org
ILUG-Goa has its meetings -- open to all, and without membership fees -- on
the second Saturday of each month in Margao or Verna and on the fourth
Saturdays in Panjim. Further details are available on
http://www.ilug-margao.org or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa
ENDS
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From: paulf@quillandmouse.com (paulf)
Subject: [SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings
Date: 23 May 2004 18:20:05 GMT
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* Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) *
* Meeting Schedule *
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ST PETERSBURG ********************************************
31 May 19:00-21:00 St Petersburg
(usually last Monday of each month)
St Petersburg Public Library, Main Branch
Auditorium
3745 Ninth Ave North
St Petersburg, FL 33713
727-893-7724
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#stpete for directions.
BRANDON **************************************************
3 June 20:00-22:00 Brandon
(first Thursday of each month)
Brandon Barnes & Noble
Brandon Town Center
Brandon, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#Brandon for directions.
NEW PORT RICHEY ******************************************
5 June 13:00-15:00 New Port Richey
(first Saturday of each month)
New Port Richey Public Library
(second level meeting rooms)
5939 Main St.
New Port Richey, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#npr for directions.
TAMPA ****************************************************
9 June 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second Wednesday of each month)
Student Services Bldg, Room 108
(to the northeast of the Technology Bldg)
Hillsborough Community College
Dale Mabry Campus
4001 Tampa Bay Blvd
Tampa, FL
See http://www.hccfl.edu/pollock/Docs/DM-Map.htm for directions.
DUNEDIN **************************************************
12 June 10:00-12:00 Dunedin
(usually fourth Saturday of each month)
Dunedin Public Library,
223 Douglas Ave.,
Community Room B.
Dunedin, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#dunedin for directions.
SARASOTA/BRADENTON ***************************************
16 May 18:00-21:00 Sarasota
(third Wednesday of each month)
Honeywell
8323 Lindbergh Court
Sarasota, FL
See http://www.bish.net/directions/
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ACTIVITIES:
Meetings include:
1) Presentation: As indicated.
2) Question & Answer Session.
3) Raffle and free stuff!
Bring your boxes, questions, problems, and plenty of good cheer!
(And don't forget to start your installs early!)
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 00:06:14 CST
Subject: [ADMIN] comp.os.linux.announce report for Mon May 24 00:05:04 CDT 2004
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Subject: comp.os.linux.announce report for Mon May 24 00:05:04 CDT 2004
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