Re: [Ofset-members] The OFSET web site, the next move

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:35:05 +0100
Bruno Coudoin <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Just though of another tool to evaluate, wikipedia. It's the engine that
> runs the famous wikipedia:
> http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/features.html
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Well yes, this seems a good option

> As seen in the list, it has already:
> Support for mathematical formulas using LaTeX. These are rendered as
> HTML, PNG or LaTeX source depending on user preferences.
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There is some LaTeX support in Glasnost too. Has to be thoroughly tested
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> Hehe, one week end left for Hilaire not having to code this ;)
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> I have no idea how scalable is glasnost especially since it do not use a
> SQL database.
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> If sucessfull, this project may become very popular and reach an
> audience we never had before (end user/teachers). Just for gcompris,
> there is already 1500 articles (50 activities * 30 languages).=20
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This is not a big amount of data for Glasnost

> So it's important to check the system scalability as well as
> functionnality.
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Yes

> Bruno.
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> Le dim 21/03/2004 =E0 14:17, Hilaire Fernandes a =E9crit :
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> > This week end, with Bruno Coudoin and Christophe Merlet we discussed
> > longuely about the OFSET web site issue and the features we want to
> > implement. Bascly we identified the following needs:
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> > - Concerning the main informational web site. We want something more
> > dynamic with neat features to translate easily the web site in various =
languages.
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> > - Concerning the dedicated projects of free software for education we
> > want a system able to host the projects pages and where end users can
> > very easily contribute education oriented content related to the
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> > For example if we talk about GCompris, we would like to host as today
> > the various information pages concerning the game boards, as well we
> > want end user to provide pedagogical activities sheet related to a
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> > If we talk about DrGeo, I would like the user manuel to be avalaible
> > online to be edited and translated in various languages. Also I would
> > like a section where user can contribute DrGeo geometric figure with
> > work sheet. Probably LaTeX may be need in the back end.
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> > Of course we can extend this to all software projects. You got the point
> > about what we could do.
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> > So far we have look at Spip and Glasnost
> > (http://glasnost.entrouvert.org).=20
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> > As far as we have looked it appears that Glasnost is more adapted with
> > what we want to do for the following reasons:
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> > - Glasnost translation system is quite evolved
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> > - It is able to manage group of user, which is *mandatory* in our
> > project as we want to have contributors interested to contribute to only
> > a subset of the web site and not messing with the other part
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> > - It can manage SPIP structured text and aswell reStructured text, based
> > on Docutils (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/) able to handle among
> > other thing LaTeX input.
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> > - It looks to me quite easy to create additional publishing object type
> > and we will for sure need that.
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> > What do you think?
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> > Hilaire
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