Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-boosters (73 mails)

[Thomas Schmidt <tschmidt@xxxxxxx>]

The portal I worked on in the last hackweek is here:
http://gitorious.org/opensuse/myopensuse

It's also running on buildserviceapi, but I think there has no
domain name been set up yet.

Greetings

On 20.04.2010 08:35, Robert Lihm wrote:
> > On 20.04.2010, at 02:51, Jon Rocker wrote:
> >
> > > I had an idea this morning, so I thought I'd share it.
> > >
> > > I spoke with Rupert Horstkötter about this, and he advised me to
> > > contact you.
> > >
> > > I think it would be a great benefit if we made openSUSE.org
> > > <http://openSUSE.org> a portal along the
> > > lines of something like iGoogle. Perhaps using ajax or JSON, but
> > > something where
> > > the user can completely customize the layout and the content. This
> > > would be more
> > > attractive and more appealing to users, whether new or old.
> > > Developers could
> > > customize their page for development news and info and such, and
> > > other users
> > > could customize it as they want it. Besides,I don't think any other
> > > distro has
> > > done this before, and it be awesome to do as it could then be a suitable
> > > homepage.
>
> On 20.04.2010, at 08:09, Andreas Demmer wrote:
>
> > ----------  Weitergeleitete Nachricht  ----------
> >
> > Betreff: Re: openSUSE Portal
> > Datum: Dienstag 20 April 2010, 07:52:51
> > Von: Andreas Demmer <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> > An:  Jon Rocker <Jon.Rocker@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Jon.Rocker@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
> > Kopie:  rhim@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rhim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Jon Rocker wrote:
> > > I think it would be a great benefit if we made openSUSE.org
> > > <http://openSUSE.org> a portal along
> > > the lines of something like iGoogle
> >
> > I like the idea! BUT this will be lots of work and would keep us from
> > using a 
> > standard content management solution like it is planned on the long
> > run. IMHO 
> > we would need to code most of the functionality by hand but could
> > build upon 
> > some standard framework, maybe Zend Framework or else.
> >
> > Robert, what do you think?
> >
> > Greets,
> > Andreas
>
> Yes, the idea is great! And yes, it's a lot of work; but that's not a
> show-stopper :-)
> We had a similar idea in discussion some month ago, but right now -i
> think- nobody is working on it. The idea came up in the context of the
> "All under one umbrella"-project [1].
>
> @Pavol/@Boosters: Do you know if there is something going on in this
> direction?
>
> In general, I would not replace the default landing-page
> (http://www.opensuse.org) with such a portal. But I think it would be
> cool for loged-in users. So they would have there own "dashboard". This
> would be a benefit.
> It should be possible to contribute own widgets ... and/or hijack
> igoogle widgets. That would be pretty social-communityish, wouldn't it?
>
> Is somebody volunteering to make a proposal?
>
> Thank your for sharing Jon!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robert
>
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>
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