[Home-on-the-range] NFBk State Web Site

[Andrew Chapman]

Hey Floyd,

I was actually thinking that a content management system would be a great
idea for the affiliate website.

In short this would be a system that would allow authorized people to make
content postings without having to worry about formatting and stuff. This
would allow us to develop a design once and then focus on content
generation/delivery in a fashion not unlike wikipedia (though with much
better access controls and without everybody seeing an "edit" link).

This would also help with the "one webmaster" problem and allow the many
people in our affiliate who are great at creating content to more easily
leverage their skills.

Examples of these systems include:
http://www.scribus.net/ (using drupal) and
http://berkeley.edu/ (running TikiWiki)

These are very simple to install as they simply require put a few files on
the server just like a regular web page, and could be maintained fairly
easily.

I think it would make building/maintaining/updating the site a lot slicker
and make it easier to integrate some of our other projects like posting our
newsletter, meeting minutes and/or convention media.

If your interested I can use my old netbook to put together a demo of a
couple of these packages for state convention so people can get a feel for
what it would look like and how it might work.

Just a thought.

--
Andrew Chapman
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