My 0.02 cents

[Lior Kesos]

Hi Shlomi,
Let's put all of this in prospective.
Last week, when I saw the "new" august penguins site was implemented  
in drupal I volunteered to manage the site (or at least bootstrap it)  
for hamakor.
I felt it can be implemented better then it was and I am not a  
"clueless soldier" in this particular domain as you mentioned in your  
mail.
I did not take the discussion to migrate the site to drupal (so I will  
not defend it) - but I do see the logic in letting people that are not  
html/css savvy contribute to the site (especially if they wish to  
integrate media later on like pictures or movies.
I disagree that drupal is overkill for this, but it does mean that  
other people will be able to contribute to the site (which I think is  
a good thing).
I also see a clear implementation path to charging memberships online,  
Issuing newsletters to members (not subscribers - I know many members  
that do not read discussions at hamakor) and many additional issues.

I think that most of your comments are valid and I'd be glad to try to  
address them.
I also think that learning drupal will probably minimize your free  
time because there is a great demand for experienced drupalers - see http://drupal.org.il/wanted
Instead of looking at this as a threat look at it as a opportunity to  
learn a new technology and to expand your freelancing capabilities.

Now enough for the meta discussion - let's be a bit more operative.
> 1. Does not point to the rest of the conferences.
If we can reessemble the last site in an archive.august.penguin.org.il  
or maybe august.penguin.org.il/old or something like that I'd be glad  
to link there. (Shachar or you - shlomi please send a link so I can  
link to it.)
>
> 2. Does not reside at http://august.penguin.org.il/AUG2008/
Fixed.
>
> 3. Is too damn wide - gets cut in Konqueror 3.5.x in many  
> resolutions and
> generates a horizontal scrollbar in other browsers.
Which browsers, which resolutions, Which OS's
The width is standard for a 1024x768 resolution (960px) if you can  
prove that hamakor surfers have more then 10% that use 800x600 I'll be  
happy to change it (my bet is 3%).
>
> 4. Has a login form - what for?
Fixed, Block has been taken off - Admins and users please login in  
august.penguin.org.il/user
>
> 5. Suffers from these problems:
>
> 6. Does not have meaningful URLs.
Fixed

best regards
Lior


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