<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello everyone,<br><br><br></div><div>We (the COIN-OR Foundation) are in the process of designing a new Web site. We have a prototype, but need help with polishing and a few of the technical details. The general specs are below. If you have experience developing Web sites and are interested in helping us develop ours, please contact me off-line. <br>
<br></div><div>Cheers,<br><br></div><div>Ted<br><br>========================================================================<br></div><div><br>General overview:<br><br>The COIN-OR foundation is a non-profit
foundation that hosts 50+ open source software projects. Currently, the
Web site is hand-crafted HTML (<a href="http://www.coin-or.org" target="_blank">www.coin-or.org</a>).
Pages are hosted in subversion and checked out from there. Pages
describing individual project are rendered from XML (see, e.g., <a href="https://projects.coin-or.org/SYMPHONY/browser/conf/projDesc.xml" target="_blank">https://projects.coin-or.org/SYMPHONY/browser/conf/projDesc.xml</a> and <a href="http://www.coin-or.org/projects/SYMPHONY.xml" target="_blank">http://www.coin-or.org/projects/SYMPHONY.xml</a>). Project source code is hosted in subversion with TRAC providing an integrated wiki and bug tracking (see, e.g., <a href="https://projects.coin-or.org/SYMPHONY" target="_blank">https://projects.coin-or.org/SYMPHONY</a>). A mailman list serve is used for support, user feedback, etc. (see <a href="http://list.coin-or.org/mailman/listinfo/" target="_blank">http://list.coin-or.org/mailman/listinfo/</a>). Individual projects get Web space in the form of pages checked our from subversion (see, e.g., <a href="https://projects.coin-or.org/SYMPHONY/browser/html" target="_blank">https://projects.coin-or.org/SYMPHONY/browser/html</a> and <a href="http://www.coin-or.org/SYMPHONY/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.coin-or.org/SYMPHONY/index.htm</a>)<br>
<br>The general idea is to give the site a complete makeover to give it a
more modern look and feel, social media integration, Web *.*
capabilities. We implemented a test site in Wordpress to play with
ideas.<br><br><a href="http://wptest.coin-or.org/" target="_blank">http://wptest.coin-or.org/</a><br>
<br>Specific design goals:<br><br>1. Move site to a CMS that will allow
easier maintenance, ability to grant edit permission to individual
pages, ability to edit in the browser, etc. Currently, Wordpress seems
to do all we need and we are familiar with Wordpress. We're open to
other suggestions, however.<br>
2. With the move to CMS, upgrade look and feel of the site and add capabilities, as follows:<br>--
Implement forums for support and user feedback. Should include the
ability to have general high-level forums, as well as individual forums
for each project. Users should be able to create accounts on the site
and post to the forums. Forums should be moderated (or at least should
have the ability to moderate.<br>
-- Upgrade TRAC to the latest version, integrate support for git, and integrate the look and feel into the overall Web site.<br>--
Implement single sign-on for the Web site (forums), the TRAC site,
subversion. and git (so far, the best solution for this seems to be
OpenID). Support ability to require e-mail address for valid
registration and to capture basic demographic information (again, OpenID
seems the easiest option). <br>
-- Implement download form that asks downloaders to fill out a form with
basic demographic information (possibly requiring some sort of account
creation).<br>-- Support the ability to auto-generate project
information pages from XML templates checked out from the subversion
repos of individual projects, as with current site.<br>
-- Support blog(s) for posting news items. Each project should have its
own blog, but these individual blogs could be hosted on the sites of
individual projects (see 3 below).<br>-- Support an events calendar.<br>3. Support the creation of individual sites for each project using the same CMS (Wordpress allows this).<br>
4. Ideally, create a separate site for the foundation itself.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dr. Ted Ralphs<br>Associate Professor, Lehigh University<br>(610) 628-1280<br>ted 'at' lehigh 'dot' edu<br><a href="http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~ted" target="_blank">coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~ted</a><br>
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