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

[Bruno Coudoin]

Just though of another tool to evaluate, wikipedia. It's the engine that
runs the famous wikipedia:
http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/features.html

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.

Hehe, one week end left for Hilaire not having to code this ;)

I have no idea how scalable is glasnost especially since it do not use a
SQL database.

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). 

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

Bruno.



Le dim 21/03/2004 à 14:17, Hilaire Fernandes a écrit :
> Hello, 
> 
> 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:
> 
> - Concerning the main informational web site. We want something more
> dynamic with neat features to translate easily the web site in various languages.
> 
> - 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
> projects. 
> 
> 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
> specific board. 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Of course we can extend this to all software projects. You got the point
> about what we could do.
> 
> So far we have look at Spip and Glasnost
> (http://glasnost.entrouvert.org). 
> 
> As far as we have looked it appears that Glasnost is more adapted with
> what we want to do for the following reasons:
> 
> - Glasnost translation system is quite evolved
> 
> - 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
> 
> - 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.
> 
> - It looks to me quite easy to create additional publishing object type
> and we will for sure need that.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Hilaire
> 
> 
> 
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