Draft specifications for OpenUsability.org

[Thomas Zander]

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On Monday 01 March 2004 10:48, Jan Muehlig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > I had a look at www.openusability.org and it already looks great. Some
> > of the action of the first round described in the draft seem to
> > already be done. That's good so we can proceed to get something done.
>
> The current portal was set up by Jutta in a few hours, in PostNuke.
> PostNuke's structur (as far is I know) is function based, not project
> based. In the next step, we need something that is project based (as
> described in the draft). There may be a chance that PostNuke has a
> module that offers this, but it is not really checked yet. Alternatives
> coult be Zope or others. The question is: does it make sense to modify
> an existing platform or to write something from (nearly) scratch.
> Suggestions highly welcomed.

Without experience on what this will shape into I'm not sure the effort is 
worth it.
My suggestion would be to create a very open structure (html or text or 
something would even be fine) for some time untill the whole gets 
clearer..

Currently the pages just need content :)

oh; and some links don't work. The margins (around the pages themselves) 
are also way too small..

> As Datschge pointed out, we need a standard. The KDE-report format
> (developed by Aaron?) is pretty good, but the XML makes some trouble.
> The platform can currently not cope with XML, so either we get this
> fixed or we have to change the format until we find a solution.
> Therefore please wait for the next mail from Ellen where she gives more
> details. After that, start publishing!

Its actually quite easy to convert XML to just about anything you want; the 
XMLs we received some time ago on this list were hand-labour I think since 
they were not well-formatted.
I think a small UI application to edit these reports and a xslt to convert 
them to (for example) html on the webserver will take that to a new level.

As many of you know; I am a programmer, but have not touched C++ for quite 
some time now; if the need is there, I can create a Java (Swing) GUI to 
display and edit those reports.

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Thomas Zander
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