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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

The rest of the content of this mail can be ignored, but anyway, my
feelings on this.

<flame>
We MUST simplify the number of sites. I know of the following that are
related to DHIS

1) hisp.info
2) dhis2.org
3) dhis2.com
4) phitoolkit.org
5) openhealthconsortium.org
6) http://208.76.222.114
7) hispkerala.org
8) dhismobile.info
9) launchpad


I think there are probably others. I realize that some of these sites
serve different purposes to different groups, but IMHO, DHIS is a
great product that suffers from really poor marketing. Having
information spread across all these different sites spreads thin
resources and creates confusion among people trying to access
information on DHIS. We, as a community, need to consolidate all of
this information into a single portal at the least, and a single site
at best.

I honestly think, if there is anyway, to create a single site, that
has documentation, demos, links to the source code, a wiki for more
informal documentation, a forum, etc...this would be the way to go. I
personally favour dhis2.org because it sounds less commercial than
dhis2.com. Most people have no idea what HISP is (I have been trying
to figure out for years but still have not a very good grip on it
either!) and it really does not matter for those using the prodcuct
DHIS2 or 1.4, born out of HISP.

I

I think if the university can host the site, this would be the best
way to ensure sustainability. It is just a DNS record. After all the
investment the university has put into the product, they should be
able to host a DNS record after all.

</flame>

OK, I am done. Lets get a single site with all the information in one place.

Regards,
jason




On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On the topic of dhis2.org, I would appreciate some input on hisp.info. I
> would like to retire the old Confluence wiki soon.
>
> We do get quite a number of hits to that domain, so we should point it to
> dhis2.org. But there may still be useful stuff there that must be replicated
> on dhis2.org first? What is still of value?
>
> However, in my opinion, we do still need somewhere which people can edit. I
> am personally happy to do my edits at http://phitoolkit.org (and will give
> write access to anyone who asks).
> Or we could add a blog or wiki module to Drupal.
>
> Knut
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jason
>>
>> 2009/10/28 Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Seems like the both work.
>>>
>>> I had another question regarding the links to the Documentation guide
>>> on this node. I have just updated the guide, but now the PDF on the
>>> site is out of sync with the documentation source.
>>>
>>> I would think that there must be some plugin that allows drupal to
>>> render DocBook XML in the site. Is it possible to do this?
>>
>> Don't know drupal well enough but in principle this is possible.  The
>> docbook rendering is all done through xslt which can certainly be pushed
>> around through PHP, though the amount of rendering required would be heavy
>> to do on each request.
>>>
>>> Another possibility would be somehow to produce continuous builds of
>>> the documentation, so that the documentation is always up to date when
>>> linked against the site. I think this would be possible through a
>>> relatively minor shell script.
>>>
>>> Suggestions? I can have a stab at constructing the shell script if it
>>> is possible on the machine which houses the site.
>>
>> Up till now we  haven't had shell access to the site.  Now I think we do I
>> think we might be able to make a plan.
>>
>> Regards
>> Bob
>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jason
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Ola Hodne Titlestad <olatitle@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>> > 2009/10/28 Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> >>
>>> >> OK.  Enabled Path module (Clean URLs were already enabled) and now
>>> >> when
>>> >> you edit a page there is an option to set the "user friendly" url.
>>> >>
>>> >> So before where we had http://dhis2.org/node/9 we now have
>>> >> http://dhis2.org/documentation. ; Cool.
>>> >>
>>> > Will both continue to work ( I can see they are working right now as
>>> > least)?
>>> > I have been using the node-based URLs around the wiki.
>>> >
>>> > Ola
>>> > ---------
>>> >
>>> >>
>>> >> Cheers
>>> >> Bob
>>> >>
>>> >> 2009/10/28 Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> OK.  Will take a quick look.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> BTW came across this article yesterday regarding REST, Drupal and
>>> >>> Xproc:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/03/xproc-xml-pipelines-and-restfu.html
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Cheers
>>> >>> Bob
>>> >>>
>>> >>> 2009/10/28 Jo Størset <storset@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Den 28. okt. 2009 kl. 11.56 skrev Bob Jolliffe:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>> I think there is a drupal config option to enable clean urls.  And
>>> >>>>> it
>>> >>>>> depends upon Apache's modrewrite.  pathauto is just extra sugar to
>>> >>>>> auto
>>> >>>>> magically do the clean url naming for you.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Cheers
>>> >>>>> Bob
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Jo are you "adminning" the site?  I can take a quick look if you
>>> >>>>> like.
>>> >>>>>  I have the password.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> I don´t have the password, so go ahead :)
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Jo
>>> >>
>>> >>
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> --
> Cheers,
> Knut Staring
>