[Seattle-editorial] Re: [IMC-Tech] New website codebase

[mbc]

We at sandiego.indymedia.org just switched to Mir. Well, we're still
switching, i.e. cleaning up some problems here and there. 

I'm very happy with the software, as an admin and a developer. 

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 13:37, Max wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  > so as far as I can tell, there is a consensus that we need to adopt a
>  > new code base for the Seattle IMC web page.
> 
> :-)
> 
> Any Mir related questions can be directed to the mircoders list
> (mir-coders at lists.indymedia.org) or in the #mir irc channel. If you want 
> to try out a simple Mir installation, contact me, and I'll set one up.
> 
> > Seattle Code base evaluation wiki page:
> > http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/SeaTechCodebaseEvaluation
> 
> Mir's capabilities to fullfil your needs:
>  > * 0) keep all articles
> 
> Possible in mir. A simple non-db php script can be easily setup to 
> redirect urls to older articles. This system is used by CMI Brasil.
> IMC Portland uses a different, slightly more complex way with url 
> rewrites and a very simple java servlet.
> 
>  > * 1) improve publishing (response time, and multimedia reliability)
> 
> I think that Mir will generally answer your needs in this respect...
> 
>  > * 2) improve search
> 
> Right now, Mir probably has the best search functionality. Try searching
> on the portland site ( http://portland.indymedia.org ) or the uk site
> ( http://indymedia.org.uk )
> 
>  > * 3) new features like calendar, themes or topic pages
> 
> Mir has extensive topic-page functionality. Very customizable (look at
> the portland site). Themes are different colorschemes? CMI Brasil uses
> that, though it's a bit complicated to set up. Mir lacks a calendar at
> this moment. Though many sites use a protest.net calendar, and there are
> possibilities to integrate the 2 a bit.
> 
>  > * 4) allow users to choose theme
> 
> Mir works basically with a fully static site. Setting up something like 
> this would be quite hard.
> 
>  > * 5) ease customization
> 
> Mir has probably the most extensive customization possibilities, but at
> a price: it's not very easy to do. But Mir has excellent customer 
> support ;-).
> 
> > What sites are running what code:
> > http://www.bandwidthcoop.org/imc/tech/WhatSitesAreRunningWhat
> 
> This list is very old. I compiled a list automatically:
> http://dev11.mir.dnsalias.net/codebases.shtml
> 
> Greetings,
> Max
> 
> 
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