Hi Raed,

You are welcome to take this job (at least from my point of view). Anyway,
whoever takes this job, please consult the Campsite feature list on
http://bugs.campware.org - chose Campsite. Please consult with Campsite
developers on new features in order not to split the source code tree and to
create patches that are hard to maintain. We'll be glad to include any new
feature in Campsite.

Regards,
Mugur

--- raed@tamamtech.com wrote:
> If no one else needs to take this job, my company would love to have it. We
> are now spreading through the Middle East and we would love to get some
> african campsite users too.
>
> If someone wants to take this job, please reply to the list during the next
> day, otherwise I'll contact Kris to get more details and start working on his
> site.
>
> thanks
> raed
>
>
>
>
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> Raed M Neshiewat
> General Manager
> TamamTech, Inc
>
> Office: +962 6 461 7474
> Fax: +962 6 463 0238
> Cell: +962 79 57 58 59 60
> http://www.tamamtech.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Douglas.Arellanes@mdlf.org
> To: campsite-dev@campware.org
> Cc: kris@namibian.com.na
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:25 PM
> Subject: [campsite-dev] Re:Custom Website
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> This request was sent to us from Windhoek, Namibia, from a person
> interested in installing Campsite and getting some templates made. Any of you
> system integrators on the list interested in the work?
>
> doug
>
>
> ----- Forwarded by Douglas Arellanes/Mdlf on 05/18/2005 10:22 AM -----
> kris (by way of kris > 05/18/2005 10:04 AM
>
>
> To: contact@campware.org
> cc:
> Subject: Re:Custom Website
>
>
>
> Hi
> Im reposting this email as I think everyone at MDLF may have been out of
> the
> office from May Day till now and my first mail may have been lost in the
> post?
>
>
> To whom it may concern.
> Im writing from the Namibian Newspaper, a daily national newspaper based in
> Windhoek Namibia. I met Douglas Arellanes about a year ago at an IT
> 'summit'
> called Highway Africa, in Grahamstown, South Africa. He introduced a group
> of
> us to some of the issues around opensource software particularly 'total
> cost'
> etc. He also showed us the Campware CMS, Campsite.
> I tried to do an install later that year, but perhaps because of lack of
> time
> and persistence wasn't able to get the CMS running on Red Hat. I recently
> tried a new version (2.18) on Mandrake and with the prompting of Mugur Rus
> was able to get a clean install running. I have experimented with the
> template files available from the site and read through the online
> documentation.
> I have (in a rather spartan way) got it to emulate the 'look and feel' of
> our
> current website.
> However I cant get the full functionality of our current CMS ( a fast-CGI
> plug-in for the macintosh Webstar server called Netcloak from Maxum Dev.)
> which allows our daily upload of the Namibian Newspaper Online
> (www.namibian.com.na).
>
> This CMS is fairly straightforward, but now only runs on the deprecated OS
> 9
> platform, or at least requires a big upgrade to OSX Server and a new
> deployment tool called Iassist. I guess we could call this 'vendor-lock in'
> as any move to another platform is very difficult unless i can make the old
> content static (and OS9 illegal filenames make this quite difficult)
>
> To get to my point, are their any 2nd Party developers with the campware
> team, who could perhaps look at what our site does (its a mix of News Front
> End and 'webcrossing' Forum Software) from its front End functionality and
> design us a site which allows more graphical content and 'look and feel'
> flexibility, while still allowing what the current frontpage and other
> newspages do?
> The frontpage allows us to put Op-ed, a quote, a 'word a day', a large
> headline and various smaller headlines. Other sections allow letters (which
> are archived, but expire as links after 72 hours), news, oshiwambo (the
> main
> language here), market, international etc.
>
> I may need to refine my request in another email, but what Im asking is
> what
> the cost would be for a Campsite customisation to suit the current Namibian
> Online sites existing functionality/navigation, while allowing more varied
> changes to its look and feel, especially using campfire to place graphics.
> I feel sure that any of the team looking at the Namibian will have a bit of
> a
> laugh at the number of nested tables and the use of frames (all of which
> we'd
> like to drop), but we found diverging from the designers original template
> in
> a production environment produced some very strange effects per different
> browser and we arent trying to modify it rather to replace it entirely.
>
> Could the campware team advise?
>
> On another point....we produce an issue each day. Would the publishing
> mechanism for Campsite oblige us to scroll down many pages if after say 2-3
> years of issues, or is their a way that issues are backgrounded via
> customisation of the /priv loader.
>
> Hope Im making sense as Im once again in a round of print deadlines, and
> hence not as focused as i could be.
> Thanks for your time and hope to hear from anyone at MDLF/ Campware who
> could
> recommend a solution to our CMS issue.
>
> Kris Pate
> IT Manager
> The Namibian Newspaper
> Windhoek Namibia
> PO Box 20783
> Tel 061 279610
>
>
>


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