[Koha] Announcing ... New koha.org Website based on Plone

[Joshua Ferraro]

Hi all,

We're pleased to announce that we've nearly finished migrating
koha.org from Kea to the Plone Content Management System--the new site
should be ready to launch by the end of this week.

The new website, based on the Plone Content Management System,
provides a number of advantages over the old website:

1. User Management -- anyone can sign up and add content to koha.org
through the built-in review process. When you create an account and
log in, you can begin adding content to koha.org (NOTE: your content
will not display on the site until it has been approved by a
moderator). Here are some examples of content you can add:

    * a new library listing on the Showcase page to make your library
show up on the map
    * new Koha event from Events
    * new Koha news item from News
    * new documentation in the Documentation area

2. Built-in Translation Facilities -- Plone supports multi-language
content as well as a translation interface, which will let us provide
information about Koha in more languages, right from koha.org. If you
want koha.org available in your language or would like to volunteer to
translate koha.org, please send a request to the koha-translate list
and we'll make sure to enable that language in the interface and set
your account up to enable translations.

3. Documentation Center -- we've imported the Koha 3.0 and 3.2
Manuals, as well as added a host of other documentation types, such as
How-tos, Tutorials, FAQ, etc., and anyone can contribute to the
documentation through the built-in review process outlined above.
NOTE: LibLime will discontinue updates to the Koha Manual from the old
liblime domain location, all new Manual updates will be added to the
new koha.org site.

4. Showcase section -- highlights Koha users throughout the world
utilizing a world map, anyone can add their library using a simple
form

5. News and Events -- can now be submitted for approval by any user.

We'll be updating the DNS this weekend to launch the website and will
alert these lists when the process is complete (the old website will
continue to be available at http://old.koha.org). In the meantime, you
can check out the new site at http://new.koha.org

Many thanks to Tina Burger, Nicole Engard and Clay Fouts for their
efforts getting this new site ready, and to Paul Poulain for excellent
feedback of our first draft.

If you'd like to help out there are still a number of things that can
be done. For instance, we need help going through the archive of news
items on the Kea-based koha.org and adding those to Plone so we don't
lose that history. Also, please add your library (or libraries you
support) to the new Koha world map. Any volunteers?

Cheers,

Josh
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Joshua Ferraro                       SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
CEO                         migration, training, maintenance, support
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