Forum OpenACS Q&A: Volunteer wanted for a specific documentation task

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1: Volunteer wanted for a specific documentation task
Posted by Caroline Meeks on 12/21/05 04:14 AM
We need documentation for beginning level programmers/advanced graphic artists on how to change the look and feel of OpenACS.

I think this should include:

• A detailed walk through of blank, default and site masters.
• What variables are available
• Advice on when you should modify which master
• A detailed walk through of the CSS files used in OpenACS
• A discussion of dotLRN-master
• Links to the acs-templating documentation
• Links to examples of OpenACS sites with different looks.

I think it should be done as a page in the Wiki Book. Probably a set of pages linked from this page.

https://openacs.org/wiki/Setting%20up%20and%20administering%20your%20website

Dave and I talked about doing it but if it goes on our ToDo list it isn’t going to be done any time soon. Does anyone who has taught a class on OpenACS have material that covers this area? Is there a volunteer who would like to take on this task who has successfully modified the look of an OpenACS site? Dave and I will help and advise as needed.

This project is not only valuable to the OpenACS community, the “client” driving this request is a developer who is working for some very worthy nonprofit organizations helping inner city youth. If he can learn, and teach others to easily brand OpenACS they can provide extensive functionality at a very reasonable cost.

Thanks
Caroline

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2: Re: Volunteer wanted for a specific documentation task (response to 1)
Posted by Al-Faisal El-Dajani on 12/21/05 08:55 AM
Hey Caroline,

I am up for that volunteer task. One problem though, i never really got down with the OpenACS look and feel...
So if you provide me with some material and guidance, you've got yourself a volunteer :)

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3: Re: Re: Volunteer wanted for a specific documentation task (response to 2)
Posted by Caroline Meeks on 12/21/05 04:44 PM
Thanks Al-Faisal,

I see you've already been working on the book.

I suggest the following.
Go ahead and set up an outline in the wiki and read over what we have in acs-templating.

https://openacs.org/doc/acs-templating/
https://openacs.org/doc/acs-templating/guide/master.html

With that knowlege you should be able to start discecting the default, site, and blank and dotlrn masters that come out of the box. Feel free to ask questions and ask for comments as you work here, or by email. Daveb is usually on #openacs, can you use irc? I think Malte mentioned its blocked in Jordan. I'll also email you our AIMs.

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4: Re: Re: Re: Volunteer wanted for a specific documentation task (response to 3)
Posted by Al-Faisal El-Dajani on 12/22/05 09:40 AM
Great.. i'll get started.

Also, we do have IRC in jordan, and i sometimes do pop up on the OpenACS channel (I bugged Dave the other day with some PDF conversion stuff 😊 )...

One thing though, Here in Jordan we are GMT+2. So what is the time difference between us? because if you are in the United States, then we need to pre-arrange sessions to talk with each other, since the time difference would start at 7 hours (Amman-New York time difference), and i usually disconnect at about 9 PM GMT.

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5: Re: Volunteer wanted for a specific documentation task (response to 1)
Posted by Ben Koot on 12/22/05 03:24 PM
Al Faisal,

Here's a useful tool to convert times and synchronize meetings. http://www.timeanddate.com/

Good luck
Ben