Forum OpenACS Q&A: Sharing customized OpenACS installations

Hi,

as novice to OpenACS programming (although running a small installation) who is nevertheless eager to learn, I think it would be very helpful to see customized code / installations as examples and inspirations how things are done by the "pandits" out there, using the different packages, the templating system, the api, creating new packages etc.

For example, we want to use the openacs toolkit with postgres as backend to manage our addresses (now some 30.000 or so), memberships, newsletter subscriptions, refugee aid program etc. in an intranet of a non-profit organisation; instead of using MS-Access or some other proprietary and closed stuff.

Is there any place on openacs.org or somewhere else where customized installations, packages etc. are shared?

Thanks to all

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Posted by Bjorn Thor Jonsson on

Hi Christof.

The customized installation running the openacs.org website is available via CVS by issuing:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@openacs.org:/cvsroot co openacs.org-dev
Also browsable here: http://cvs.openacs.org/cvs/openacs.org-dev/

Here is some discussion on the setup: https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=84297

There is a new package development tutorial available: https://openacs.org/doc/openacs-4-6-2/tutorial.html

I don't know of any central place on openacs.org for sharing of (customized) packages, except the contrib directory in CVS. Such a place would be cool. Something like the Lotus Sandbox maybe?

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Posted by Don Baccus on
As we get 4.6 behind us and move towards 5.0, we've been talking about various download repositories we might make available on the site.  We've talked about a contrib repository (which would contain stuff from our CVS contrib directory.)

Maybe a repository for whole customized sites would be interesting.  I wonder how many people would be interested?  Certainly useful would be customized master templates used by various sites.

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Posted by Christof Spitz on
Hi Bjorn, thanks for that. Didnt know the whole openacs.org installation is availabe. That certainly helps.

Don, sharing the master templates is a great idea, other code too (although I haven't much to share, I must admit --am more on the taking side).