Hi all,
Speaking for Musea Technologies, I'm pleased to finally get around to
announcing Urban Parks Online,
http://urbanparks.pps.org
a new live OpenACS site. The site went live officially on 4/1, and
is now breathing on its own. It is regularly used by a small but
growing community of urban park professionals and advocates. It has
tons of content that was uploaded and is maintained by completely
nontechnical admins. This first edition is primarily about seven
custom DBs, a CMS, and a many-to-one forum system. They've used our
system to upload tons of content. Most of it is for "park geeks",
but there's fun for the public in the photos and descriptions under
"Great Park Places".
The client is now starting to really see the light of community-based
web sites, so look for improvements to collaboration on the site over
the coming months. (i.e., turning on more of OpenACS!). UPO is a
subsite of the Project for Public Spaces -- compare
http://www.pps.org for "Before"-and-"After"-the-beauty-makeover
pics!)
Credits:
Kudos to Luke Pond, who did critical core coding. Among other
things, he put together the guts of a custom CMS, from scratch and
File Manager, in under two weeks! Everything you see with "topics"
in the URL is being served by the CMS. Also, most photos are being
served by his "general-images" module, a nice bit that would be worth
releasing if not obviated by OpenACS4. Most of the rest of the
coding is my fault. Logan Billingham, our designer and html/adp'er,
composed and refined pretty much every single templated page,
uncounted hours of great work. Thanks also to Talli and Jacques for
patiently laying the foundation with the client, and last but not
least to Andy Wermouth for the fundamental visual design of the site.
