                                                                                         = The Mission Australia 'PC Recycle' Project (Wagga Wagga) 


* Introduction 

  The main site for the Community Work Centre is now at
  http://wagga-cwc.org.au but the content is still being migrated 
  (feb 2004). 

  The pages you are looking at are intended to be used as a kind   
  of 'scratchpad' or 'notepad' for ideas and information as the PC Recycle   
  Website [http://macwcwagga.homedns.org/pcrecycle/index.html] is developed.
  YOU CAN EDIT THESE PAGES
  [http://www.wagga-cwc.org.au/refurb/webpad/webpad.php?file=%2Fhome%2Fwaggacwc%2Fpublic_html%2Frefurb%2Fold-wiki.txt] .
 
  M.J. Bishop [http://www.geocities.com/matth3wbishop/] is working on the
  web-site development with 'Damien Gooley' http://www.damiengooley.com 
 
  If you want to add anything or change anything on these pages, just click
  on the link which says something like 'edit this page' link at the 
  bottom of a page.
  Note:
   This system is still a little rough around the edges and may be
   difficult to use at first. See the 'documentation' 
   link:///refurb/docs/documents.html for some help.     

For information about how to make these pages look prettier (with
headings and lists etc), see link:///refurb/docs/wiki-language.html


* News 

  Feb 2004: 
    The web-site is almost getting to a presentable stage.

  Dec 2003 - Jan 2003:  A period of little tangible results

* Ideas for the PC Recycle web-site 

  a- 
  The website should have some kind of Content management system
  to simplify the maintenance of the site and to allow for possible 
  'community' features of the web-site, such as the ability for 
  participants in the project to contribute information.
  -
  The website should provide some kind of 'catalogue' of the various
  old computers which have been donated to the project. 
  -
  Ideas From Damien 12/dec/03

  u-
  suggest participants utilize this wiki as a log of their activities as well 
  as their ideas on the site. Can we set up a page for each participant to 
  document their daily activities and ideas with respect to the project.
  -
  the design of the catalogue needs to be discussed and work begun asap. Mysql 
  is installed on the old server  (which is called 'intranet'),
  perhaps set up a web interface to the Catalogue database for participants   
  involved in the catalogue process to add entries to. We have a digital 
  camera so a photo can be taken of each item and added also. mjb: (12 dec 
  2003) This involves the following tasks:
 
  1- 
  designing and setting up a Mysql database, (feb 2004): this still hasnt
  been done, I have been side-tracked making a document management system
  for the new server [http://wagga-cwc.org.au]
  - 
  set up a generic web-interface to the database allowing adding
  deleting and editing of records (I suggest a php component such as ?)  
  -
  some custom built pages for displaying the catalog.


  u-
   allow visitors to register their interest 
   in being a recipient of some refurbished hardware or that they
   have something which they would like to donate.
   -
   A page to describe types of computer hardware that we really need 
  donated by the comunity.
   -
   A participant 'survey' page which asks the participants about their
   skills and interests and what they hope to extract from the course.
   This might be a slightly too 'impersonal' approach to finding out things
   about the participants. I think that face to face interviewing would be
   more effective.
   - 
   A simple system to publish Curriculum Vitaes for the participants.
   -
   In some cases a lack of literacy and typing skills may be a barrier to
   these activities. A voice recognition system to allow participants to 
   make input without having to have a high level of literacy would be an
   interesting idea. I do not know what open source voice recognition systems
   are available. This is a research topic. Open source voice recognition
   systems for linux appear very immature.
   - ... suggestions anybody


* Important Stuff 

  [[current web presence]] FIX LINK
  This page contains information about the current web presence of 
  Mission Australia, the community work projects and the Computer Refurbishment
  (Pc Recycle) project in particular

  http://wagga-cwc.org.au/refurb/docs/mjb-journal.html
  This page gives a summary of the things that M.J. Bishop doing as a 
  volunteer on the Pc Recycle project. 

  http://macwcwagga.homedns.org:8080/CommunityWork 
  An experiment with Zope.
  On the new webserver [http://wagga-cwc.org.au]
  there is no 'zope' capabilities, or at least you would probably
  have to pay large amounts of money for it.


link:///refurb/docs/cms-systems-info.html
  This document contains research about CMS systems which 
  were being asseseed (December 2003) for deployment on the Community Work
  Project Web-server

[[nice pages]] FIX LINK
  Web pages whos design I like (mjb)

[[sarahs page]] -- This Page is good. Hopefully Sarah will be helping
us in our efforts to create a web-site for the pc-recycle and web-design
project. (Dont be put off by 'zope' sarah) -this is meant as a guilt-trip

[[Jonno]] -- Things that Jonno is doing

* How to Create a (New) Page 

  Unfortunately you can't at the moment (feb 2004), unless you have a password.
  If you have a password then the process is still a little strange. You
  have to copy an existing file (by clicking on the link which says
  something like 'Copy or Rename the Current File'
  link:///refurb/manage/move-file-form.php?file=/home/waggacwc/public_html/refurb/old-wiki.txt and then deleting
  all the contents from the newly created file. This process really
  should be fixed up.
  
* Participant Web Sites

  http://paulswrestlingsite.bravehost.com
    This is a site devoted to wrestling. A few animated gifs and some
    information.

* Notes

  The Wagga Wagga public library [http://www.wagga.nsw.gov.au/library/]
  has the usual overly restrictive proxy server which only allows 
  connections on port 80. The current site has been designed with this
  in mind. The 

  Zope development has been put on the backburner since the new webserver
  does not support it.
  Zope non port 80 problems could be fixed using info from     
  http://zope.org/Members/regebro/Zope_and_Apache or by running Zope  
  [http://www.zope.org] behind Apache [http://www.apache.org]

  This page was originally part of the 'oddmuse wiki site' 
  http://macwcwagga.homedns.org/ideas/oddmuse-wiki.pl


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