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  1. Introduction
  2. News
  3. Ideas for the PC Recycle web-site
  4. Important Stuff
  5. How to Create a (New) Page
  6. Notes

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

Introduction [toc]

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 [*] is developed. YOU CAN EDIT THESE PAGES [*] .

M.J. Bishop [*] is working on the web-site development with Damien Gooley

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 for some help.

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

News [toc]

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 [toc]

  1. 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.
  2. The website should provide some kind of 'catalogue' of the various old computers which have been donated to the project.
  3. Ideas From Damien 12/dec/03

  • 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 [*]
  2. set up a generic web-interface to the database allowing adding deleting and editing of records (I suggest a php component such as ?)
  3. some custom built pages for displaying the catalog.

  • 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 [toc]

[[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 [*] there is no 'zope' capabilities, or at least you would probably have to pay large amounts of money for it.

/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 [toc]

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 and then deleting all the contents from the newly created file. This process really should be fixed up.

Notes [toc]

The Wagga Wagga public 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 [*] behind Apache [*]

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