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[Martin Gruner]

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Am Montag, 23. November 2009 18:36:49 schrieb Thomas Abthorpe:
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:06:00 +0100
> 
> Daniel Holmlund <holmlundlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Raoul,
> >
> > I think that moving the website to Drupal is an excellent idea for
> > many reasons.  If you are beginning to form a group to work on this
> > project, I would like to volunteer.  I have several years of
> > experience working with and deploying Drupal for missionaries here in
> > France.  Typically, these sites are either online magazines for French
> > speaking Africans or French podcasts.  I particularly enjoyed working
> > on http://cheminsdevie.info/ the French translation/adaption of James
> > Vernon McGee's 5 year 'Thru the Bible' program which was done for
> > TransWorld Radio.
> >
> > I'd really like to see the BibleTime website become more user oriented
> > and allow more people to participate together online.
> 
> I took this thread off line, so I could bounce some ideas off Daniel and
> Raoul, so now back to the list.
> 
> Fist off, thanks for Daniel for volunteering to step up, and offer to help.
> 
> Until now, the website has rather been a single point contact with me
> maintaining it with occasional feedback from others. As the project has
>  grown in developers, community etc this last year, it is time to elevate
>  the website to the next level. The old means of maintaining xml and
>  rendering to html has served it's purpose, but there is an aspect of
>  dynamic content that we need to address.
> 
> So to move forward, we likely can build on the drupal framework that was
> implemented to deliver our blog. With the addition of a few more modules,
>  and this should be easily accomplished.
> 
> The process will require a time of analysis, in which we look at our
> old webpage, and see what content needs to be migrated over, along with
> feedback from developers and the community at large. It is also absolutely
> integral that we keep our translators apprised and informed such that they
> will be able to participate actively in the process.
> 
> I am a little out of my element with Drupal, but Raoul has a good working
> sense of it so the initial setup should be fairly straight forward. After
> that the content should be very easy to maintain. Once the website is up
>  and running, then we can reap the benefit of news releases, content update
>  via RSS, along with nice integration with the blog et al.
> 
> Now the timeline for this is still a work in progress. Between upcoming
> holidays and other personal commitments we are likely going to commence in
> February.
> 
> So over to you folks, feedback is appreciated!
> 
> 
> Thomas
> 

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