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I registered the subdomain now what? I have undergraduate students lined up for all my side projects until the summer. Julien Colomb has received his PostDoc scholarship from the Swiss National Fund and will start in our lab March 1st. I am collaborating with Bruno van Swinderen and Paweł Szczęsny on the Drosophila learning mutant radish which suffers from Ritalin-treatable ADHD. I am also collaborating with another colleague on another famous gene, where most people think it's about language and communication, but where our data seem to indicate its ancestral function may actually be operant learning. Not only in order to keep track of all the people and their projects, but also to enable easy international collaborations, I would like to have a blog/wiki style lab website. But which content management system (CMS) should I use? I have been using e107 for this site (and others) for many years now, but it definitely wouldn't do the task out of the box. So I asked around. People there suggested Open Wetware and Confluence. Since I want to run it on my own domain, I was looking into Confluence, but it was rally pricey: $600 for the simplest installation. So I asked around some more and Matt Leifer suggested I use that money to hire a coder for getting my CMS of choice to do the task instead. I thought that was a brilliant idea, so I posted an "ad" on the forum for e107. Minutes later nlstart sent me an email asking for the specifics. I replied:All members should have a member profile that displays much
of the standard info on e107 profiles, but in addition it
should dynamically link all content articles (=projects) to
which the user is assigned (=write access?). This could be
done by hand, but I'd prefer it to be done automatically.
Content articles/projects need to be editable by the
assigned project members. These project pages should
autoamtically list and link these members under the title.
In other words, if I create a project, I want to have a menu
where I can assign lab members to the project and then their
profiles will list these project pages.
Each member will have permission to post to the lab blog
(news.php). I also want that the blog of each user to be
somewhat customizable and not the standard feed you get when
you select to display only a certain user from the feed in
e107. That way, you get a lab blog with several feeds:
main/total, users and categories. On each user's profile
there should be a link to his/her blog, by default.
The newsposts should also have a tag which tells the front
page to display this particular post.
So far, nobody else has enquired about the job. If this works out well, this may become a release for other labs, as I plan on open sourceing the code after I've been using it for a while. Maybe some other small labs want to take it up and tune it?of the standard info on e107 profiles, but in addition it
should dynamically link all content articles (=projects) to
which the user is assigned (=write access?). This could be
done by hand, but I'd prefer it to be done automatically.
Content articles/projects need to be editable by the
assigned project members. These project pages should
autoamtically list and link these members under the title.
In other words, if I create a project, I want to have a menu
where I can assign lab members to the project and then their
profiles will list these project pages.
Each member will have permission to post to the lab blog
(news.php). I also want that the blog of each user to be
somewhat customizable and not the standard feed you get when
you select to display only a certain user from the feed in
e107. That way, you get a lab blog with several feeds:
main/total, users and categories. On each user's profile
there should be a link to his/her blog, by default.
The newsposts should also have a tag which tells the front
page to display this particular post.
I'll post another note here when the beta version of the site goes live, so you can test it and let me know what needs to be fixed. Any important features a lab website should not go without?
Posted on Tuesday 10 February 2009 - 17:08:04 comment: 0
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