[Opensim-dev] New Web Services Front End to link to Opensimusing ROBUST

[Aldon Hynes]

Not to get off track, but as an old Drupal hack, who has also worked on
Joomla sites, I find Drupal much more user and administrator friendly than
Joomla, but everyone has different experiences.

As to the the d4os project, I'm very interested in participating when I get
a chance and look forward to following this project closely.  People working
on the project that want to brainstorm, etc., feel free to contact me
directly.

Aldon
http://www.orient-lodge.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de
> [mailto:opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de]On Behalf Of ssm2017
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 11:48 PM
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] New Web Services Front End to link to
> Opensimusing ROBUST
>
>
> another point about drupal
> everyone knows that it is not user friendly but this is a good cms for
> common uses
> the next version (7) should be easier to manage
> this is not the goal of an opensim dev to explain to other people how
> to install and use an external program
> to use d4os, people should already know how to use drupal
>
> if you would like to use a full mvc / object oriented php code with
> easy install, you can maybe try to use joomla
> the actual version is poor with acl and some other things
> compared to drupal
> but the next version (1.6) looks very fine
>
>
> 2010/3/11 ssm2017 <ssm2017 at gmail.com>:
> > this message took 4 days to come to my mail box :)
> >
> > we had a little discution about drupal with diva
> > diva is right when saying that a lot of php cms are layers
> above layers etc....
> >
> > the drupal modules i am trying to build are targeting the
> drupal community
> > actually, i have created a branch in the git repository to
> match OpenSim 0.6.8
> > when i will fix some missing options, i will come back to the "master"
> > branch to use OpenSim 0.7 (if i will be able to run it on my machine
> > :))
> > then i will try to build some webservices connectors
> >
> > oustside of this, there is a very promising solution powered by
> > openmetaverse that is a set of php classes and front end using "code
> > igniter" php framework that is using full obect oriented code and mvc
> > architecture.
> > http://code.google.com/p/openmetaverse/wiki/SimianGrid
> >
> > i think that jhurliman had speak about this to diva and i am mostly
> > sure that diva will be satisfied with this solution
> >
> > 2010/3/7 Ai Austin <ai.ai.austin at googlemail.com>:
> >> Starting a new thread on this, as its likely to be a long
> running thread of
> >> discussion I would imagine.
> >>
> >> Here is a summary of some web interfaces in use or under
> development that
> >> are known about... and what I hope are useful entry points
> into the Opensim
> >> Wiki.
> >>
> >> http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Webinterface
> >> http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Known_Web_Interfaces_within_OpenSim
> >>
> >> http://d4os.isgreat.org/doc/dev/existing-solutions
> >>
> >> We tried (three times) to get OpensimWI going in our setup,
> and each time it
> >> corrupted some elements  of our data bases, losing some
> aspects of users and
> >> their setup.  But with help form New World Grid folks, we did extract
> >> elements related to groups and offline IM and use those in a
> very simple web
> >> environment for opensim 0.6.6 on to 0.6.8 successfully.
> >>
> >> We have also been watching and commenting on Opensim web
> iterfaces in use or
> >> now under development for
> >>
> >> a) The web front end for New World Grid at  http://www.newwqridgrid.com
> >>
> >> b) the Drupal for Opensim (d4os) new web interface using Drupal modules
> >> under development at http://drupal.org/project/d4os
> >>
> >> There are also new developments by various teams such as
> GridMix and HWIOS
> >> by folks active in the Opensim development coommunity.
> >>
> >> What is needed is simple web modules that can be re purposed easily and
> >> included in any sort of content management and hosting environment
> >> (basically any web server/Apache, MySQL, PHP environment,
> including Drupal,
> >> Joomla, etc too)
> >>
> >>
> >> At 20:16 05/03/2010, diva at metaverseink.com wrote:
> >>>
> >>> This troubles me too, as I have a couple of small grids that
> need a web
> >>> front end. I've been looking at Drupal this morning, but I was
> >>> discouraged by how horribly complicated it is to install.
> Even if I can
> >>> eventually make it to work, I will never be able to teach
> people how to
> >>> make it work. It's really horrible!
> >>>
> >>> I took a look at OSWiredux and I was also discouraged. It seems too
> >>> complicated. But that doesn't mean that OSWiredux is dead.
> Someone with
> >>> enough PHP knowledge should be able to fix it to work with the new DB
> >>> schema -- just a few table/field name changes, and it should be
> >>> salvageable.
> >>
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