Moacad roadplan

This page is to be used to discuss the future of the Moacad website.

Forum

Should Matt's forum hosted here?

I think so. It makes sense, because why would either he or Elena want anything to do with it after this year? -Chrax

We might consider converting to punBB, its a streamlined version of phpbb. But its not all that neccessary. -Squishypickle

Looks good to me, I nominate 'you' to make a nice list of advantages and disadvantages --Andy 17:38, 7 Jan 2005 (EST)

Could we, or would it even be worty trying to build the forum into the wiki, so that you only have to register once?, I'm thinking this because we already do a lot of discussion here anyway, we might as well use something made for discussions to do it. --Andy 19:25, 7 Jan 2005 (EST)

I think that would be a good idea, and major props to whoever does it *MATT*. -Chrax

Databases

What about the Student databse, and the Object database Mike was making?

The student database, unless something has changed since last I used it, was done terribly. Neat idea, but I don't see any advantage it might hold over a wiki page except that it cannot be defaced. If we are to keep using it, I would suggest that we either try to get an interface to it in the wiki, or we at least fix up the moacad page to not be so ugly. -Chrax

Old stuff

What should we do with the old stuff such as pages of SGA minutes and such?

I am of the opinion that we give them to some poor hobo in need of a blanket. -Chrax

Also something needs to be done with the SGA applications.

One of them was down, last I checked. I turned the other into a regular html file that can be readily put into any format. Only problem is that MediaWiki doesn't allow for forms except for on special pages, which Andy will have to make. -Chrax

Connectivity

How should stuff be linked together?

What I've gathered so far is that everyone generally wants the wiki to be the first thing you come to on moacad.com so there would have to be links on that (this) to other parts of the site (and then back again). Where should we put them? I'd prefer to have them be more permanante links (as opposed to a link from an article) because something like Matt's form (if it comes here) would be another major part and it would be nice to get a more standardised set of links throught the entire site.

It would be good if everything was categorized on the front page like wikipedia, and maybe a standard navbar could be put on every page like I did on my webpage. -Squishypickle