New Zealand VEX

[SCROSSLEY-GCEC]

I think when they were talking about the VEX site off of Massey it was for their photos. Correct me if i'm wrong but I don't think they said anything about Forums etc

as for the VEX Forum bit, the site is all well and good, I have nothing against it, but I think we were looking at something less formal (like CD) and something where you don't have to search or browse for hours to find stuff purely from NZ

Or we could have a photobucket/picasa type site with a publicly known username and password that we can link to from other sites.
Just gotta have a few people moderating it to keep it appropriate

Or a few people moderating an account and adding photos others put up (if anyone knows a site you can do that from)

[usif]

I know of a way to have a forum/gallery, wiki and website integrated into one package (I.e the username remains constant throughout every section). I can set it up on a free webhost for testing purposes, but if we are talking permanent then we will have to all chip in a few dollars, or possibly talk to Dr. Johan about a central "nz vex hub"

We could of course have a CD style homepage (As in the VBulletin portal page is the homepage). Give me the heads up and I can do it.

[SCROSSLEY-GCEC]

It sounds like a brilliant idea to me but I'm not so sure if most teams will be keen on paying for it. Maybe we should see if theres a free way of doing it, first?
or maybe we should see if Mr SymbiOHSis ((is it bad that my spell check has given up trying to correct that word?)) Webmaster can get one free like he can everything else
(semi-kidding)

The VBulletin would probably be the simplest way of doing it? Does it cost anything?
That could also get us our own version of 'CD-Media' for our photos, yes?

Correct me if I'm wrong, here.

[aciid_trojan]

I could provide hosting. (as SCROSSLEY-GCEC said, i have access to way too many servers ) when i get a minute away from internals and what not ill see what i can whip up.

because i think the idea of having a central hub for NZ vex stuff is really important.

[Trueliez]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

Your New Zealand community is a little small to really create a community, and I'd hate to have you go off into your own small world. If the VRC world is going to achieve CD-like critical mass, I, for one, would like to see it center around one virtual on-line home, like Vexforum.

Originally Posted by aciid_trojan

because i think the idea of having a central hub for NZ vex stuff is really important.

I agree with both points. I think it's important that New Zealand teams stay in contact with the international robotics community, but I also think that it will be beneficial for teams to have a means of contacting teams specifically within our little national community.
As FIRST is just starting out in NZ, I think that building up a community where our teams can swap notes, get to know each other better and help each other out will in turn help the progression of the organisation in schools and local communities here.

[usif]

Okay guys, I worked on this after school, and I managed to get a user bridge (I.e same user login for both the main site and the forums)

The main site example : http://nzvex.x10hosting.com/joomla
The forum site example: http://nzvex.x10hosting.com/phpbb


I have not bothered cleaning up the main page, because I dont have the time. Once I am able to intergrate the forum into the Homepage, then we can test it out, etc. I am also thinking about adding a wikipedia page in it, but that will be for next week.

NOTE: please register on the homepage, as registrtion is disabled on the forums (your username, etc will be automatically transferred to the forum, and automatically logged in) (I hope)

[SCROSSLEY-GCEC]

Great! =] Thanks so much they look brilliant. If I get you a few links could you stick them in when you clean it up? Or if you like you could give me the log in info and I can help out with it, seeing as I probably have more time on my hands than you

[usif]

Um, yeah sure. I will PM you the user login, etc. Have you tested out the user bridging? encountered any sideaffects, etc?

As for putting time and effort into this...Is it worth it, if in the end we are just going to restart it and move it to a permanent server (We could move the whole database/s, but thats over my head ATM)

[SCROSSLEY-GCEC]

We don't really know yet if it'll be moved - we could always keep it anyway. kinda like USFIRST Forum vs CD
easy enough to just link to it from the main one

Whats the bet Aciid would know how to move it?

[usif]

Originally Posted by SCROSSLEY-GCEC

We don't really know yet if it'll be moved - we could always keep it anyway. kinda like USFIRST Forum vs CD
easy enough to just link to it from the main one

Whats the bet Aciid would know how to move it?

A very high chance. if not, it only takes 30 minutes of google searches and 2 minute youtube video to find out how to do it.

If this is the case, then moving it to Aciid's server would be the best bet, and then we can later suss things out with Dr. Johan (which each and everyone one of NZ vex competitors owe our souls to) and buy a domain name. Something likewww.nzvex.co.nz

[aciid_trojan]

if you pm me details i can make wonderful things happen, right before your eyes.

in other words please give me something to do other than homework. kthx

[usif]

Originally Posted by aciid_trojan

if you pm me details i can make wonderful things happen, right before your eyes.

What details do you need? Acess to the cpanel, etc?

[aciid_trojan]

well yeah i suppose, if you want me to pull it off there and put on one of my servers.

i dont trust free webhosts at all.

[Trueliez]

I'm not too good with databases and such, but if you want banners and graphics for the site let me know =]

[usif]

Originally Posted by aciid_trojan

well yeah i suppose, if you want me to pull it off there and put on one of my servers.

i dont trust free webhosts at all.

Neither do I, I spent one hour trying to figure out as to why their servers suddenly went blank.

Ive pm'd you the stuff you need, and I explained to you that we might as well set everything up again (took me half an hour at the most)

as for GCEC gal'; we will use you Photoshop skills for good, soon I hope (before all of our mid years......)