Manila Best Practices?

[Kirk Langer]

While I am always hesitant to post to any list with what might appear 
to be a "me too" post, in this case it is appropriate.  In the State 
of Nebraska many of the regional K12 educational service units have 
adopted Manila as a method for providing teachers from their 
constituent school districts with the means to create and maintain a 
web presence.  We are currently planning a training for the system 
administrators at these service units with the intent to develop a 
"best practices" for the system administration of Manila.  The 
training will really be an opportunity to share what has become an 
amalgam of tips/tricks/scripts/tools gleaned from all over the web 
landscape.

It seems as though the focus of Manila has been the user.  I want to 
acknowledge how incredibly successful Manila has been with users 
because of that focus.  So successful that system administration has 
become a real issue.  In the spirit of the web/RSS it would be great 
to have an on-line resource with the system administration focus. If 
Manila development efforts can focus on this that would pay 
tremendous benefits and hopefully see managing Manila become nearly 
as seamless as maintaining a web site/blog with it.

Kirk Langer
Director of Technology
Lincoln Public Schools/ESU #18
5901 O Street
Lincoln, NE 68510
402.458.3131
mailto:klanger at lps.org
http://klanger.lps.org


At 10:11 PM +0000 1/7/04, webmaster at userland.com wrote:
>A new message was posted:
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>Address: http://manila.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$234
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>By: Dave Winer (dave at userland.com)
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>I'd like to work on this too. I've made a lot of improvements to 
>Manila at Harvard and now at the new implementation of scripting.com.
>
>This is a Manila site.. http://manila.userland.com/.


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