Manila Best Practices?

[Dave Winer]

Maybe we should start a list just for Manila users in education?

Did you know there's a course at MIT this month teaching people how to use
Manila.

It's true. We're developing curricula for this and other trainings we're
doing, and we're sharing them.

I'm ccing this to Andrew Grumet who's teaching the class at MIT, and Michael
Feldman who did the trainings at BloggerCon in October. Michael is from
Boston University.

Dave


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kirk Langer" <klanger at lps.org>
To: <Frontier-Users at userland.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: Manila Best Practices?


> 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:
> >
> >Address: http://manila.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$234
> >
> >By: Dave Winer (dave at userland.com)
> >
> >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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