Plone MapServer Website maintenance this weekend

[Howard Butler]

All,

I will be working on the Plone website this weekend, and it will be 
up and down all throughout Saturday and Sunday.  I will freeze the 
content on Saturday morning (~10 AM CST), so please don't add 
anything and expect it to stick around until Sunday night.  I will 
send another message to the list when I am done.

Here's a list of the improvements I hope to add:
- Incorporate worldkit in user preferences so that users can pick 
their lat/lon with a map
- Incorporate Plone2PDF, which allows all of the documents to be 
downloaded as a pdf with minimal styling
- Upgrade to Plone 2.1.  Faster.  Bug fixes.  Live AJAX searches ala 
Google Live Search
- Upgrade the Help Center ("Documentation" section) to support 
language translation
- Folders and grouping for Gallery entries
- Some folder permissions tweaks
- RSS-ifying of all of the major content areas.  You will be able to 
put RSS links of sections of the website in your RSS reader and watch 
as new content is added to the site if you want.
- Other things as necessary
- Continue working on the "how to contribute to this website" document.

We are still interested in a CSS guru who would be interested in 
styling the Plone website.  It currently is a bit stodgy and 
dull.  Anyone who is interested please contact me.

Also, if anyone sees major content that exists on either the wiki or 
the "blue" website that hasn't made it to the Plone site, let me 
know.  My expectation is to have the Plone website be *the* MapServer 
website by the end of the month to coordinate with the upcoming 
MapServer 4.8 release.  The "blue" website will still exist as an 
archive, but it will not be updated in the future.

Howard