Temporary FI platform

[Mel Chua]

> Are the same things that were blocking zikula for the docs team blocking
> zikula for marketing?  Would it be that hard to get even an initial,
> relatively blank zikula instance on servers that are not covered by the
> Infrastructure change freeze and then work on polishing that?

Great question. It sounds like some of them are, at least legally:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/logistics/2009-August/000140.html 
(in response to 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/logistics/2009-August/000138.html)

Technically, though, it should not be that hard. This is what needs to 
be set up: 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/logistics/2009-August/000141.html 
(I don't think there's any real blocker on a test instance happening, 
just that nobody's stepped up to do it yet.)

Robyn, is this something you'd be willing to work on? If Infra can get a 
test instance installed, could you take some F11 marketing content (for 
instance, the stuff already written up at 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F11_Talking_Points) and take an hour or 
two to experiment with publishing those (copy-paste the content into 
blank articles) through the system to see what the 
interface/workflow/tags/feeds/etc. look like, to help give us a sense of 
how this setup might feel like to contribute news to and consume news 
from? (Or was it a different kind of help you wanted to offer?)

That should put us in good shape for a right-after-F12 zikula launch for 
FI, but doesn't solve the temporary "until that launches in, say, 
January, we need a place to put content and get feeds" problem which I 
was hoping to tackle by getting a quick-and-dirty wp install up and 
skinned so we can concentrate on content for F12 while further platform 
work progresses in the background. That's why I'm temporarily looking 
into the wordpress thing.

Does this make sense?

--Mel