NYCPHP Meetup

[Gary Mort]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Ellen Rothwax <ellen.rothwax at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have a Request for Proposal for a website with the following
> functionality requirements.
> 1.create opportunities for members to interact with each other via
> chatrooms and webconferencing
> 2.provide webinars, podcasts and webcasts, both free and fee-based
> 3.web conferencing for members
> 4.creating and marketing a blog to develop wider interest in the
> organization
> 5.creating an "ask the specialist" tool with appropriate security for
> people to use the website as a confidential resource.
>
> This is a much larger project than I usually deal with. My questions are:
> 1. Which Joomla extensions do you recommend to meet these various
> requirements?
>


For webinars, podcasts, and webcasts I'd suggest youtube hosted videos with
hwdmediashare.  Note: put fee based ones off to phase 2, get things working
with free services than move on.

I would USE Kaltura with it's Joomla plugin.  I would set it up using the
commercial service, and then as a phase 1.5 setup my own private server
using their open source version[and hopefully 1.5 will be stable by then]

For chatrooms and web conferencing, I would integrate ARSC:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/arsc/

It has hooks in the code for integration already.... does not do web
conferencing or such, but you can grab code form some other chat
servers[AjaxChat has nice sound/smiley integration, but otherwise has lagged
behind].

See http://plan.catskillcrafting.com/projects/mommychats for a list of what
I am aiming for to make my wife happy.



> 2.How would we deal with the "confidential" ask the specialist?
>

Sobi, K2, Fabrik, or any other CCK component - most have a submit function
that can be restricted to only a few people to view.


3. What server requirements (an area I am totally ignorant about) would be
> needed?
>

If your hosting video offsite, you should be fine with most anything.

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