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[Jim Ray <jim AT neuse.net>]

I'd recommend that anyone interested in open source solutions first read 
Maria Winslow's book:
http://www.neuse.net/opensource.shtml

She cuts through all the stuff you don't need to know and really lays it 
on the line for people like me that don't particularly care for the 
command line interface.  Definitely a good start.

Regards,

Jim

Jim Ray, President
Neuse River Network, Inc.

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wuzzled AT nc.rr.com wrote:

> I have a friend, Trish Perkins, who has started a non-profit called
> Worlds Touch (worldstouch.org), through which she hopes to use her
> growing tech skills along with her many many years of experience in
> travel to help nonprofits in developing  countries with their tech
> needs. She sent me an email this morning seeking someone who would be
> willing to email her back and forth with a bit of advice about moving
> entirely to open source software and maintaining the Khmer language on
> the site. This is outside of my areas of ability, so I'm passing on what
> she's told me. If anyone might be willing to help her out, please let me
> know!
>
>
> Here's all the info:
>
> She's currently working for Open Forum, an NGO in Phnom Penh. The web
> site that does their weekly press review uses a custom-built ASP/SQL
> Server content management system where their coordinator posts a news
> roundup each day.
>
> They're interested in moving everything to open source, and she's tasked
> with looking into the potential problems and creating to-do list for
> doing so.
>
> She tells me they have a guy who knows about Drupal, and so she's
> investigating making their CMS work in Drupal, but it means first moving
> to MySQL. That part isn't hard, but she says she's worried about the
> stored procedures (which she knows nothing about and doesn't understand
> in any way) the site uses.
>
> Her other question is about putting the Khmer language on the site.
> Directly from her:
>
> This is the Community Information Web Portal site. Look at it in IE to
> see the cool embedded Khmer fonts ABC and Limon.
> http://www.cambodiacic.org/  
>
> This is the Open Forum site, which is already running on open source,
> using Linux and Drupal: http://www.forum.org.kh/en/index.shtml
>
> What they'd like to do is move the old embedded fonts into unicode, and
> they'd like to have basically two sites, one embedded for the Windows 98
> and below machines that don't support unicode and one unicode for the XP
> machines that do.
>
>
> Thanks!
> Ruth
>
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