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Website:

·         Conducted user research and wrote web strategy for website redesign

·         Face-lifted  old front page with new design and dynamic elements

·         Developed information architecture and first paper prototype

·         Identified content management system

·         Built second prototype of clickable wireframes http://beta.icarda.org

·         Set up project site http://icarda2.benale.net

·         Hosted Human Computer Interface designer as intern for two months

·         Launched online collaboration area: http://groups.icarda.org

·         Integrated CGIAR project finder http://ongoing-research.cgiar.org/

Social Media

·         Set up two blogs and integrated them with the website

·         Established ICADRA profile on social media platforms: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Slideshare, Youtube, BlipTV, Flickr, Delicious

·         Published 192 news stories on our two new blogs and sent out 25 tweets

·         Conducted two successful social media campaigns accompanying Climate Change and Food Security conference in Jordan, and in collaboration with Global Wheat Rust conference in St Petersburg

Information & Knowledge Management

·         Set up network of focal points in each department

·         Team leader attended IAALD conference on information management and established collaboration with FAO on content management system, and with ICT-KM on projects database

·         Submitted proposal to GTZ together with CAS-IP to finance internship, which will assist with knowledge audit and Open Access agenda

·         Submitted small grants proposal to BEAF together with GTZ to finance knowledge management  strategy workshop

·         Started work on publishing workflow

·         Team leader attended GTZ annual KM retreat

·         Redeveloped governance of intranet and website, separating responsibilities for content and IT

Capacity Building

·         Webmaster back-stopper attained expert certificate in web design

·         Webmaster back-stopper currently attending advanced web design course

·         Identified trainer for web-team, currently  awaiting sign-off for budget

·         Team leader attended trainings in leadership, teambuilding and knowledge management

·         Trained maintainers to use online collaboration space

Outlook for 1^st quarter 2011

·         Conduct knowledge audit

·         Open Access Policy workshop in collaboration with CAS-IP

·          KM strategy workshop in collaboration with GTZ

·         Pending sign-off: train web team in new content management system and implement web design

1. Copy default.setting.php in the same folder and rename to settings.php

2. Set permissions of default folder recursively to 777

3. Modify .htaccess by adding this line to the bottom:
php_value max_execution_time 60

4. create folders for non-core modules in sites:
sites/all/modules
sites/all/modules/contrib
sites/all/modules/custom
sites/all/themes
sites/all/themes/contrib
sites/all/themes/custom

5. unzip WYSIWYG module to sites/all/modules/contrib

6. follow instructions to add CKE editor

 

Here's a video tutorial using FCKEditor

 

Installing the OA profile on the new server returned error: ‘500 – Internal server error’ when running installer after step "choose language"

Installing drupal itself gets past the "select language’ step without problems but returns the same 500 error once it is trying to set up the database.

I tried to replicate problem on a local installation

Automated set-up importing it via Acquia Stack works fine

Manual install on XAMP stack replicates problem, returns error:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in C:xampplitehtdocsdrupalincludesfile.inc on line 934

This seems to be a copmmon probloem installing OA caused by the extra modules the OA profile ships with instead of the the plain ‘core modules only’ of a normal drupal install.

https://community.openatrium.com/documentation-en/node/548

Solutions

1. One dirty hack suggests to modify install.php

http://bagofspanners.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/defeating-the-drupal-installation-timeout/

• Open “install.php” from the root directory of your installation

• Find the line calling “install_check_requirements” and comment it out

• Save changes

• Run install again


I tried this and it worked for the local install but did not solve the problem on the server. Also, it can’t be such a good thing to hack core to just to get it up and running.

2. Other advice includes: modifying php.inin, htaccess and, settings.php

I have previously modded settings.php to get around an isntall problem, so I’ll try that next.

3. Next thing I’m tryin to increase the memory limit by modifying .htaccess file

Succesfully modified .htacces by adding this line of code to the bottom of the file:

php_value max_execution_time 60

A trial install on my own domain http://manaf.benale.net worked instantly as soon as changed .htaccess.

Now I am attempting to replicate the solution locally with XAMP stack.

THat also worked, I think I got a fix for this now that will work on the new server as well withoutus having to get acess to php.ini

4. Another possible source of problems are the permiossions of the files directory

http://drupal.org/node/394704

I tried but could nbot change the permissions of the default folder (or any other for that matter) on the server using FileZilla