Allium

This is the tentative home of Allium, the web application that drives the new website of the CCNY Department of Mathematics. Allium is designed to achieve a number of goals:

• Provide a professional, uniform web presence for an academic department.
• Improve communications as well as the flow of information within a department.
• Help ensure that all information is up to date and accessible to all users, including the blind and vision impaired.
• Minimize the workload of the webmaster by automating or decentralizing most maintenance tasks.
• Most importantly, make web administration fun!

Eventually, you'll find documentation and marketing hype here. For there time being, here are a few introductory documents:

• A tentative marketing brochure
• A tentative user's guide

Credits:

• Allium was written by Peter Brinkmann as an attempt to turn the drudgery of web administration into a worthwhile endeavor.
• Several members of the CCNY Department of Mathematics gave feedback that shaped the appearance and behavior of Allium.
• Allium is written in Ruby on Rails. It is currently deployed on a server running Ubuntu Server Edition 7.04. Software doesn't get any cooler than that.
• The current design of the CCNY Math page was derived from the OpenTech template, publicly available at Open Web Design.