-Notes for Platal
+Notes for plat/al, a platform for alumni services
PRESENTATION
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-This is the source code for the Polytechnique.org site, the almuni site of
-Ecole Polytechnique. This package is a suite of web applications geared
-towards alumni websites.
+plat/al is the platform used by the Polytechnique.org [1], the alumni site of
+Ecole Polytechnique [2], France. This package is a suite of web applications
+geared towards alumni websites. This is used to deliver services to more than
+12.000 registered alumni on Polytechnique.org.
-More information can be found on the Platal project page :
+More information can be found on the plat/al project page [3].
- http://opensource.polytechnique.org/platal/
+[1] Polytechnique.org http://www.polytechnique.org/
+[2] Ecole Polytechnique http://www.polytechnique.edu/
+[3] plat/al project http://opensource.polytechnique.org/platal/
REQUIREMENTS
http://httpd.apache/org/
-Platal is written in PHP so you need PHP support for your webserver. You
+plat/al is written in PHP so you need PHP support for your webserver. You
can find PHP here :
http://www.php.net/
-Platal makes use of the Smarty template engine which can be found here :
+plat/al makes use of the Smarty template engine which can be found here :
http://smarty.php.net/
-Platal also makes heavy use of the Diogenes library, libdiogenes which lives
+plat/al also makes heavy use of the Diogenes library, libdiogenes which lives
here :
http://opensource.polytechnique.org/libdiogenes/
BUILDING
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-To build Platal, simply run "make" from the toplevel directory.
+To build plat/al, simply run "make" from the toplevel directory.
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