About UCLKS Web System

1. UCLKS Web System
Aug 21, 2011
Soo-Hyun Choi
soohyun.choi@cl.cam.ac.uk
s.choi@cs.ucl.ac.uk

2. What You Will Learn
• How to manage UCLKS.COM Web Boards
• How to manage UCL Mailing List
• How to maintain UCLKS.COM Homepage
• How to upgrade UCLKS.COM Homepage

3. History
• Funding
– David Kiwoong Kim raised funding for UCLKS homepage
• Launching
– Ho Bae launched UCLKS.COM in 2006
• Managing
– Soo-Hyun Choi has been managing UCLKS.COM and
mailing list since its inception

4. Brief Overview
• UCLKS Web is comprised of two different systems
– Homepage, that is UCLKS.COM
– Mailing List, that is UCLKOREANS@GOOGLEGROUPS.COM
– E-mail Service, that is MAIL.UCLKS.COM
• Homepage (UCLKS.COM) is hosted at
OPENCOM.COM
– It is a hosting company, so we need to pay them annually.
• Mailing List (including E-mail) utilises the GoogleApps
(free!) – Google’s one of many services

5. Simple Diagram
Mailing List
Homepage
E-Mail Service
FTP URL Shortner
Various Boards
DB Etc

6. UCLKS.COM
BASIC INFORMATION

7. Hosting Information
• Company Name – OPENCOM
– URL: http://www.opencom.com/
– ID: <ask-if-you-want-this-info>
– PW: <ask-if-you-want-this-info>
• Contact Information
– T: 1544-4256
– E: webmaster@opencom.com
– F: 02-6442-5411
• We are using the Windows NT hosting w/ MS-SQL
– Annual Hosting Price = 140,000 KRW as of now (Aug 2011)

8. UCLKS.COM Admin Logins
• Admin Page
– <ask-if-you-want-this-info>
• Master User (Privileged User ID)
– ID: <ask-if-you-want-this-info>
– PW: <ask-if-you-want-this-info>
• Webmaster
– ID: <ask-if-you-want-this-info>
– PW: <ask-if-you-want-this-info>

9. GoogleApps
BASIC INFORMATION

10. GoogleApps
• What is it?
– Simply, Google provides various useful services to social
communities for free!
– These include E-mail, Calendar, Docs, Chats, Blog, Mailing
list, URL shortner, etc etc
– It is exactly the same as the normal Google services, but
tailored to a community, for example.
• e.g.,) E-mail: http://mail.uclks.com/

11. Examples
• E-Mail – mail.uclks.com
• News – news.uclks.com
• Docs – docs.uclks.com
• Calendar – calendar.uclks.com
• Sites – sites.uclks.com
• Start – start.uclks.com
• Short Link – link.uclks.com
• Moderator – moderator.uclks.com
N.B.) I’m not going to cover how I have created those services in this PPT slide. 

12. Now, let’s create your own UCLKS.COM account

13. Join UCLKS mailing list
• go to http://groups.google.com/group/ucl-koreans
• Join the mailing list
– using your existing email address AND uclks.com address

14. Aliases
your-real-email-addresses
webmaster’s-email-addresses
alumni-manager’s-email-
addresses

15. Practical Examples
MANAGING UCLKS.COM

16. UCLKS.COM Homepage
<management-url-hidden>
• President
– User management
• Webmaster
– Announcement, mainly
Unfortunately, UCLKS.COM web boards do NOT support HTML tags: a big shortcoming

17. What?? We cannot produce this! = Ugly

18. news.uclks.com
Announcement Board news.uclks.com
UK Alumni Party
Visit the following link
for the details –
http://news.uclks.com/
home/ukalumniparty
✔ webmaster login ✔ GoogleApps login

19. how to edit news.uclks.com
• It is the Google Site service
• Need to login using GoogleApps account

20. Managing UCLKS Mailing List
• Essentially, it is the GoogleGroups service
• Need to login using GoogleApps account

21. Upgrade UCLKS.COM?
HOW TO UPGRADE UCLKS.COM

22. Issues
• A BIG BIG concern is how to migrate the existing
User’s DB, i.e., user’s login information
– They are stored on an MS-SQL database system instead of
MySQL, a more popular DBMS.
• Various Boards
– We are not using the ZeroBoard, a very flexible board
platform.
• Hosting fees
– Linux hosting is more expensive than Windows NT system.