About WAPA and the WAPA Web

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worcesterapa.org is the site for All Things Flying in the Greater Worcester Area. The Worcester Area Pilots Association WAPA is open to all Pilots, Mechanics, Students, and anyone else with a genuine interest in Flying. The worcesterapa.org web site is open to anyone, but only postings that are constructive and related to Flying will be accepted.

For more information about WAPA, check out the WAPA Frequently Asked Questions

worcesterapa.org is run by George Clark, on behalf of the Worcester Area Pilots Association. It is built using free and open source software including that listed below:

worcesterapa.org could not be possible without the use of some great Open Source software.

• Gentoo Linux
• Perl
• Apache
• mod_perl
• MySQL
• Mailman
• Mod_Survey
• TWiki
• Postfix
• gld

Mailman is software to help manage electronic mail discussion lists, much like Majordomo or Smartmail. Mailman gives each mailing list a unique web page and allows users to subscribe, unsubscribe, and change their account options over the web. Even the list manager can administer his or her list entirely via the web. Mailman has most of the features that people want in a mailing list management system, including built-in archiving, mail-to-news gateways, spam filters, bounce detection, digest delivery, and so on.

Mod_Survey is an apache module for conducting surveys. It was used for our member survey, and is also used to collect some basic information from new members.

-- GeorgeClark - 30 Dec 2004