Ready for pre-alpha virtualization testers

We are ready for pre-alpha external testing of running Rhaptos on Amazon Web Services. You will need an AWS account. We have tested starting instances from an Ubuntu laptop and from Mac OS X and now we are ready for others to test these initial configurations.

The instructions are here: https://trac.rhaptos.org/trac/rhaptos/wiki/AWSQuickInstall

The following two configurations should work:

1. rhaptos-partial-32 : Rhaptos instance connected to a sample set of data for demos and exploration. It takes about 5 - 10 minutes to build and then another 5-10 minutes for reindexing the sample data set to use the amazon URL your instance is running on.
2. rhaptos-empty-32-dev : A Rhaptos instance that starts with a machine image with system dependencies installed and then builds all the Rhaptos code from a known working release. Takes about 5-10 minutes to start the machine that does the building and then about 20 minutes for the build.
   

Known issues so far: The workgroup links in the left navigation bar have the URL doubled and thus 404. You can hand fix the URL to get to the workgroup. We are looking into this. You will probably find something we didn't.

We are testing the clarity of the instructions, as well as the functionality of the result. We would love to hear feedback on how it goes. Please email cnx@cnx.org with your results and the rhaptos software development list (rhaptos@cnx.rice.edu) (which you have to join first).