[aclug-L] Re: volunteers

[Tom Hull <thull@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Hall wrote:
> 
> The existing site uses Zope, which is much like OpenACS in many ways.  I
> believe Zope is actually a much more feature-rich application than OpenACS,
> although OpenACS is probably more 'mature'.  Unless there's a good reason to
> switch to OpenACS, I suspect Zope is the better way to go... simply because
> we have a server on an OC-3 already running zope :)

I don't buy the argument that we should use Zope because it's what is already
in use (which we've pretty much agreed is wanting). I also think that the
hosting question should be separate from tools/content development (although
the latter may impose some requirements that limit hosting choices; traffic
and dataset size also impose requirements).

The real question is whether Zope is really better (multifaceted word) than
OpenACS for our requirements. At this point I don't know Zope (or Python), and
would appreciate any insights from anyone who has experience with Zope and/or
OpenACS.

The other thing is to work out a list of things people would like to see on
the website.

> There was some dicusssion on the committee list about moving the server back
> to Kansas, and some suggested leaving it on the OC-3 is best.  I'm still not
> entirely convinced, though.
> 
> I think if we have people willing and able to work on the software, we sorta
> need the server where they can use it... Perhaps we can get a good
> colocation deal from a local ISP?  Maybe iWichita, Websurf, Datility?
> Something that would give us enough bandwidht, but also local access if/when
> necessary?

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