[webdev] Re: Are we making any progress?

[Tom Hull <thull@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dale W Hodge wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: webdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:webdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
> > Of Scrp@xxxxxxx
> >
> > Waiting for some direction.  Do we need a get together to discuss, or does
> > everyone just do what they want.  I sincerely hope that the answer is not 
> > the
> > latter.
> 
> I'm thinking maybe we need to do an online meeting on IRC.  We need to get 
> those
> who are interested in developing our web presence together in real time so we
> can get this thing moving.  If IRC isn't desirable, then we need to schedule a
> meeting.

A face-to-face meeting would probably be more productive. I think 2/11 is a
regular aclug meeting date -- maybe we could find a neighboring room for a
breakout meeting. Tuesday might be OK instead.

I'm really sorry -- I just haven't been able to function at all these last
2-3 weeks.

I think the big gating issues are:

 1) Technology framework. I haven't been able to get any grip on zope, and
    don't much like what I've seen, at least for what I perceive as the needs
    of this particular website. If all you wanna do is publish announcements,
    zope's fine for that, but it doesn't do anywhere near as good a job of
    facilitating community interaction. I also don't like its opaqueness,
    which I see as a steep learning curve before anyone can extend the
    framework. These concerns lead me to favor OpenACS.

 2) Machine and hosting. I had some discussions with Ryan Hunt on this, but
    haven't heard anything lately. I have a machine I was thinking about
    volunteering here.

> --dwh

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