Rewriting the website (was:Re: (not) powered by PostgreSQL)

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: robert(dot)bernier5(at)sympatico(dot)ca
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Rewriting the website (was:Re: (not) powered by PostgreSQL)
Date: 2004-01-12 19:21:02
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Hello,

Personally I think that anything that we code the website in, should
be mirrorable. The fact that we
have a single point of failure (no offense Marc) and that point have
failure has shown itself multiple
times in the last twelve months is really a bad thing.

Sincerely,

Joshua Drake

Robert Bernier wrote:

> Run it like a contract. Just describe how you update and maintain the
> site and ask that all ideas must be compliant with these practices.
> The reward is a 'credit' link.
>
>
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Robert Bernier wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Actually I was thinking in bigger terms ie: put a new face on the
>>> entire
>>> website. The person you're originally responding to started out his
>>> thread by talking about rebuilding the site. I think that most
>>> 'ordinary' people have this idea in their head that if a site is good
>>> it's because it always changes.
>>>
>>> Assuming that you are open to the idea it means also that there's a lot
>>> of work involved. Why not let other people do it and let them get
>>> credit
>>> for it? This is what the co-op program is meant to do anyways.
>>>
>>
>>
>> To be honest ... I think there are about a half dozen ppl looking at
>> 're-writing' the site now :( the big problem I think that ppl are
>> hitting
>> righ tnow is "what technology to use" :) We've had everything from
>> OpenACS to Bricolage to straight PHP to ...
>>
>> Dave, what is the status of Adrian(?)'s work? Everyone should be back
>> from holidays now, no?
>>
>> Josh/Dave/RobertT ... is what RobertB proposing maybe something that
>> could
>> be focused on the Advocacy site itself?
>>
>>
>
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