[IMC-Boston-Editorial] new feature and spam question

[Sofia JarrinT]

hi ya'll,

Thanks for the update and let's move on then. I really
think Diego will be willing and have the time to help
us build the drupal site. Robby said he'll anwswer any
questions we have. I also know a bit of php and tons
of html, so I can help on that end for sure.

Jon, you're idea of starting from scratch, although
not ideal, seems to be the best solution. We should
have a meeting as soon as I get back (next week).
Thanks for all your amazing work.

Also, for those who don't know, I'm in Ecuador right
now doing some interviews about the FTAA and the
indigenous movement. Jon, IMC Ecuador was absolutely
PSYCHED about the camera you donated to them (yes, you
can blush now). They couldn't contain themselves and
are SUPER active although small...  They said also
that because it was a big camera and looks so
professional, it's less likely they'll suffer police
repression because they can look more professional.
Anywho, big kudos to you.

See you soon friends. 
peace,
Sofia

--- Robert Baker <rrbaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> I'm inclined to agree.  DadaIMC was the best back in
> the day but I'll
> come out and say that instead of releasing the
> source to the community
> already in support of the CMS, using it it and
> willing to contribute,
> Spud (the creator of dadaIMC) kept things internal. 
> And it's not his
> day job, so updates have been falling short of what
> was promised and
> severely lacking in terms of the general
> expectations of both users
> and administrators.  I still give it credit for
> being easily one of
> the best homegrown IMC website platforms available,
> but for Boston's
> needs, time to move on.
> 
> The other half of deciding on the right CMS for any
> organization is an
> evalution of the community behind the system itself.
>  DadaIMC's has
> gone quiet.  Drupal's is booming.  Ergo, the best
> move now in my
> opinion would be drop dadaIMC development and as Jon
> said reimplement
> on Drupal 4.7 from the ground up.  If drastic
> measures need to be
> taken: install it, configure (with special attention
> to hiding
> article/comments and not tracking IPs), turn off
> comments and posting
> on the dadaimc site, move it to
> boston.indymedia.org/archive and start
> over with Drupal, moving over the feature stories
> and static pages
> shortly thereafter.
> 
> I should have more time in the near future to help
> evaluate and do
> some very light work.  I really wish I could commit
> to more but I'm
> unreliable.  Not a good idea for anyone.  I'll stay
> on the list though
> and Jon, if you want to email me direct about any
> decided steps,
> please do so.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rob
> 
> On 6/8/06, Jonathan D. Proulx <jon at csail.mit.edu>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:52:57PM -0700, Sofia
> JarrinT wrote:
> >
> > :Also, Jon, could you give us a synopsis on where
> the
> > :spam  control is? If we're not moving forward, I
> > :really think we should ask IMC tech for help to
> > :actually go into dada and help us with it. Not
> sure if
> > :you guys saw the comment on the newswire about
> it.
> >
> > we are nowhere.  I got no response from
> support at dadaimc.org after
> > several attempts dispite his previous offer to
> arrange a phone call or
> > IRC chat, and I've gotten zero response from the
> dadaimc discussion
> > list.
> >
> >
> > I'm developing a rather unfriendly attitude to
> Dada these days.  On
> > the Drupal front I'm inclined to basicly start
> from scratch and
> > reimplement the test site and do my hunting for
> our changes that way,
> > atleast it would get us moving again even if it's
> from three steps
> > back.
> >
> > The server slowness some people have notices is
> pretty much entirely
> > from spam. It seems western mass
> http://wmass.indymedia.org has
> > disabled comments entirely to avoid spam, let's
> face it Dada sucks...
> >
> > -Jon
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