[Imc-alternatives] talked with nick, will send things to ryan

[Jay]

Hi imc-alternatives,

There's nothing like a discussion about web code to get everyone's 
blood pumping!  Okay, so I agree with Aaron that this list isn't the 
best place for the intricacies of CMS discussion -- please join 
imc-cms and make your opinions known there -- but seeing some passion 
here again after a couple months of floating has been nice.

Anyway, Nick, who offered to do some alternativesIMC design work, was 
in Philadelphia yesterday and we had a really good talk.  In person I 
was able to lay our vision out for him much better than I was over 
the phone, or in documents that we've passed around.  Nick asked if 
he should hold off on working on design until this CMS thing is 
decided.  I told him he should start putting ideas together now and 
that the design process will be able to work in tandem with any 
back-end tech choices.  If you're interested in working with Nick on 
this, please e-mail him at "nick at artclash.com".

Also, tonight I plan to gather some more information about the 
Alternatives IMC and send it along to Ryan so he can pass it around 
the imc-cms team.  Specifically I'm going to point them toward 
discussions we've had about content, "user stories" and other 
non-tech aspects of the project.  I think our non-tech vision is one 
of the strongest parts of the Alt-IMC and it's the thing that excites 
me much more than having super-cool code.  As his last e-mail 
indicates, non-tech issues have taken a back seat in a lot of the CMS 
discussions.  Maybe this is a place where we can join forces.

Jay