[Imc-alternatives] any forward motion?

[M Hodgson]

tried to see the linked url: http://indy.anarcho.dk/ but was a dead
page--can something be done so we can see what the link was going to show?
Michaelv

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:56 AM, strypey at riseup.net <strypey at riseup.net>
wrote:

> Kia ora koutou
>
> I'm back with batteries recharged and share Jay's hopes that
> imc-alternatives
> 1.0 will hit the web in the near future. For now I'm happy to leave the
> experienced geeks working through the imc-cms list to thrash out what sort
> of
> software would be best to build our site on. I'd like to turn my attention
> to
> the core business (excuse the yuk corporate speak ;) of an Indymedia site
> -
> reporting news.
>
> Over the next few months I aim to pick up on a suggestion made last year -
> writing the sorts of stories we want to feature on our proposed
> alternatives
> site and posting them to Aotearoa Indymedia. Ideally once our site goes
> live, I
> would be able to continue doing this, and tag things when posting to A-IMC
> to be
> automatically added to the solutions-wire on the alternatives site.
>
> For this to work I need to get the A-IMC geeks to add a tag to our topic
> categories. So I reckon now would be a good time to confirm a consensus on
> the
> name of our project and our site, so they can add that name as the tag.
> Are we
> happy with 'alternatives' or do people have other preferences? There is a
> list
> of the various suggestions that came out of the last brainstorm on this at
> the
> bottom of this page:
> http://www.openplans.org/projects/imc-alternatives/the-website-vision
>
> If we don't have consensus on alternatives, what I suggest is we use that
> polling tool we were using last year to set times for irc meetings. Maybe
> we can
> vote to narrow it down to a shortlist, then see if we can get consensus by
> discussion from there?
>
> RnB
> Strypes
>
> Jay wrote:
> > Happy new year everyone!
> >
> > This year, 2008 for all you Gregorians out there, is going to be the
> > year of the alternatives website's birth, I know it.  I'm currently
> > pinning my hopes on the imc-cms decision to happen really soon (Cake
> > is still the front-runner) and for the work around that project by
> > indymedia techies to catapult our project forward.  All this is a
> > matter for us to discuss on this list, of course, but I'm in the
> > hope-pinning mood today.  Below is an update from the imc-cms process.
> >
> > At 12/31/2007, you wrote:
> >>> I was just thinking of y'all.  Any forward motion toward the CMS
> >> decision?
> >>> There doesn't seem to be much action on the imc-cms list.  Do you
> think
> >>> things will pick up again soon after new year's festivities?
> >
> >> From Ryan:
> >
> >> Yeah, there's good news on this front. There has been a TON of work
> >> happening behind-the-scenes on the imc-cms project. I just sent an
> >> update e-mail about everything that's been happening to the imc-cms
> >> list. Check out these two e-mails:
> >>
> >> [1]
> http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-cms/2007-December/1231-c8.html
> >> [2]
> http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-cms/2007-December/1228-i9.html
> >>
> >> So, we have an architecture design that would make us 100% secure
> >> against server downtime, data loss and server seizures. While this has
> >> been talked about for years, we now have actual software picked out
> >> for all the different tiers and we even have the beginnings of code
> >> prototypes.
> >>
> >> To illustrate how fast we can go on the front-end tier, Simon (who had
> >> never used CakePHP before in his life) learned Cake and implemented
> >> almost all the features of an IMC. It took him about 3-1/2 hours to do
> >> by himself. You can see this prototype online at:
> >> http://indy.anarcho.dk/
> >
> > etc.
> >
> > Let's finally make this happen in 2008.
> >
> > Jay
> >
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