[Imc-alternatives] any forward motion?

[strypey at riseup.net]

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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