[Imc-alternatives] any forward motion?

[Jay]

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