[Imc-alternatives] any forward motion? (2)

[Jay]

Hi all,

I don't think when I replied to Strypey's "forward motion" e-mail I 
responded to his best idea in it.  Yes, I agree that in the absence 
of a working website we should finally get up off our butts and just 
start collecting alternatives articles.  We could post them on the 
Aotearoa site.  At least that would get some of our content 
going.  I'm getting tired of waiting for tech things to come 
together!  We've been all talk an no action for too long.

Starting in the early summer I'll be free of a big project that's 
been hanging over my head for far too long, and would love to be part 
of bottomlining an effort like this.  Until then, I could be an 
active and enthusiastic participant.

Jay

At 2/21/2008, you 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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