[Imc-alternatives] okay, what do we have to do to get this to happen?

[strypes]

Kia ora koutou

Absolutely agree that Alt-IMC is an idea whose time has come.

Jay wrote:

> Dave, when you said you could get something basic up in a day, was 
> that just irrational exuberance (hee hee!) or do you think you may be 
> able to throw something together?  (I know you work more in Plone but 
> my personal sense is that Drupal has less of a learning curve and 
> would be better for our currnet purposes.)

Potential volunteer pool is an important consideration for a 1.0 site
that is fully harmonized with the new architecture. For a short-term
beta site, the priority is maturity of codebase. Rob, is a Drupal 6.0
site, with no modules, going to need some much hacking to support indy
basics: open-publishing, anonymity, no logs etc? Is a Plone site, Dave?
If we are going to choose one or the other, which has the greatest
number of the features we want, working, right now?

However, if our eventual goal is to be part of the distributed
architecture, it makes sense to me to build even the beta site in a way
that totally separates database from front-end. So, could we have both a
Drupal front-end and a Plone front-end with some kind of cms-agnostic
database that's shared (or two of them that mirror each others entries)?

Each feature we want could be incorporated from whichever codebase
currently implements it best. Because we're are using the same taxonomy
(which could also be part of a mirrored database), and if we use open
standards or defining microformats (or whatever) for information
sharing, it shouldn't be hard to cross-data over between the two
front-end engines if we need to, right? Give them the same style sheet
(with appropriate tweaking) and it'll all seem like one site, right Nick?

I suggest we have an online working bee, set a date and time at least
4-5 of us can make it for a few hours, connect on irc, exchange pgp
public keys, divvy up tasks, exchange any passwords we need to do our
chosen tasks, and make it happen! I'm busy the next two days but any
time after that I could put in some hours.

Also, can we have some volunteers to be solutionswire clerks, and
feature editors, for the beta site? I'll put my hand up for features and
some clerking. I agree that the existing alternatives features forms the
basis of the introductory feature, and provides a beta taxonomy. Perhaps
content-orientated volunteers (if the droning tech talk hasn't put you
to sleep ;) could collaboratively confirm the taxonomy, subedit the
text, and check the links ready to go up as the first content of the
beta when the techs get it live?

Onwards and upwards!
Strypey

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