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From: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
To: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
To: Gavin M. Roy <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Hello and some questions
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:32:12 -0800
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Robert,

> The problem is that everyone talks about what needs to be done but no one
> actually does anything...

Yep.

> I'm no openacs expert, but there are multiple CMS packages available.
> Whether they meet your definition of "full featured" I couldn't say.

There didn't used to be.  Maybe there are now.

> This is too rich. As the guy who has actually been stymied on several
> attempts to move techdocs into the future, and the one who is actually
> updating the content now, please let me know when one of you two is ready
> to "start running things".

Um, no offense, but I don't see anything happening with Techdocs now, from 
anybody.  Including you.

   You seem to think that there is some floodgate
> of authors writing articles with no way to get them on-line... I just don't
> think thats the case.  

Have you taken a look at General Bits lately?   Elein manages to get 2 new 
articles a week -- partly because she's persistent, and partly becuase 
authors submitting to General Bits don't need to do their own HTML 
formatting.

> Techdocs works better when the casual passer by can
> post responses and updates to articles on the fly, building upon others
> body of work. 

Yeah, that would be cool.

> but all of this is secondary to getting Andreas code finished up so we can
> begin unifying the various websites.  Thats where we really need to
> concentrate because it is the roadblock to new development...

Agreed.

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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