X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25FDBD1B473 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:34:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 64014-03 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 13:34:28 -0400 (AST) Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (server228.ethosmedia.com [209.128.84.228]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3567D1B4B3 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 13:34:26 -0400 (AST) Received: from [63.195.55.98] (HELO spooky) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.2) with ESMTP id 4091962; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:35:16 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Josh Berkus Organization: Aglio Database Solutions To: Robert Treat , "Gavin M. Roy" , pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Hello and some questions Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:32:12 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <3FDE28DA.5070902@ehpg.net> <200312161407.20475.josh@agliodbs.com> <200312170832.54102.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <200312170832.54102.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200312170932.12732.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200312/112 X-Sequence-Number: 3172 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