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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:21:02 -0800
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Organization: Command Prompt, Inc.
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To: robert.bernier5@sympatico.ca
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: Rewriting the website (was:Re: (not) powered by
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Hello,

  Personally I think that anything that we code the website in, should 
be mirrorable. The fact that we
have a single point of failure (no offense Marc) and that point have 
failure has shown itself multiple
times in the last twelve months is really a bad thing.

Sincerely,

Joshua Drake

Robert Bernier wrote:

> Run it like a contract. Just describe how you update and maintain the 
> site and ask that all ideas must be compliant with these practices. 
> The reward is a 'credit' link.
>
>
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Robert Bernier wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Actually I was thinking in bigger terms ie: put a new face on the 
>>> entire
>>> website. The person you're originally responding to started out his
>>> thread by talking about rebuilding the site. I think that most
>>> 'ordinary' people have this idea in their head that if a site is good
>>> it's because it always changes.
>>>
>>> Assuming that you are open to the idea it means also that there's a lot
>>> of work involved. Why not let other people do it and let them get 
>>> credit
>>> for it? This is what the co-op program is meant to do anyways.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> To be honest ... I think there are about a half dozen ppl looking at
>> 're-writing' the site now :(  the big problem I think that ppl are 
>> hitting
>> righ tnow is "what technology to use" :)  We've had everything from
>> OpenACS to Bricolage to straight PHP to ...
>>
>> Dave, what is the status of Adrian(?)'s work?  Everyone should be back
>> from holidays now, no?
>>
>> Josh/Dave/RobertT ... is what RobertB proposing maybe something that 
>> could
>> be focused on the Advocacy site itself?
>>  
>>
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