Re: State of Website

Can we hold off on making decisions or whatever until I
get back to Wichita? That should be the week of Oct. 7,
at which time I'll set up a meeting.

Also, it's not my intention to re-open the technology
decision, although I don't want to preclude anyone else
from advocating something or other, given how little
progress has been made since the PostNuke decision.
But even assuming that PostNuke is it, there are a
lot of secondary details that need to be addressed.

> From: "Dale W Hodge" <[email protected]>
> Date: 2002/09/28 Sat PM 07:58:31 EDT
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: [webdev] Re: State of Website
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf
> > Of Jonathan Hall
> 
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> > I think somebody should make an executive decision on what to use... and
> > start using it.  If/when others want to contribute, they can learn to use
> > the tool that's already in place, and/or, as appropriate/convenient, use
> > other tools along side what already exists.
> 
> Quite honestly, I thought this was already setttled, though I thought it best to
> offer one last chance to change our minds before we jump headlong into things.
> 
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> > I would encourage the people who are doing active web development to decide
> > who will make this decision.  As I believe Tom Hull is still the chairperson
> > for the web group, it would make sense that it be him.  If he feels he's not
> > actively involved enough at the moment to force his view on others, then I'd
> > be happy for him to delegate that responsibility to Dale or Jeff or someone
> > else.
> 
> Tom is the elected chair person, though his participation has been minimal as of
> late due to other commitments.  I thought I was given the authority to make the
> changes, and I elected to postpone those changes until I was certain we wern't
> jumping into a sinking ship.
> 
> > If nobody wants to make this sort of decision, I can do it myself, as
> > general chairperson of ACLUG.  I'd rather not have to make a decision on
> > something I'm not directly involved with, though :)
> 
> You are the Lead chairperson of this group, and you likely have the right to
> make that decision, though I'd prefer you didn't.
> 
> Since most of the day-to-day details of Aclug tend to end up in my lap, I'd
> prefer to use tools that make my job easier, and PostNuke is a better fit than
> the other choices we've looked at to date.
> 
> > I think we'd be best to pick something and stick with it until completion.
> > Once the new site is up and running, if we want to start playing with other
> > tools on a test/developmental basis, by all means we can.  But until we make
> > a final decision, we'll never have a rough draft to work from anyway!
> 
> I agree.  But one of the questions I've asked repeatedly has yet to be answered:
> Should we move to a faster processor with more RAM,  and should we remain with
> RedHat, or can we change to Debian.  I much prefer maintaining a remote machine
> running Debian.  Software and security updates are much easier to manage under
> Debian.
> 
> > The lack of conversation since this original post suggests to me what I
> > already suspected: That everybody is either ignorant or apathetic of the web
> > tools.  If we're going to wait for a consensus, we'll be waiting forever.
> 
> A little of both, though it's only been a couple days over a weekend since I
> brought this up. We didn't set a timetable for this project (probably a wrong
> move), so there's no hurt in waiting a few more days.
> 
> > So... as ACLUG chairperson, I'm asking for any final discussion before I
> > move and second a motion to delegate this decision to Tom or his chosen
> > deligate :)
> 
> I do hope people will go to the beta websites and look at the two proposals,
> then visit the software vendor's websites, and finally do a little research on
> thier own before drawing any conclusions.
> 
> --dwh
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> Dale W Hodge - [email protected]
> Vice Chairman & Secretary - [email protected]
> Air Capital Linux User's Group  (ACLUG)
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