[Imc-aotearoa-tech] Re: Ease of admin

Miles Thompson miles at mail.com
Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:42:04 -0500


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I think it wouldn't hurt to try and 'ask' the Active developers, which 
would be Andy at cat mostyl, though, there is a whole lot of them. THere 
is a list on cat for active dev or something towards whom you *could* 
address the request.

I suspect that the normal course of events would be more likely to be :
 - some particular IMC needs something
 - that IMC finds the tech resource to modify their local version of Active
 - eventually the changes are incorporated into the 'core' version of Active

Talking to DadaIMC people would be  abit silly because they are working 
on a totally different code base, so the feature request may or may not 
make sense in that context.

No obvious solutions for you I'm afraid other than - 'learn Perl/PhP' or 
find a way to get somebody with the time and technical know how involved 
and motivated.

Some of the people on this list might be able to do it, I dont wanna be 
too pessismistic.


Miles

>Kia ora koutou,
>
>Miles, u wrote:
>
>  
>
>>>Both good suggestions, but until someone 
>>>      
>>>
>volunteers to actually go in and modify the code to 
>do this, it ain't gonna happen. <<
>
>I would happily volunteer but unfortunately my 
>programming skills are limited to BASIC and Pascal 
>and I'm pretty rusty on them ;p
>
>It could be I've directed this feedback to the wrong 
>place. Is this something that needs to be changed in 
>the Active backend rather than something we can 
>change just for our site?
>
>If that's the case, who is the appropriate person to 
>redirect the suggestions to? Andy at CAT? The DadaIMC 
>developers? Both? Someone else?
>
>RnB,
>Strypey
>
>"How can you join with others, working to make a 
>better world - or even just preserve this one - if 
>you can't trust anyone? How can you fight for what 
>you believe in, if you think being active and 
>assertive means being an aggressor, an abuser? How 
>can you listen and learn, if you think being 
>receptive is being passive, a victim? In short how 
>can we heal the world unless we heal ourselves? My 
>motives for doing this work are selfish. I want a 
>better world."
>- Ellan Bass, from the foreword to Mike Lews' 
>"Victims No Longer" 
>
>http://www.parecon.org/
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I think it wouldn't hurt to try and 'ask' the Active developers, which would
be Andy at cat mostyl, though, there is a whole lot of them. THere is a list
on cat for active dev or something towards whom you *could* address the request.<br>
<br>
I suspect that the normal course of events would be more likely to be :<br>
 - some particular IMC needs something<br>
 - that IMC finds the tech resource to modify their local version of Active<br>
 - eventually the changes are incorporated into the 'core' version of Active<br>
<br>
Talking to DadaIMC people would be  abit silly because they are working on
a totally different code base, so the feature request may or may not make
sense in that context.<br>
<br>
No obvious solutions for you I'm afraid other than - 'learn Perl/PhP' or
find a way to get somebody with the time and technical know how involved
and motivated.<br>
<br>
Some of the people on this list might be able to do it, I dont wanna be too
pessismistic.<br>
<br>
<br>
Miles<br>
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  <pre wrap="">Kia ora koutou,

Miles, u wrote:

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do this, it ain't gonna happen. &lt;&lt;

I would happily volunteer but unfortunately my 
programming skills are limited to BASIC and Pascal 
and I'm pretty rusty on them ;p

It could be I've directed this feedback to the wrong 
place. Is this something that needs to be changed in 
the Active backend rather than something we can 
change just for our site?

If that's the case, who is the appropriate person to 
redirect the suggestions to? Andy at CAT? The DadaIMC 
developers? Both? Someone else?

RnB,
Strypey

"How can you join with others, working to make a 
better world - or even just preserve this one - if 
you can't trust anyone? How can you fight for what 
you believe in, if you think being active and 
assertive means being an aggressor, an abuser? How 
can you listen and learn, if you think being 
receptive is being passive, a victim? In short how 
can we heal the world unless we heal ourselves? My 
motives for doing this work are selfish. I want a 
better world."
- Ellan Bass, from the foreword to Mike Lews' 
"Victims No Longer" 

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