[Seattle-editorial] Re: [Seasc] (No Subject)

[Sheri Herndon]

hey walt,
i completely agree.
i was waiting to forward this on until it said "final" :))
but this is an excellent impetus for us to work on some of these projects.
perhaps someone could convene a meeting after we've contacted some of the people who have webdesign and graphics skills in our database.
peace
sheri

>This means us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!We should vote what code 
>to adopt.  We should do so pronto, before we hold the process up.
>
>Media people, look at various sites and send some input about features 
>that we as media makers want.
>
>We can take up the graphics redesign which stalled 18 months ago.
>
>walt
>***************************************************
>Date:   Fri, 8 Aug 2003 15:01:28 -0400 
>From:   Micah Anderson <micah at indymedia.org> [add to address book] 
>[protect or block sender] 
>Subject:   [IMC-Tech] draft letter to active sites on stallman 
>To:   imc-tech at lists.indymedia.org 
>
>
>We've been mulling this over informally in person at times, and at the
>most recent meeting we decided to write a letter to all the IMCs on
>stallman that are running active, urging them to switch to a different
>code base, and offering them help to do so. We only want to contact
>about 5 sites at a time, so that we don't get swamped and so that we
>can do things in a managed way, streamlining processes as we go along.
>Anyways, here is a draft letter, any changes?
>
>Dear $IMC contact,
>
>IMC-tech is contacting you because you have a site on the shared
>server called stallman that is running very old IMC code, called
>"Active". We are writing to you because we would like you to consider
>switching to a more modern codebase.
>
>The reasons why we would like you to switch are the following:
>
>	. we cannot support Active code, nobody knows how to, and nobody
>	  wants to
>	  
>	. the active code is not supported or being developed any more
>	
>    . we consider active to be a waste of resources (human, database,
>	  disk)
>
>	. the currently hosted sites on stallman all are various different
>	  revisions of the Active code, unknown versions, half upgraded, 
>etc.
>	  which makes dealing with these sites a major pain
>	  
>    . most people think the other more modern code options are more 
>	  visually appealing from the outset
>
> 	. the more modern code options make administrative and technical 
>tasks
>	  far more easier and obvious: customizing the look and feel, 
>dealing
>	  with newswire spam, etc.
>
>	. the newer code has many more delightful features, such as 
>categories,
>  	  templating, multilingual support, calendaring, searching,
>	  syndication, most importat, they are being currently worked on
>	  and supported!
>	  
>There are many other options to consider as alternatives to active,
>please have a look at the following page to see the various options
>
>available: http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Devel/WebHome, also you can
>see people's opinions and experiences with the different code bases
>
>here: http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Devel/OpinonsExperiences.
>
>Your site is hosted on stallman, and if you choose to remain there,
>the code bases that you should consider are Mir, SF-active, or Dada,
>these are the only ones that we have talked about supporting. We will
>work with you to transfer your existing content to the new code, and
>help you get everything up to how it was before without causing you
>any significant down-time in the process. If you are interested in
>moving off of stallman, there are some other options available that
>can host sf-active, mir or dada. 
>
>Please consider the options, discuss it with your local tech people
>and your IMC and get back to us as soon as possible. Rest assured, we
>*will* move all IMCs hosted on stallman off of old Active, so if
>nobody from your IMC ever responds, at some point we will make a
>choice for you. We cannot continue to have active sites on this
>machine and continue to provide a service to people.
>
>Thanks!
>IMC-tech
>
>
>
>
>
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