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Re: Website content-management software project
> 3. Since the project is VERY ambitious, I propose the following:
ambitious? isn't linux ambitious? isn't apache ambitious? and yet, they
came to life. eli - perhaps it's time to stop telling people how hard
things are, and let them try.
> a. Some of us can arrange a joint-venture/company which will
> develop this as GPL, and will sell support and installations
> (like Sendmail and other companies).
or rather, lets not. if you want to have this done as a company - go do
it. the nature of supported GPLed products is that they first come to
life, and only when the need arises, someone would offer commercial
support for it. ofcourse, if people here choose to go commercial from the
beginning, i'd have nothing to say against that.
> b. I invested much time in design and planning. I would be glad
> to share my results with you (but please don't ask me to do
> it by e-mail or by writing long documents in English; I
> really don't have the time for it!).
yes, that'll be desired, provided that comemrcial intents are put aside.
but, if you don't have the time.....
> c. Let's do a mini-conference about this project in one of the
> universities. I volunteer to give a lecture (keynote? ;-)
shahar offered a place in the technion. i wonder thought who'll bother
getting to haifa. i'd imagine that some innitial chatter about this would
take a mail-thread here first, then, if there's realy interest, move this
to the linux programmers mailing list shahar started on vipe.
in order to to be all negative, i'd say that this is actually a rather
easy project. the hard part is religious - does this software work with
already existing html pages, or it requires its own format, and only has a
way feature to export tha data as normal, marco-less html pages, or it can
also import plain html pages into its own internal format? this decision
alone would probably take a while. in any case, i'd be willing to
contribute some time to philosophical debates (as long as those are done
via email), design (likewise) and programming (if and when that comes to
life, via some central cvs server).
one thing thought worries me - most people here on the list seem to be
either non-programmers, or people who have no time, or the combination of
the two. yes, it's sufficient to have 2-3 people to start this off.
my two agorot,
guy