Thanks for the offer! The exec has been talking about this a fair bit. I do web development for my day job (one of many roles), so also have the necessary skills. There are a number of others on the list that also have these skills. The problem is a matter of timing - any volunteer organization runs into this.
To write a CMS to take care of the features of the current site would be a relatively small job. But the exec feels we need other services there as well (in addition to the current features). So the question becomes one of "do we wait for the 2,3, or 6 months it'll take to write a custom CMS to meet all of our current and future needs?" Or "do we use a third party tool to meet most, if not all, of the current needs, that can be implemented right away?". As a developer I'd favor the first option. As a business person, I favor the second option... As you can see, it's not a cut and dry type of thing.... So, we asked the group about this at the meeting the other night. I asked if anyone had any issues with us using the third party tool, and the consensus was that they'd be fine with this. BUT, there is an understanding that if our members want to create a custom CMS for CLUG, we would be willing to move to this system when it was ready, and could be migrated to easily. In the next few weeks, I'll be putting in the shell of a new site, containing the content of the current site, and with extra capabilities. This means that we'll be able to offer more to our members, but we'll talk about this more when things are ready.. :) Thank you very much for your offer - we might still need to do some custom work, and your skills will come in handy for that. Shawn On Friday 06 May 2005 11:47, Alex wrote: > just woundering whos working on a cms for the clug.. i got a alot of > php/mysql experance under my belt and i maybe able to help out.. > > so.. whats the score? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
