How about a web ring?
I am about to host a coon apps site myself. Since we all might be running on different versions and with different ideas about our applications, maybe a loosely connected structure is better. Send me your URLs, I'll link from my web site. You can link to mine too: cocoonhive.org Ivelin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ovidiu Predescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steven Noels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 12:25 PM Subject: Cocoon apps Web site hosting > Steven, > > I've already paid money to get an account to an ISP for exactly this type of > setup. At that time I was talking to other cocoon developers about setting > up such a site to showcase Cocoon. Unfortunately, none of us had sufficient > spare energy to pull this out and to start working on it. At the moment it > hosts only the Weblogs of myself and Jeff Turner, and Berin's and us email > accounts, but it will soon host the Anteater Web site as well. > > The vision of this is to have a loosely coupled group of developers, which > have similar interests and work on similar projects, to share the same > resources. Long term, I'd like us to become a center of expertise for other > companies to hire us, either individually or as a group, to provide support > and custom enhancements to these projects. > > I'm offering this site to host the Cocoon web site you're talking about, as > it shares the same vision I had when I started it. We have 1Gb of hard-disk > space available and 10Gb of transfer monthly, which should be plenty for the > time being. Unfortunately we have only 1 shell account available, but I > think we can increase that to three accounts with little additional cost, > which can then be shared among us. > > I already have a CVS repository setup for multiple developers, we can create > mailing lists and setup a Cocoon hosting environment for Cocoon apps. > > Please let me know if this is something which might interest you. > > Regards, > -- > Ovidiu Predescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.webweavertech.com/ovidiu/weblog/index.html (Weblog) > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/7464/ (Apache, GNU, Emacs...) > > > On 8/8/02 7:01 AM, "Steven Noels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > > > >> Or sourceforge? > >> > >> We should not use the cocoon cvs for cocoon-apps, I don't > >> now the official "apache policy" on this. It is very good > >> to have a cocoon-apps area, but I don't want to give all > >> 'cocoon-apps' committers also access to cocoon itself. > >> So it must be separated. > > > > Sourceforge is good as a development environment, but it will not give > > us the means of *showcasing* Cocoon apps. We will end up with > > (hopefully) some portal site, but a miriad of little project sites > > around this. I think Cocoon will be served better if we can group all > > these applications under one umbrelle. > > > > OK, here's my deal: > > > > I'm dreaming of a Cocoon application development community, comparable > > to SF, with CVS, mailinglists, and a Cocoon-app deployment environment. > > I've been dreaming about this for the past few weeks and did some > > homework. I've been figuring out the costs of hosting such a machine and > > securing it sufficiently, and I might even consider to jumpstart this > > entirely on our (=outerthought) own budget. No big iron server to start > > with, of course, just as CocoDocoWiki is run right now. > > > > Consider it to be CocoKrysalis. Now if other companies are willing to > > co-sponsor this, they are welcome. This will cost *real* money. > > > > In terms of opportunity management, it might not be wise to post such > > statements knowing I'm going offline in a few hours. But since the > > opportunity is there, and we are being confronted with the need for such > > an environment, I hope you will give me some time to gather all this in > > some plan, and come back to it in a few weeks. I'm dead-serious about this. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
