I think Josh has an extremely important point here. I am currently developing the Connecticut for Dean site. (You can see a draft at http://ahynes1.homeip.net:8180/ct2, any comments would be welcome). The site is based on the Texas site (http://www.deanfortexas.com). Our go-live date is scheduled to be Aug 9th, after the State Coordinators meeting.
One of the things that they want, and that Texas has is something like the Talent part MetaDean. I have mentioned MetaDean to them, and if we can find a nice way of doing it, we hope to incorporate the CTForDean database with MetaDean. Hopefully, I can finegal a migration to a Drupal based system at some point. It would seem like our best approach would be to slowly introduce ourselves to the different State Webmasters and get them interested and excited about finding a way to integrate with DeanSpace MHO, YMMV, Aldon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Josh Swartzbaugh Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [hackers] Easing potential conflict between "homegrown" sites and DeanSpace Hello everyone! First I'd like to say that I'm very happy to be a part of this group. :) Uniting the various Dean movements is going to be one of the most important pieces of the puzzle to change this country's direction. It's not often that you can feel that you are really making a difference in the world, and I believe this group is, and will. Onward... This was brought up late in the meeting and was suggested to bring to the list instead: The DeanSpace plans seem to require every existing Dean group to have a DeanSpace node _in addition to_ their currently existing websites. I expect no one to be excited about abandoning their current sites... I expect few to be enthusiastic _beyond the initial excitement_ about maintaining an additional site that does not contribute to their current, "homegrown" sites. So could we develop stand-alone (non-drupal) modules (in php, asp, jsp, others? or perhaps just one, in client-side javascript?) that groups can put on their current sites, that will display (not alter, just display) the RSS feeds, thereby allowing a measure of integration between "homegrown" sites and DeanSpace nodes? Autonomy being the foundation of a grassroots movement, we don't want people to feel like DeanSpace is hijacking or upstaging their own work. Better yet, do such stand-alone modules already exist, GPL'd, and do they need to be expanded for our needs? Will we provide these as part of (or alongside) our kit? Peace, Josh Swartzbaugh [Madoc] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
