On May 6, 2005, at 7:05 PM, Neil Schneider wrote:
In the spirit of cooperation I would like to make a proposal to the other SIGs. I need to know the feelings of the steering committee first. Since we have our own server and since I believe Plone is easy to clone, I suggest we offer to host any SIG that would like to take advantage of the offer. In conversation with Lance I learned they pay $100 a year for their hosting.
Considering that we ended up with a hell of a sweet deal courtesy of Josh's colocation space, it seems only fair that if we end up with multiple SIG's websites and mailing lists on sparkplug, we propose to SDCS that SDCS pay a bit towards Josh's costs. We are, after all, eating 2U of his colo that other things could go in for his business. Just an idea. :)
I don't think we'll have to manage their sites, though it might require some hand holding in the beginning to get their webmasters up to speed.
Well, additional Plone sites really are no more difficult to create than setting up the virtual host in apache, adding a "Plone site" in Zope, and turning the SIG loose on it. If they want tutoring or hand-holding, there are plenty of resources online and in print we can point them towards.
If they'd rather use some other web site system or even just home-roll static HTML pages, I'm sure it wouldn't be all that hard to set up a couple more virtual hosts in apache. Just so long as nobody installs PHP-Nuke. :)
Hell, we could even process other SIG's mailing lists, and we might just want to offer to host SDCS's online functions on sparky _anyway_.
Gregory
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