Jon L.
I guess I read this statement wrong, "At the end of the day though, this is my choice." I read that as meaning he would consider using Drupal, since he had just gone on about how he felt Drupal was a better solution over Plone. Not knowing his involvement in the project I just assumed (apparently incorrectly) that he was the one responsible for such a decision. Following your post and K. Touvell's comment it seems that statement must have been a type-o that should have read, "...is NOT my choice." Thanks for your matter-of-fact response. _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Lebkowsky Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 12:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Refresh Austin: 3884] Re: Lets crowdsource the City of Austin's website requirements! The interview doesn't say that the City is considering Drupal. whurley's just saying it would be worth considering. openaustin.org looks like a brainstorm loosely collecting ideas for the site. I don't think the City can or will wait for that to cohere into a real set of requirements. Kedron Touvell's comment at GeekAustin is worth considering: "The reason why few people remarked that the city had not, in any broad public fashion, asked the citizens what they wanted in a website is because the city actually did, in a broad public fashion, ask the citizens what they wanted in a website. The Austin Go project reqs were crowdsourced from the very beginning, through an online survey answered by over 2000 citizens and six public forums in various parts of the city. So far, forces of ignorance have succeeded in delaying the infrastructure build-out of the website by 6 weeks and from inside sources may end up delaying it by 6 months or more. As I am skeptical that the city is going to consent to a community crowd-sourcing of the infrastructure implementation (if you were a CIO of a multi-billion dollar org, would you take that risk?), I am seeing very little positive benefit from all of this activity. What difference does it make in service delivery whether the underlying tech is drupal or plone? I say this as a drupal guy myself. It doesn't matter. Yes, we should ask for open data access, APIs, new services, etc. But please, can we let the city's tech staff do their job without incessant second guessing and NIH bs?" ~ Jon L. On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Terry Brown <[email protected]> wrote: Great interview Lynn - nice to see that Drupal will be considered. It is an exciting time for Drupal development right now! _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lynn Bender Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 9:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Refresh Austin: 3882] Re: Lets crowdsource the City of Austin's website requirements! My interview with whurley on openaustin is here: http://geekaustin.org/openaustin/ -Lynn On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Matthew McCabe <[email protected]> wrote: Why should we pay $700K+ to gather requirements for the City of Austin's website? Lets crowdsource it! Learn more about Open Austin here: http://bit.ly/JQuXL Thanks, Matt -- Jon Lebkowsky Social Web Strategies | http://budurl.com/socialwebstrategies Mobile 512 762-6547 Twitter: http://twitter.com/jonl | LinkedIn: http://budurl.com/jonl Blog: http://budurl.com/weblogsky Think and do tank: http://plutopia.org/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
