Re: [discussion] Bug in the machine

2016-10-14 Thread John Crisp
On 14 October 2016 14:28:51 CEST, "R. Vielnascher Alleskunst.net GmbH" wrote: > >@John: i am a Little disappointed that you not Only let this Happen, >but even put Heat to it!? What is the use of this that you do not >interfere? > Rudi, I have not been President nor a

[discussion] Server-Manager

2016-02-16 Thread John Crisp
a Perl monk ? In other words could an idiot like John Crisp manage to build a simple Perl contrib (not rocket science if I can do it) with a simple HTML panel to go with it ? Filippo had mentioned to me last year that that they had looked at Cockpit as a potential server manager - note the wording

Re: [discussion] [devinfo] Think before to code... LONG RAMBLE

2016-02-15 Thread John Crisp
On 16/02/16 01:07, Jean-Philippe Pialasse wrote: > >>> >> Then tart up sme9 as has been suggested by John Crisp, use it to develop >> changes/look/layout, as much as it will allow for easy carry over to sme10. >> Introduce a new UI if that is also indicat

Re: [discussion] [devinfo] Discussion and Development

2016-02-15 Thread John Crisp
On 15/02/16 20:56, sme at ortecin GmbH wrote: >> >> If you have tried to build a panel then you may know. If you have not >> then I really suggest you give it a try to find out for yourself why we >> are all agreed it needs changing. There are probably others here who >> will give you a lot of

Re: [discussion] [devinfo] Discussion and Development

2016-02-14 Thread John Crisp
On 14/02/16 22:05, sme at ortecin GmbH wrote: >> >> Each of those have sub tasks and pros and cons. Do we build a new server >> manager just on CentOS 7 ? Do we build it on CentOS 6, and then migrate >> it all to CentOS 7 ? Which framework do we use ? Etc etc etc. > Hmmm that is the part

Re: [discussion] [devinfo] Discussion and Development

2016-02-14 Thread John Crisp
Hi Hans, and thanks for contributing ! On 14/02/16 20:05, sme at ortecin GmbH wrote: > A very nice post, must have taken you ages to type on an touch screen > Yup. such is life ! > > What I personally view as being problematic: > > * From my potentially incomplete view I had the

[discussion] Discussion and Development

2016-02-13 Thread John Crisp
community or yourselves. B. Rgds John Crisp -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.___ Discussion about project organisation and overall direction To unsubscribe, e-mail discussion-unsubscr...@lists.contribs.org Searchab

Re: [discussion] SME Server now and future

2016-01-04 Thread John Crisp
On 04/01/16 14:41, John H. Bennett III wrote: > Happy New Year to all!! > Likewise ! > Every year I contemplate if this is the year/time to look at possibly > selling/supporting SME Server on a full time basis. > This distro has come a long ways since I started using it with e-smith 3.0. >

[discussion] FOSDEM 2015 - potential meet up ?

2014-12-04 Thread John Crisp
Dear all, I plan on going to [url=https://fosdem.org/2015/]FOSDEM[/url] in Brussels on the weekend of the 31st Jan / 1st Feb 2015 and wondered if anyone else can get there ? I thought it might be a good opportunity too meet up, chat, and try and reduce the EU wine and beer lakes a little :-)

[discussion] Koozali server reboot

2014-10-30 Thread John Crisp
All back up and OK. B. Rgds John ___ Discussion about project organisation and overall direction To unsubscribe, e-mail discussion-unsubscr...@lists.contribs.org Searchable archive at http://lists.contribs.org/mailman/public/discussion/

[discussion] Koozali Foundation Birthday

2014-04-30 Thread John Crisp
a great team and a phenomenal product which has a potentially bright future. Once again, PLEASE get involved and help in some way, however small. B. Rgds John Crisp President - Koozali SME Server ___ Discussion about project organisation and overall

Re: [discussion] Koozali history assistance

2014-03-03 Thread John Crisp
On 22/10/13 23:03, Charlie Brady wrote: On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, John Crisp wrote: In July 2001, e-smith was acquired by Mitel Networks, in September 2004 by Lycoris, and the project is currently sponsored by Resource Strategies, Inc. (Not) Can anyone fill in the following dates

Re: [discussion] Koozali history assistance

2014-03-03 Thread John Crisp
On 03/03/14 18:47, Charlie Brady wrote: On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, John Crisp wrote: 5.x (Mitel ? approx 2005 ?) Much earlier - we were at version 5.6 is Jan 2003: http://osdir.com/ml/network.e-smith.devel/2003-01/msg00129.html At what point did Mitel take over ? Was it still e-smith 4.1.2

[discussion] Distrowatch and outward appearances

2014-01-31 Thread John Crisp
I just read the 'comparison' at Distrowatch. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20140106 The comments were interesting as it was from an outsiders perspective and I have short listed a few here. Interestingly we seemed to be one of the more popular to review !!! I think a lot of the

Re: [discussion] Distrowatch and outward appearances

2014-01-31 Thread John Crisp
On 31/01/14 14:58, Charlie Brady wrote: On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, John Crisp wrote: Would it be appropriate to have links in the relevant manager sections to documentation either locally or on the website ? Mitel's server manager has a help link in the top corner of each server-manager

Re: [discussion] Distrowatch and outward appearances

2014-01-31 Thread John Crisp
On 31/01/14 11:39, John Crisp wrote: I just read the 'comparison' at Distrowatch. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20140106 FYI I wrote to Jesse thanking them for their review and to clarify a few points for the record. I have had a VERY nice reply and they would like to include some

[discussion] NZ trip Business development

2014-01-29 Thread John Crisp
Finally got time to put pen to paper. Where on earth did January go ?? And December come to that ? Following my trip to New Zealand I had the opportunity to meet Tony Keane, our secretary, face to face. It was fantastic to meet him and hope we will do so again before we get much older. I wish I

Re: [discussion] GPL/ownership (Re: Koozali history assistance)

2013-10-23 Thread John Crisp
On 23/10/13 20:39, Les Mikesell wrote: Lots .. :-) All interesting stuff but complete OT. All I wanted was some factual history. Can anyone please add to the original question or I'll make sure I won't let truth get in the way of a good story and make it up myself ;-) B. Rgds John PS If

[discussion] Koozali history assistance

2013-10-22 Thread John Crisp
Hello all. We are trying to write a potted history for Koozali SME server for Stephane and the new website. We really need some help on dates. I have kind of roughly mapped a bit out, and nicked some stuff from distrowatchwhich badly needs updating (all notes and tongue in cheek at the minute)

[discussion] Board meeting 30th June

2013-07-01 Thread John Crisp
Dear all, First, if you are reading this then thanks for sticking with us :-) FYI, yesterday the Board convened for a meeting. We actually used video and voice, and despite a nervous Chairman, one member struggling to decant his home brew beer, another with a recalcitrant mobile phone, and a few

Re: [discussion] SME 8.0 ISO refresh?

2013-06-19 Thread John Crisp
On 19/06/13 23:06, Charlie Brady wrote: Gentlemen, let's stop talking about it and start doing it. Followup to bugzilla please. First time I have ever been called a gentleman. Thanks for the compliment Charlie ;-) Point taken. ___ Discussion

[discussion] contribs.org hardware is moving this weekend

2013-06-13 Thread John Crisp
. B. Rgds John Crisp on behalf of contribs.org ___ Discussion about project organisation and overall direction To unsubscribe, e-mail discussion-unsubscr...@lists.contribs.org Searchable archive at http://lists.contribs.org/mailman/public/discussion/

[discussion] Foundation

2013-05-01 Thread John Crisp
. A number of people you may possibly have expected to see here were contacted, but for various good reasons they were unable to join in. However I can assure you that they are fully behind us. So welcome to the new 'Board' : Main Officers : President : John Crisp Secretary : Tony Keane Treasurer

Re: [discussion] Fwd: Nmap Project Seeking Talented Programmers for Google Summer of Code

2013-05-01 Thread John Crisp
On 26/04/13 11:07, chris burnat wrote: Just noticed this. Food for thoughts. Could SME benefits from the Google Summer of Code program? chris Be great but I don't know we would get near it this year. Next year might be a better bet. B. Rgds John

[discussion] SME update

2013-04-18 Thread John Crisp
Hi all, I just wanted to post a quick note on behind the scenes progress. I had hoped that by now we could have posted some proposals for one and all to consider, but as is the nature of things it has taken longer than expected and there have been one or two last minute hitches. I can only

Re: [discussion] SME Server Legal Entity

2013-04-06 Thread John Crisp
On 06/04/13 16:03, Nuno Rafael Gomes wrote: Having an 'Inc' does a couple of things psychologically. 1. We (collectively) have actually ACHIEVED something organizationally (aside from coding) here and now. 2. Sends a signal to others that WE CAN agree on something, AND implement it. 3.

Re: [discussion] The future of SME Server

2013-04-05 Thread John Crisp
Hi ! On 05/04/13 21:43, Chris Pelon wrote: Hi All I run a small business IT services company in the US and we have just started to play with the SME 8 software. So far it seems like a very nice project, and it would be only natural for us to help improve it. Excellent news :-) I

[discussion] Teams and volunteers

2013-02-25 Thread John Crisp
Sorry - cross posting to try and get maxi attention. Please reply JUST to Discussions One of the biggest problems I have right now is knowing who is doing what. I know there are a whole bunch of people out there beavering away like mad. There are others watching from a distance and not sure how

Re: [discussion] [devinfo] Teams and volunteers

2013-02-25 Thread John Crisp
80 bugs waiting for verification - I cannot get any more specific than that. I've made a page for it and its linked from the forums http://wiki.contribs.org/Verification_Queue Ah, now there's a thing. Can we list the order of statuses involved in the bug process if they aren't already. e.g.

Re: [discussion] How to reach out to the community when help is needed.

2013-02-13 Thread John Crisp
On 14/02/13 00:21, Gavin Weight wrote: On 13 February 2013 21:18, John Crisp jcr...@safeandsoundit.co.uk wrote: We all walk, but have you don't think about how difficult it really is until you watch a baby trying to take its first few steps. It's difficult, and yet we all do it with ease. We

[discussion] SME Management and Future

2013-01-29 Thread John Crisp
Hi, I have finally finished writing some notes on the potential management and future of SME. They can be read here (sorry about the awful formatting - it's not my forté) : http://wiki.contribs.org/The_future_of_SME_Server This is an open document for discussion, not specifically a plan in

[discussion] Planning and management

2013-01-21 Thread John Crisp
Hi all, just to keep people in the loop so you don't think everything has gone quiet again. I meant to have written up some ideas and posted for comments by now, but having chatted for the planet on IRC nearly 24/7 for 3 days, I ran out of time ! I have got some stuff part written and will try

Re: [discussion] SME Constitution and Directors

2013-01-18 Thread John Crisp
On 18/01/13 18:25, Greg Zartman wrote: One other point. It would be nice to have say an IRC channel to be able to hang out on and bat a few ideas about. Anyone have any suggestions ??? We tried to do something like this some time ago and it was met with much resistance and those of us who

Re: [discussion] [Off-topic] Re: Tools (Re: The Future of SME/Contribs)

2013-01-16 Thread John Crisp
On 15/01/13 20:00, Charlie Brady wrote: [Apologies to those who aren't interested in development environment topics.] It's not that I am not interested, as I think you are well aware. It's a very interesting point that should be discussed, at the right time, and in the right place. But

Re: [discussion] The Furture of SME/Contribs

2013-01-14 Thread John Crisp
On 14/01/13 15:44, Hsing-Foo Wang wrote: It all starts with settings goals and milestones 1. Transit SME8 (CentOS 5.8) over to SME 8.5 (CentOS 6.3) AS IS 2. Timeline SME 8.5beta1: April 1 2013 3. contribs/how-to conversions by respective owners 4. Timeline SME8.5 FINAL: June 2013 5. Set

Re: [discussion] User interfaces (Re: Mitel Managed Application Server)

2013-01-14 Thread John Crisp
On 15/01/13 00:54, Charlie Brady wrote: the documentation and watching the webcasts I've already pointed to. Have you already done that? Has anyone here? 'I have', he said smugly not that I'm necessarily any the wiser ;-) But I sure as hell know why, even as a non coder, I found PHP