Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Sadly most of the slash-like thingies (especially slash itself) are big
> hunks of really, really grotesque code. I decided some time ago to write a
> very simple application myself, but have yet to spend the time I want to on
> it.
When I built our global systems intranet (2 weeks ago) upon
Slashcode, it took about 3 hours from "Lets do it" to "Here it is".
It works extremely well and we've had 0 problems. That's been my
experience anyway.
> I asked if anyone was interested in helping some time ago, and got little
> response. So... I'll ask again seeing that it's come up! :D As always,
> please spam me with your ideas... but preferably code or commitment. :)
I'll be more than happy help if you use Slashcode or something
similar. As for helping code from scratch, I would if I could.
One of the comments in this thread was "What/How would we use it?"
The first things a Slashcode based site would do is make
announcements on the web site more accessable to the committe
(meetings/events etc). It would improve the layout of the SLUG
website and make it more useful to the SLUG community as a web
portal (I should know, I'm responsible for the way the SLUG site
looks now - I expected my successor would have improved it by now).
Another benefit (and one of the reasons the systems team here wanted
it) was that it would potentially (and did) remove the traffic off
the mail groups or in SLUG's case, the mailing list. IM(probably
eschewed)HO, the mailing should mainly be for screams of
help/questions etc. A lot of the more interesting discussions (like
this) would be moved to the website, out of people's inboxes but
available should they care to read later or available in the search
engine should people do searches on discussions.
Just something to think about.
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