[Spi-private] Website re-implementation

[Ean Schuessler]

On Saturday 01 April 2006 12:04 pm, Neil McGovern wrote:
> As mentioned after the end of the last board I'm interested in helping
> with the website re-implementaion. This is probably not the best place
> for general discussion, so, anyone who's interested, please subscribe to
> spi-www at lists.spi-inc.org[0] and we can start talking on there :)

I would still be willing to help with a website overhaul. We've been building 
some infrastucture here at Brainfood (which will be released as Free 
Software) that greatly assists in building professional looking websites with 
a Wiki-level ease in editing. The system sits on top of OFBiz which provides 
fairly sophisticated business modeling capabilities.

Here are some sites built on top of the system:

http://checkmark.heart.org
http://www.parago.com
http://www.classifiedsforless.com
http://hello2.cellularone.com
http://www.brainfood.com
etc.

We have recently used the system to do the Sun Tech Days sites for 15 cities 
in Brasil. These sites are available at http://techdays.soujava.org.br and 
utilize the Copy On Write features of the wiki to do rapid provisioning. This 
technique provides the ability to create a template site that other sites 
"inherit" from and still provide the ability for each sub-site to be 
selectively edited. Basically like UnionFS with a Wiki interface.

OFBiz provides sophisticated inventory management and some nascent accounting 
capabilities (that would almost certainly be sufficient for SPI) that might 
allow the automation of some treasurer reporting capabilities. All the art on 
those sites listed above is done by my Brother and myself so we can add some 
value there as well.

Here's the rub... I can be a little bit of a pain to deal with and the system 
is written in JAVA! (However... Dalibor Topic, Tom Tromey, Mark Weilaard and 
some other very serious Free Java guys are helping track down what it will 
take to get OFBiz running on an all Free Java stack).

-- 
Ean Schuessler, CTO
ean at brainfood.com
214-720-0700 x 315
Brainfood, Inc.
http://www.brainfood.com