[Spi-private] Website re-implementation

[Warren Noronha]

Hehe any one For Ruby on Rails :)


Best Regards,
Warren Noronha.
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On 07-Apr-06, at 6:57 PM, Ean Schuessler wrote:

> 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
>
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