13 Jan
2016
13 Jan
'16
1:11 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Brian Kantor <Brian(a)ucsd.edu> wrote:
The existing portal works fairly
well for a first cut at making one. Undoubtedly we'll refine it but that
depends on volunteers to do the design and programming (PHP, Javascript),
and so far several calls for volunteers have fallen on deaf ears.
This isn't completely true. You can grep the archives for "I'll be
happy to help with the programming" to find at least one offer.
Alternatively, my opinion is that Chris would get more help if the
project were open sourced. Now instead of recruiting volunteers, he
will have contributors. This allows for a lot more flexibility. For
example, a ham in one part of the world is stuck at home on a rainy
weekend is setting up an AMPR system and encounters a bug. Meanwhile,
Chris is enjoying a weekend away from the computer in a part of the
world with more favorable weather. With an open source project, the
first ham can dig around for the bug and send Chris a patch without
any pre-approval. When Chris returns, he can vet the patch before
applying it to the SVN [or whatever technology] repo. This
significantly lowers the bar for volunteers and administration.
If the portal is open sourced, expect a patch from me within the first week.
Tom KD7LXL
13 Jan
13 Jan
1:19 p.m.
New subject: Portal volunteers [was: Verifying the identities of IP coordinators]
On 1/13/16 1:11 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:
Alternatively, my opinion is that Chris would get more
help if the
project were open sourced. Now instead of recruiting volunteers, he
will have contributors. This allows for a lot more flexibility. For
example, a ham in one part of the world is stuck at home on a rainy
weekend is setting up an AMPR system and encounters a bug. Meanwhile,
Chris is enjoying a weekend away from the computer in a part of the
world with more favorable weather. With an open source project, the
first ham can dig around for the bug and send Chris a patch without
any pre-approval. When Chris returns, he can vet the patch before
applying it to the SVN [or whatever technology] repo. This
significantly lowers the bar for volunteers and administration.
If the portal is open sourced, expect a patch from me within the first week.
+1
The other point I'll make is I have no interest in helping out with a non-open
source project. If you want to continue with sponsoring a close source
project, don't expect many people to want to help.
73's W9CR
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1:27 p.m.
I don't have a lot to add to the recent back-and-forth here except that I
would like to volunteer my time and somewhat meagre talents. I learnt tcp/ip
from the KA9Q NOS
and it helped meat my job at IBM at the time in the early 1990's.
I live in North Carolina and believe there is already a coordinator in my
state. Backup? Eastern half of state vs western? Whatever!
73
Jim - KB2IYS
14 Jan
14 Jan
6:24 a.m.
New subject: Portal volunteers [was: Verifying the identities of IP coordinators]
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Tom Hayward wrote:
Alternatively, my opinion is that Chris would get more
help if the
project were open sourced.
...(snip)...
If the portal is open sourced, expect a patch from me within the first week.
Tom KD7LXL
I have to agree with Tom on this, getting the portal into something
public/open sourced is a excellent idea. If the reason is security through
obscurity then lets fix the security so that it doesn't need to be obscure or
get exploited.
Tim Osburn
http://www.m2os.com
W7RSZ / JG1MBR
https://instagram.com/tim.osburn/
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