On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Brian Kantor Brian@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
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
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
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
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