Andy: So here's the deal. We'd love the assistance.
But we need to understand what you're offering to do. I suppose we should say up front that everything we build is in the public domain. The code you write would have to be something you're willing to freely share. More importantly, what are you intending to write? We broke down the application into three pieces: a database on the back end, a front end for each year caretaker to get access to their data to make updates, and a front end for users, to search/browse the data. In what manner do you see your contribution occuring? Right now, we've actually got a php app for stakeholders to update their portions of the deadlists site and a database for the purpose -- both of which conform to the data spec. The trouble has been: almost none of the data conforms to the dataspec, and the caretakers aren't able (either time or attention to detail) to translate their data into the spec/database format. We have also seen a lot of progress on the user front end, in ASP. A version, that didn't get quite as intricate as the dataspec suggested it might, was built a while back. But we've never stiched the pieces together, in large measure because of the data's state of readiness, and because stiching together the different environments proved cumbersome. So, I guess the next step would be to ask where you see your contribution to this mix? I realize you've stated that you want to do "the whole thing". But I'm not sure what "the whole thing" would look like, how it would work, where it would live, who would have access on the back end, and on the front end, as a year caretaker, and so on. So yeah, let's take that next step, iron out those details, and move forward! --Nathan (By the way, I've copied the list on this email, so that they're aware of what's going on. But we can continue the rest of it offline, as we dive into the details -- and just come back to the list what we're ready to describe how it's going to work for users and for caretakers, to make sure we're not missing anything.) ===== Nathan Wolfson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com
