Last I heard from Stan (last month) he had not made progress on the new website -- was still in the process of establishing the contract.
Time to push on this again :-( On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:58 AM, James Macklin <[email protected]> wrote: > I am also in favor of the GitHub repo but we really need to hear from Stan > about the status of the work he was having done on the TDWG site. We will > need to decide which is the "official" repo but as others point out there > is likely good reason to have duplication! We also need to figure out who > has time to do this if we go forward. Looks like there have already been a > couple of hands partly raised ;-) > > Best, James > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Bob Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That was the answer in June too... >> On Sep 22, 2014 9:23 AM, "Kampmeier, Gail E" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Stan Blum is working with contractors on the new TDWG site. --Gail >>> >>> ________________________________________ >>> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on >>> behalf of Dave Vieglais [[email protected]] >>> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 08:20 >>> To: Tim Robertson >>> Cc: TDWG Content Mailing List; [email protected]; >>> [email protected]; Stoner, Dan >>> Subject: Re: [tdwg] [tdwg-tag] another poke about Audubon Core status >>> >>> Would a GitHub organization satisfy the requirements of the TDWG site? >>> >>> - Dave V. >>> >>> On 22 Sep 2014, at 8:46, Tim Robertson wrote: >>> >>> > Hi Dan, >>> > >>> > Thanks for your offer. >>> > >>> > As far as I recall, the TDWG executive decided at the last meeting to >>> > move onto a whole new platform and put contractor money aside to make >>> > it happen. >>> > I'm reluctant to point you at the tangled mess of the current system >>> > when I suspect it is to be replaced anyway. It really is a convoluted >>> > mess of Typo3 plugins, which try and keep a bunch of backend systems >>> > in sync and dues to bugs in there it does not work as expected. I >>> > really don't think it is something you want to get into, but I >>> > sympathise that the TDWG site is broken and no-one is maintaining >>> > it... a simpler vanilla CMS solution that even requires more manual >>> > text editing etc. will be a far more manageable solution in my >>> > opinion. >>> > >>> > @TDWG Executive folks - is it still the intention to contract out and >>> > do a basic CMS site? >>> > If not, I'll try and pull up the code but I'd need your approval >>> > to get him a DB dump as it holds user credentials / subscriptions etc. >>> > Please can you advise us? Anything we can do to help? >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > Tim >>> > >>> > >>> > On 19 Sep 2014, at 23:05, Stoner, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> >> I see in the tdwg-tag mailing list archives that the status of the >>> >> Audubon Core Standard has been discussed recently: >>> >> >>> >> http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-tag/2014-June/002558.html >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> So consider this another poke about getting the web site updated with >>> >> the official status of the Standard. >>> >> >>> >> If there is anything I can do to facilitate the web site update, >>> >> please let me know (as in, I am volunteering to hack code or whatever >>> >> is needed). >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> Thanks, >>> >> >>> >> Dan Stoner >>> >> iDigBio / ACIS Laboratory >>> >> University of Florida >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> tdwg-tag mailing list >>> >> [email protected] >>> >> http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-tag >>> >> >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > tdwg-tag mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-tag >>> _______________________________________________ >>> tdwg mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg >>> _______________________________________________ >>> tdwg-content mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> tdwg-content mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > tdwg-content mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content > >
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