[gugs] Re: [IndyACP] [Fwd: interest in migrating imcSlash to slash 2.x codebase]

[EwS]

Ok, yo tengo que echarle un vistazo al codigo de slash porque nunca lo 
he leido pero cuenta conmigo....

Miquel wrote:
> este fin de semana pasado, ha estado por Madrid Rolando de Aguiar, uno
> de los techs de Indymedia Philadelphia (autores del hack de slashcode
> que usamos en la ACP) y hemos hablado de la posibilidad de retomar en
> serio la vieja idea de portar indymedia a slash2.x. La empresa es dura
> (pero merece la pena) por lo que requiere un equipo de gente bastante
> dispuesta a meter tiempo y esfuerzo en ello.
> 
> este mensaje va dirigido a aquellas personas que deseen participar en un
> posible nuevo proyecto para la migracion de Indymedia a slashcode 2.x,
> juntando a los hackers de philly con gente de Madrid y Barna que ya ha
> mostrado interés, mas otra gente que esteis interesados en participar o
> que conozcais que pueda estarlo (enviadles el mensaje adjunto).
> 
> saludos
> 
> --m
> 
> 
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> 
> Subject:
> interest in migrating imcSlash to slash 2.x codebase
> From:
> "rolando de aguiar" <rolando en propagandarama.org>
> Date:
> Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:32:50 -0400 (EDT)
> To:
> gcr en users.sourceforge.net, isidore en users.sourceforge.net, 
> joshmarcus en users.sourceforge.net, jowaxman en users.sourceforge.net, 
> maldoror en users.sourceforge.net, rolando en users.sourceforge.net
> 
> 
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> hi all-
> 
> i had a great trip to madrid over the weekend and had the opportunity
> to meet up with some of the wonderful folks who contribute to the
> continuing vitality and creativity of the madrid IMC (also known as
> "ACP": agencia en construccion permanente or agency under permanent
> construction): http://acp.sindominio.net as you probably know, madrid
> is the other imc that uses the imc-slash "hack" to run an IMC open
> publishing website.
> 
> about a year ago (maybe before) philly imc folks had discussed
> migrating the imcSlash software from a Slash 1.05 to Slash 2.x code
> base, to take advantage of slash 2.x's (much more) modular
> architecture. however, there was not sufficient energy to sustain
> such an effort, which would have effectively been a rewrite of the
> work done up to and during the 2000 republican national convention.
> 
> my trip to madrid, though, revealed that there is global (or at least
> transatlantic) interest in keeping IMCSlash up to date, creating
> slash plugings/modules for things like open publishing, a sensible
> ratings system, breaking news, the imc cities list, etc., and
> creating a set of beautiful imcslash templates (see
> www.template-toolkit.org), fully supported in slash 2.x.
> 
> to that end, i want to revive our sourceforge project, our mailing
> lists, etc., so that we can proceed with such an effort. this could
> be a project of the philly imc tech team but i think it would be
> better to take on as its own entity.
> 
> the effort will need to be bilingual to some extent. i can get around
> in spanish (though i think i pretty much made a fool of myself trying
> to explain "american opinion" on the war in iraq) and miquel is
> capable if not confident with english.
> 
> this message is addressed to the current list of developers on the SF
> project (see
> https://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=7507) and
> I've CCed miquel and the tech en phillyimc.org group. if you are
> interested in being a part of the effort--in sys or db admin, coding,
> documentation or testing--or if you were part of the original
> imcslash effort and do not want to go through it again, please let me
> know.
> 
> also, please forward this message to others you think would be
> interested. when we do feel like we have critical mass (corpspeak?)
> to start a project, we can figure out how to notify/publicize our
> efforts to the slash and indymedia communities at large.
> 
> - - ro.
> 
> rolando de aguiar      rolando en propagandarama.org
> philadelphia, pa, us    http://propagandarama.org
> public key @ http://propagandarama.org/pubkey.asc
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