Spike ,'Smile Time'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
You probably want to look into some sort of open-source licensing to protect it from being swiped by unscrupulous sorts.
The original suggestion that ooked me was just handing over the code and walking away. I'm still weirded out by that. The version where I'm still back office, and can nurse the puppy -- I'm okay with. And until it was weaned, I think it would be borrowed code.
Not that that'd stop the unscrupulous, but it wouldn't be distributed, per se.
t feels feet slipping out from under her into the mysterious dark end of geekness
Uh ... OK. What ita says.
I was also thinking that perhaps we should look into setting up some sort of backup hosting somewhere, putting a copy of the code on it, and using that as our contingency plan in the event we go down.
I think this is a good idea. Maybe a streamlined, easy-maintenance version with limited threads.
A copy of the code and the user database, I'm guessing. And the database will need to be periodically manually refreshed from the master one.
Right, and to make things easy, we could point buffistas.com at it.
I'll need to check the referrer logs, to see how many users we have coming in from buffistas.com to org. Though, we could still have .com bounce to .org unless case of emergency and all that. But that means Tom or I (as things stand) would need to be the ones to break the glass.
Gus pointed out over in Firefly that we're just a little over 100 posts from the end of that thread. One suggestion is "Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains" originally suggested by Allyson here
Allyson "Firefly 3: Too Damned Pretty to Die" Dec 1, 2004 11:30:15 am PST
and then modified by tommyrot to add the "Also" here
tommyrot "Firefly 3: Too Damned Pretty to Die" Dec 1, 2004 1:37:21 pm PST
Just wanted to say I vote for it.
On the code issue, I think programming-savvy stompies such as DX, amych, Plei, and most especially ita and Tom should have the final word. You're the best judges of how lending/leasing it out would impact your workloads. I really think it's the code/content mix that's essentially the Phoenix Board; I have no problems with other approved groups using the same format if you guys are willing to share your hard work.
Firefly 4: Pound the button, we'll come.
Firefly 4: Waiting for the button.
Firefly 4: There'll be poems and songs, just you wait.
As one who hasn't worked on the board's guts, as ita, Jon, and Tom go, so goes my nation.