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
Sure - and if it got widely used the open sources could get a nice bonus on their resume. "I was part of the orignal team that developed the Phoenix board software now in use by over 2000 Internet communtites including ...."
But a sale does not have to require support. Go to a feature rich version 2, and sell it to WX or one of the other big names in board software. No support worries.
And I don't think open source neccesarily equals free. Intellectual labor is still work. ita and other put a lot of time and work into this. If they can find a way to get paid for this, it is wrong because ...
Incidentally, I don't know that such revenue would go to the buffistas. We did not the develop it. Of course if ita and Jon, Gud and others suddenly found themselvers with an unexpected sum of money , I suspect at least some of it would go to keep the board running. But that is because they are generous souls - not because of some obligation.
I think the main virtue of this board is we built it to look and feel and act the way we wanted it to, not that it does anything wildly different to any of the many other online discussion systems out there.
If other people want to set up a board, there are all kinds of off-the-shelf and free systems they can use, in Perl and PHP.
It seems a lot less buggy than most the other systems. And faster too.
I *think* sa said she'd have a look through, but really it would be great if a couple people could sift through them and make sure they're as useful as possible.
I did. It's tonight's I-am-so-glad-I-have-nothing-to-do-let's-help-the-Buffistas project.
since the only solid offer of up to speed PHP/MySQL assistance I've had has been from Burrell's DH.
Why do I find the fact that Cody does Coding so funny? However, it's stuck in my head that Cody's a Coder, Cody's a Coder...which really has very little bearing on the actual Cody, and more on my crazy fondness for puns.
Then you'll be really amused to find out that his family calls him Code.
t /natter
I was the one who mentioned selling the software as an alternative to WebCrossing -- which
is
outrageously overpriced -- but although my tone may have been joking, I was serious. However, in hindsight, it probably wouldn't be a good idea to try and profit financially from the software. The similarities to WebX might cause some ... umm ... snarkiness from Lundeen and Co.. Releasing it as Open Source, then ''profiting'' from the addition to your resumé, might be the way to go.
Question: Is there any way to change my login? I just found out that I will need to change my name and email addy if I want any privacy.
You can change your e-mail address, or have it not made visible. Ask an admin, and one of us will change your name.
Burrell, can you just re-register under a different name and email and leave the old one dormant?
BTW, for people who want free email that's not obvious - and gets virtually no spam - www.wrexham.net has a bunch of options.
