[steering] Migration plan (was: Gonna start calling votes)

[Marlene Bruce]

Sounds great.

Marlene

>  > Alternatively, we could take the e.o.uk stuff, geeklog (I think), and
>>  modify it for our needs.  Then we'd be using all open source stuff
>>  (likely at no cost): PHP, mysql, Linux, Apache, mailman, [sendmail |
>>  postfix | qmail | smail | exim], Perl, Python.
>
>I can see a lot of sympathy for that (or any other all free in both
>senses solution). And then we really *are* looking for a vanilla Linux
>host. No licenses to buy - just download, install & configure.
>
>Using a largely packaged solution (and this isn't exclusive to OSS
>solutions - Spectra would have been the same) also has the advantages:
>1) we're piggybacking on the work of lots of other people - developing,
>testing, more testing, documentation etc.
>2) therefore we can save our work for customisation rather than core
>functionality
>3) with the right solution, customisation will tend to be at higher level,
>so the barrier to new developers will be lower
>4) there will already be 3rd party developers with experience of
>customising that solution
>
>Essentially, you're talking about configuring & customising the top level
>of detail, rather than writing from scratch. Most of the problems an evolt
>cms needs to solve are now well understood and solved by many applications
>- which wasn't the case even in 2000, let alone when we launched the 1st
>site.
>
>Look at how fast I threw up an evolt-templated wiki
>Look at how fast John threw up the eouk site
>
>Cheers
>Martin