On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:50:35 -0500
"David E. Cohen" <david_e_cohen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> It looks like English, and I'm sure it makes sense, but I got lost
> somewhere in the second sentence. LOL
OK, looks like some de-geeking is required...
> > My main concern is how much utility the site has.
What did people get from the site? It seems that everything has been on
the Yahoogroups for awhile, which is fine unless they convert to a paid
service or their advertising becomes unconscionably aggressive. If the
only remaining purpose of the website is to point people to the groups
then I can have the site up in no time.
> > I need to
> > convert the database from Access to MySQL and change all the
> > directory paths to lower case.
There is no way to access the MS Access database on the fly from a
website that is hosted on a non-Windows Operating System. Also, the
directory structure needs to be cleaned up.
> > Since there's no interest in
> > continuing development, the most likely course of action from that
> > point is to try Mono to see if it works with minimal hassle then
> > convert it to PHP if I plan to add or repair functionality without
> > the benefit of any ASPies.
Two of the more common ways of serving content to the web that is
stored in a database are ASP and PHP. You don't need to know what the
abbreviations stand for, just that PHP is usually used on Linux and
other *nix systems, while ASP is used with Windows. It's now possible
for me to host an ASP site on my Linux machine using a program called
Mono, but I'm not going to learn any more ASP than I have to to get the
site working with Mono and the new database. If there are to be new
things added to the site there are two ways that it will happen. Either
someone who works with ASP will volunteer or I'll run the pages through
a Linux program called "asp2php" and do my best to get the resulting
code working so that I can grow the site.
> > My priorities and course of action
> > depend largely upon what the stakeholders would like from the site.
Stakeholders is another piece of jargon. It refers to those who have an
interest in the site. It seems at this point as though that is a small
number indeed.
> > At this point, my only contact has been with those who are burnt
> > out on the project. My wiring is a little different, so it's a
> > little difficult to understand what I'm asking for when I solicit
> > input.
When I ask what people want, I don't mean that I'm going to finish it
this weekend. It just means that I want information that can help me
set my priorities. Websites are the public face of my efforts, after
email they come first.
Chris
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