<div dir="ltr">If we ever need a TDWG organization on GitHub, I reserved the name about a year ago: <a href="https://github.com/tdwg">https://github.com/tdwg</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Kampmeier, Gail E <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gkamp@illinois.edu" target="_blank">gkamp@illinois.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Stan Blum is working with contractors on the new TDWG site. --Gail<br>
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Subject: Re: [tdwg] [tdwg-tag] another poke about Audubon Core status<br>
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Would a GitHub organization satisfy the requirements of the TDWG site?<br>
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- Dave V.<br>
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On 22 Sep 2014, at 8:46, Tim Robertson wrote:<br>
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> Hi Dan,<br>
><br>
> Thanks for your offer.<br>
><br>
> As far as I recall, the TDWG executive decided at the last meeting to<br>
> move onto a whole new platform and put contractor money aside to make<br>
> it happen.<br>
> I’m reluctant to point you at the tangled mess of the current system<br>
> when I suspect it is to be replaced anyway. It really is a convoluted<br>
> mess of Typo3 plugins, which try and keep a bunch of backend systems<br>
> in sync and dues to bugs in there it does not work as expected. I<br>
> really don’t think it is something you want to get into, but I<br>
> sympathise that the TDWG site is broken and no-one is maintaining<br>
> it… a simpler vanilla CMS solution that even requires more manual<br>
> text editing etc. will be a far more manageable solution in my<br>
> opinion.<br>
><br>
> @TDWG Executive folks - is it still the intention to contract out and<br>
> do a basic CMS site?<br>
> If not, I’ll try and pull up the code but I’d need your approval<br>
> to get him a DB dump as it holds user credentials / subscriptions etc.<br>
> Please can you advise us? Anything we can do to help?<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Tim<br>
><br>
><br>
> On 19 Sep 2014, at 23:05, Stoner, Dan <<a href="mailto:dstoner@acis.ufl.edu">dstoner@acis.ufl.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I see in the tdwg-tag mailing list archives that the status of the<br>
>> Audubon Core Standard has been discussed recently:<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-tag/2014-June/002558.html" target="_blank">http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-tag/2014-June/002558.html</a><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> So consider this another poke about getting the web site updated with<br>
>> the official status of the Standard.<br>
>><br>
>> If there is anything I can do to facilitate the web site update,<br>
>> please let me know (as in, I am volunteering to hack code or whatever<br>
>> is needed).<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Thanks,<br>
>><br>
>> Dan Stoner<br>
>> iDigBio / ACIS Laboratory<br>
>> University of Florida<br>
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