Just quickly, I got a short statement of work and budget worked out with the potential contractor last winter, but let the project go cold. That was entirely my fault. I had a couple contacts with them through the rest of the year just to maintain contact, and then started to push in late August. Key people were on vacation then, and since I’ve been pushing sending emails and making phone calls trying to get the project started.  But I’ve only gotten one response, they’re still interested, but they didn’t  tell me when we could start.  If anyone knows another Typo3 contractor, I’d be happy to engage with them instead.  (The one I’ve been trying to engage is in SF…   so I should go knock on their door instead of sending email and phoning.)  

I’m going to keep trying…

-Stan

From: tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of James Macklin
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To: Bob Morris
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Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] [tdwg] [tdwg-tag] another poke about Audubon Core status

I am also in favor of the GitHub repo but we really need to hear from Stan about the status of the work he was having done on the TDWG site. We will need to decide which is the "official" repo but as others point out there is likely good reason to have duplication! We also need to figure out who has time to do this if we go forward. Looks like there have already been a couple of hands partly raised ;-)

Best,  James

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Bob Morris <morris.bob@gmail.com> wrote:

That was the answer in June too...

On Sep 22, 2014 9:23 AM, "Kampmeier, Gail E" <gkamp@illinois.edu> wrote:

Stan Blum is working with contractors on the new TDWG site.  --Gail

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Subject: Re: [tdwg] [tdwg-tag] another poke about Audubon Core status

Would a GitHub organization satisfy the requirements of the TDWG site?

- Dave V.

On 22 Sep 2014, at 8:46, Tim Robertson wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> Thanks for your offer.
>
> As far as I recall, the TDWG executive decided at the last meeting to
> move onto a whole new platform and put contractor money aside to make
> it happen.
> I’m reluctant to point you at the tangled mess of the current system
> when I suspect it is to be replaced anyway.  It really is a convoluted
> mess of Typo3 plugins, which try and keep a bunch of backend systems
> in sync and dues to bugs in there it does not work as expected.  I
> really don’t think it is something you want to get into, but I
> sympathise that the TDWG site is broken and no-one is maintaining
> it… a simpler vanilla CMS solution that even requires more manual
> text editing etc. will be a far more manageable solution in my
> opinion.
>
> @TDWG Executive folks - is it still the intention to contract out and
> do a basic CMS site?
> If not, I’ll try and pull up the code but I’d need your approval
> to get him a DB dump as it holds user credentials / subscriptions etc.
> Please can you advise us?  Anything we can do to help?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
>
> On 19 Sep 2014, at 23:05, Stoner, Dan <dstoner@acis.ufl.edu> wrote:
>
>> I see in the tdwg-tag mailing list archives that the status of the
>> Audubon Core Standard has been discussed recently:
>>
>> http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-tag/2014-June/002558.html
>>
>>
>> So consider this another poke about getting the web site updated with
>> the official status of the Standard.
>>
>> If there is anything I can do to facilitate the web site update,
>> please let me know (as in, I am volunteering to hack code or whatever
>> is needed).
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dan Stoner
>> iDigBio / ACIS Laboratory
>> University of Florida
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