[tdwg] [tdwg-content] [tdwg-tag] another poke about Audubon Core status

Cynthia Parr csparr at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 19:57:20 CEST 2014


Last I heard from Stan (last month) he had not made progress on the new
website -- was still in the process of establishing the contract.

Time to push on this again :-(

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:58 AM, James Macklin <james.macklin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That was the answer in June too...
>> On Sep 22, 2014 9:23 AM, "Kampmeier, Gail E" <gkamp at illinois.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Stan Blum is working with contractors on the new TDWG site.  --Gail
>>>
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: tdwg-bounces at lists.tdwg.org [tdwg-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] on
>>> behalf of Dave Vieglais [vieglais at ku.edu]
>>> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 08:20
>>> To: Tim Robertson
>>> Cc: TDWG Content Mailing List; tdwg at lists.tdwg.org;
>>> tdwg-tag at lists.tdwg.org; Stoner,    Dan
>>> 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 at 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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