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RE: Flora's future

From: broyds_-at-_home.com (Bill Royds)
Date: 30 Apr 2000 10:45:38 -0400
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10004291208500.11648-100000@calcutta.flora.ottawa.on.ca>

Russell, look at 
 http://ww.vicinities.com/gacc 
   and view it as guest. You don't need to register to view public contents, only for private contents.
It is not so much a web hosting area as a group information site. It allows for calendaring, discussion,  mailing list formation (who is on a committee, who wants to go on a trip etc.), file sharing, publishing of documents. It is based on the Cold Fusion product which is closed source but PHP should also be able to do much of the functions. It is an interesting start for design because it has flaws as well as good points. Looking at it can give some ideas for Flora.


-----Original Message-----
From: Russell McOrmond [mailto:russell@flora.ottawa.on.ca]
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 12:13
To: Bill Royds
Cc: keb@Cyblings.ON.CA
Subject: Re: Flora's future


On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Bill Royds wrote:

> I got your reply about Bobby and noticed the link to this in your signature.
> 
> I am quite interested in the idea of community meeting places online
> as I am moderator of the Greenspace Alliance mailing list which has

  I will be interested to hear what you like about Vicinities, what you
don't like, and so on.  I am not registered there (Don't have time to
register everywhere so tend to only use sites that don't require
registration) so your feedback will be greatly appreciated.

  IF you could, post to flora-admin-design@flora.org (AKA: Newsgroup
flora.admin.design ) as this will be one of the main conferences where the
newer tools will be discussed.

> community collaboration but as a proprietary site using software that
> is not available for all users. I would like to work to make flora
> handle this too.

  My hope is to have any of the 'FLORA' scripts also made available.  As
you'll note from the www.flora.org/flora/server/ the intention is to make
FLORA able to be replicated easily by others by just installing the
software as listed there.
  I've not been happy with the current NEWS reader system partly because
it is such an ugly hack I don't want to publish it.  With the new software
I'm hoping this will change.

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