[OGDev] open guides development

[Kake L Pugh]

On Fri 23 Mar 2007, michael heimbinder wrote:
> Now, I am working to upgrade my current website, www.habitatmap.org, and
> would like to use OpenGuides as the platform.  I hired a programmer to
> help me out, Rupinder Deol, whom I believe may have contacted you in the
> recent past.  Recently Rupinder has had to step down from the project due
> to family obligations, and that leaves me looking for another OpenGuides
> developer for Habitatmap.  Can you guys recommend someone for the job.

Hi Michael,

OpenGuides is designed to work pretty much "out of the box", so the amount
of work this would take does depend on what you want it to do that it
doesn't do already!  We already have Google maps integration, and I don't
think it would be too tricky to make our Google maps page (see e.g.
  http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?action=index;format=map;index_type=category;index_value=Circle+Line
or
  http://tinyurl.com/3ccukn
) do what yours does; the main difference I can see is that you have text
and an overhead view pop up when someone clicks on a marker, whereas ours
just offers a link to the page with the text on.

So it depends on what you want - more details would be very helpful.  Also:
were you wanting someone with design skills too, or purely programming?  How
about hosting?  Are you going to host and do the sysadmin stuff yourself
(upgrading, any database stuff, etc)?

Kake
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