[OGDev] New OG dev personal introduction.

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:12:42PM -0400, Daniel Packer wrote:
> Dear Kake and friends,
> 
> I'm excited to be working with the OpenGuides source code for a new 
> application I'm developing with Michael Heimbinder (see 
> http://www.habitatmap.org). Thanks for the warm welcome, and as soon as 
> I get my own environment up and running, you'll start to hear more from 
> me. I think the team is fantastic and that's why I thought OG was a 
> great choice.
> 
> As for my background, I've been using Perl professionally for ten years 
> with a focus on content management and database driven web applications, 
> so I'm fairly comfortable with the technology being used. I'm also a 
> system administrator. Through my company, X To Infinity, I work on a 
> wide variety of projects by myself and with subcontractors, and I am 
> working to emphasize socially progressive, not for profit, and 
> grassroots work, as I find this work very rewarding and meaningful. For 
> fun I bake vegan cookies, ride my bicycle all over the place, go 
> jogging, play my guitar and sing badly, write articles for local papers, 
> and volunteer.
> 
> I may even try to make my own vegan/vegetarian resource with OpenGuides 
> if I have the time. First things first though, I struggled with various 
> installation issues yesterday, and my goal today is to get up and 
> running and detail my installation woes/insights.
> 
> Some topics that will likely come up in the near future relating to the 
> habitatmap project are: extending access controls, single sign on (Open 
> ID - LDAP - ?), performance benchmarking, cobranding the look and feel 
> (so that one site can take on many different skins), spam/abuse control, 
> forum integration, and google maps integration.

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the very thorough introduction, and welcome from me. It
sounds like we will be able to have a mutually beneficial existence, and
I'm really excited to have someone be able to work on the project in
this capacity.

I don't know if Kake has mentioned, but we're using trac fairly
extensively. It sits at http://dev.openguides.org/. To use it you'll
need an account which you can create at
http://dev.openguides.org/register.

The outstanding tickets are currently in a bit of a mess, but may give
you a few tips about what we've thought about some of these issues in
the past. Feel free to add new tickets/modify existing ones, perhaps
using a 'habitatmap' keyword.

We want OpenGuides to be extensible, so I'll try to accommodate what you
need from us as a development team, and I'm sure Kake will as well.

Cheers,

Dominic.

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