[JDEV] Introduction

[John P. Looney]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 12:12:49PM -0500, Brian Gray mentioned:
> Hey folks.
> 
> My name's Brian, I just signed on a few minutes ago and thought I'd
> introduce myself.  I'm a programmer/analyst in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, working
> at a sports-based web company.  For a little while now I've been leading a
> team to create a distributed communications system to handle chat,
> persistent message boards, web-based email, and other sundry
> community-building tasks.  It's a big job, and it's planned to consume a
> lot of engineering resources.

 Before you get too busy, take a quick look at www.arsdigita.com. We are
doing a similar thing - big community site, based almost 100% on free
software[0], and found their "ACS", or the ArsDigita Community System to
be an excellent base for our efforts.

 ACS is very big, it's very scattered, and it's obvious it's never been
re-written, but together with AOLServer, it's an excellent basis for the
web part of a community system. Hopefully after we get everything
finished, we can try & release all our modifications to all the free
software, so setting up a "Community" would be a lot easier for other
people.

 I think David Waite is still working on a Java applet Jabber client, and
though it's not as likely to be flash (sic) as a shockwave one, it's
probably a good deal more portable (and awkward people like me disable
shockwave for no good reason).

Kate

[0] Horde/IMP, Qmail, AOLServer, TCL, Apache, PHP, are the free parts,
with Oracle, SpinChat and Intershop there because equivilant free software
wasn't good enough yet.
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