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#16 2006-02-28 23:48:48
- nardo
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- From: tuvalahiti
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Re: TextProfessionals
good questions anark
my perspective is from a larger agency and advocating for txp as a mean clean solution for publishing/maintaining online information; IT managers are rightly wary of my suggestions : ) because they want to know how they’re going to get support, where can they subcontract specific jobs (integrating txp with other applications), server/security consulting & testing, migrations etc
but I also think this is of use to small to medium businesses, who perhaps have their server and txp installation going, but need a specific script written, or problem solved
I know there are some heavyweight web shops (like datafirm’s) that have their own custom solutions for dealing with 3 level navs (I think UW Admissions) and for some clients this would be essential … and this is the other side of the equation: an opportunity for businesses/developers to market txp-related services (whether that be plugin development, hosting, etc) and get financial reward for their involvement
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I should have checked drupal … but note that directory is essentially useless! doesn’t show the services offered and no way to browse/search against criteria …
… I remember finding some Australian companies that work with plone, and they also have a commercial entity that involves some of the core developers (providing custom solutions, training, consulting) … can’t find a plone professionals site on a quick search tho : )
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alex, you go for it! – this thread will hopefully be of use in that development
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Re: TextProfessionals
@nardo
IT managers are rightly wary of my suggestions
groan. aren’t IT (in corporate/government) folks just suspicious by nature? I know where I work we’re all MS and Groupwise and that’s it (one of the US’s larger cities) , if you can believe that. No one can install anything on their systems — the website is still in tables and doesn’t validate but they are IT. There’s no way for anyone to reach us through the internet (o wait, there’s an email form to webmaster . . . I’ll shut up. I know I’m off topic but don’t blame yourself, blame their lack of education . . . but then full circle I can see how a kick ass txpro site would help you out a lot. I’m just resistant to needing to do that education — after all they are IT. I told my guy not to use PHPnuke — his very first live open source project on a WAMP server and he did it anyway. He walked away from it for a year or more and one day I dropped by to see what the site was doing and it had been “hacked by Iranian students.” That was a great laugh I had. He’s still our webmaster and I still am not allowed to build an intranet site using open source.
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