[RWP] ok people, lets fix the reaaccess site

[Scott Chesworth]

Hi chaps,

I own the ReaAccess.com domain and hosting, and am holding my hands up
looking pretty guilty as I write this. There was talk of a wiki-based
system here a while ago if you recall? I thought that a sensible move
would be to make the domain a forum because:
A) It's easier to post knowledge to that than to a wiki, so after a
while people could just cherry-pick the best topics and make them
sticky.
B) it would encourage a sense of comunity between users, perhaps more
sharing of example projects/templates/whatever.
C) Most of the action happens in the forum at reaper.fm, it seemed
right that we should fall in line with that model.

Having thrown BBPress onto the domain, I moved job/house/had some huge
real life changes to grapple with which totally got in the way of
finishing up, and as Brian rightly says, it's slipped further and
further down the things to do list. Before reading this thread, it was
buried in the cluttered corner of doom I reserve for avoidance. This,
obviously, is not good enough.

I checked the domain today and was incredulous at the amount of spam
that has been racking up in my absence, in spite of several anti-spam
measures being installed. After a bit of research into BBPress, it
would seem that it too is at something of a standstill, so as neat and
stripped down as it is, it probably isn't the right basket to put our
eggs in.

So, this is a call to arms. Do we have amongst us a techie type who
can get the framework in place? Personally, I'm still taken with the
idea of a forum, but anything is preferable to what's there now. I'd
do this myself, but real life is still far too hectic. I can and hope
always to be able to meet the other commitments I've made to the
ReaAccess developer, but they are my strong suit, hence they take far
less time than the webbie stuff in which I'm a bit of a newbie, all be
it a keen one.
Hosting-wise the payments are taken care of, you'd have 5 MySQL
databases to play with, PHP, Apache2, could probably get shell access
if I request it, and more bandwidth per month than you could shake a
stick at. Appreciation-wise you'd have a comunity of 50 upward mailing
list members, which means somewhere between 5-10 actual contributors
if previous projects are anything to go by.

As an insentive to get things off the ground, I can tell you that
Ivan, the dude that makes all this happen is very close to a new
release. We've got good stuff happening with sends/receives/the master
track amongst other perks such as multiple and non-contiguous
track/item selection. It's a round off the edges type release, but I
think you're all going to like it. It would be super awesome if we
could get some momentum back as a comunity and keep Ivan enthused,
because once he gets going he works like a demon.

Any takers? Feel free to email on or off list, the choice is yours.

Thanks much, and sorry once again for falling so far behind with the
state of the domain. I assure you that I haven't been sitting on a
beach sipping cocktails.

Scott

On 12/22/10, Derek Lane <derek at pdaudio.net> wrote:
> I'd be willing to help in  any way, if it let the reaaccess team spend more
> time
> developing
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Bryan Smart
>   To: Reapers Without Peepers
>   Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 6:04 PM
>   Subject: Re: [RWP] ok people, lets fix the reaaccess site
>
>
>   Right now, the site is a Wordpress. That's fine if a single person wants
> to maintain the entire site. It isn't as easy for a team of people to
> collaborate on a Wordpress site, though. The best that you can do is to add
> several people as authors, and give them permission to post articles in
> certain areas of the site. They can't update any of the site structure, or
> perform any other large scale edits.
>
>
>
>   It's obvious that the ReaAccess people don't have the time to work on the
> site. They can either let the site be another obligation that they can't
> meet, dragging them down, or they can deligate part of the work to others in
> the community. In the first case, the site will only be updated irregularly
> and in spirts, if ever, and it will be harder to attract new users to your
> project. If the second, then you need to put a system in place for
> deligating the tech writing projects.
>
>
>
>   If you have the time to rearchitect, then it would be better to create a
> site based on Drupal or Joomla. That would give you lots of options for
> passing out responsibility of different areas of the site to different
> people. You can, for example, create authors that can only write in their
> assigned section. However, you can also create users to serve as editors.
> Editors would be trusted users that can write or edit in multiple sections.
> They'd take most of the editing/approval/site admin tasks off of you, while
> not being able to edit the core functionality of the site.
>
>
>
>   If you don't have time for any of that, then, at minimum, you need to
> create some users on your Wordpress site as editors, Give them assigned
> sections, such as FAQ, getting started documents, etc, and add widgets to
> the sidebar and archive references in the main body of the page that would
> display content that has been created in their sections.
>
>
>
>   Anyway, unless you're making lots of money, you can't come up with
> resources to do it all internally. You either must learn to spread the work
> around, properly supervised, or get buried under the mounting to-do list.
>
>
>
>   Bryan
>
>
>
>   From: rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On
> Behalf Of Derek Lane
>   Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 4:36 PM
>   To: Reapers Without Peepers
>   Subject: [RWP] ok people, lets fix the reaaccess site
>
>
>
>   The developers of rea access are some amazing people.  Their work is
> solid, and, at least for me, itlets me be very productive in tasks from
> tracking/mixing to mastering/restoration.
>
>   The problem is, the reaaccess site is  broken.  So it keeps the community
> from growing due to the fact that the actual project isn't available as a
> link, anywhere on the site.
>
>   If someone could  fix reaaccess.info, I'd appreciate it.
>
>
>
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