[cumbria_lug] LUG radio & GPL in court

[Schwuk]

trevor at haven.demon.co.uk wrote:
> Schwuk's Dilemma

You're habit of a) replying to several threads in one email and b) 
replying to a thread in another thread is quite distracting. Anyway...

> Schwuk, I am looking into this area too and I have plumped for using 
> PHP with MySQL as most (Linux) web hosting provides that combination. 

I'd pretty much reached that conclusion already. After all, what's the 
point of creating something to be used if people can't use it?

> I am also grabbing every bit of pre-wrote script and modifying it for
 > my use as I really do not re-invent the wheel

> The only good reason to re-invent the wheel is to discover how
> it works, if you want to build a cart use someone elses wheel.
> So do you want to write a CM because you need a CM ? or because
> you want to WRITE a cm ? Do you need new features ? have you
> looked at the available CM's to see if one that fits your
> requirements (even partly) and is available under an open source
> licence ?  What options are available from your Hosting 
> company ?  

I'm halfway between the two - I'm a great believer in code/component 
reuse and building blocks, but not making a square peg fit a round hole.

I'm writing my application because a) there's nothing else I can find 
that does everything I want, b) I have particular views about how things 
should be done (in particular web 'standards'), and c) because I want 
to... :)

In theory, I could take a couple of OSS projects and merge/link them, 
but it wouldn't provide the level of integration I want, and in most of 
the cases certainly wouldn't satisfy b) above.

 > Since we are both working on similar projects would you be interested
 > in a joint project ?
 > Would people be interested in a LUG project ?

I would be interested in a joint/LUG project. I'll do a brief write-up 
on what I'm planning later tonight... Some of the 'goals' you mentioned 
could be handled by my system as well...

> I will be organising some live web space next week (pay-day) 
> with PHP and Mysql database access for testing purposes. I will
> probably run the live site from this space too. I have a budget
> of £80 p.a. from the club concerned for web hosting. The current
> site at http://www.sasrafrp.co.uk is very poor and out of date.
> Since I am a member of the club I may pay an extra 1.99/month for
> the web space and run some stuff of my own there too.

Perhaps this is something the we could do as a LUG - I will be evicted 
from my current online 'home' shortly, along with Adam Pigg and Mat 
Brunt (who piggy-back off me). Having experienced the heady heights of 
having full root access to a box, I don't really want to go back to 
managed hosting. If the LUG were to lease a dedicated server, would 
people be interested in chipping in? It could certainly host your SASRA 
site, and I might be able to sell some hosting as well - esp. to the 
other people who are using my current server. All of these would make it 
cheaper for us LUG'ers.

Cheers,
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