Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Paying Work: PhotoAlbum modification

[Jim W. <spi...@us...>]

> From: Shaun Murray
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I've got a long term community project on at the moment which is  
> growing in scope daily and needs some extra developers. As and when  
> the features mature enough in our requirements I hope I can pass on  
> the dev work to the relevant module developers and for them to  
> possibly get some payback for their time if they are available.
> 
> The project is a community of creative industry pros, freelancers and  
> artists here in this part of West Yorkshire, UK. It's part government  
> funded which means there's 'some' money about but we're trying not to  
> use it all up straight away so we can keep the project running for as  
> long as possible. The server is paid for, for a year for instance but  
> marketing probably will last till December.
> 
> Hopefully once it's running I can attract some more funding either  
> via members or the various arts and media funding bodies which can  
> continue development funding. Where I am in the post-industrial north  
> of England, they like funding things like this to regenerate local  
> industry although I just missed out on one round last week.
> 
> We're also implementing this as branches so once we've rolled it out  
> to the creative industry, we hope to add branches for other parts of  
> the local community such as rural development, a youth/kids branch,  
> business assoc or whatever.
> 
> Anyway,
> 
> The first thing on the list is for each user to have their own  
> personal photoalbum that they can upload their own work into. That  
> way we can create a portfolio of every artist, sculptor, designer or  
> whatever and the world can view their photoalbums yet each user can  
> manage their own individual album.
> 
> Unfortunately, Darren, photoAlbum's developer, is doing the 'working  
> too hard with multiple jobs and school' lifestyle thing just now so  
> has declined the offer, so if anyone else fancies it, drop me an  
> email or catch me on #phpwebsite
> 
> The site is going live at the beginning of October so it's being  
> based on the 0.10.x codebase as fallout will be a little fresh for us  
> by then unfortunately.
> 
> Any work must be passed back to the phpWebSite community and be  
> completely open source. AppState will have the right to include it in  
> the main codebase, or not as they wish. You wouldn't believe how long  
> I spent arguing with the local gov legal dept that code had to be  
> given away. 
> 
> 

Hi Shaun,

This seems just a little vague, but the photoAlbum module is fairly simple so it shouldn't be hard to find help.  The photo albums all have an "owner" property so basically all you have to do is check against that.  You might want to add an admin option to "change the owner" of a gallery, but really if you aren't adding dozens of these at a time, you could just as easily type an update statement into some sql admin tool in order to assign owners to albums.  There should be no need for a specific module maintainer to take this particular task on.  Anyone who has written a phpwebsite module could do it.  I would, but I guess I'm doing the same "working too hard...lifestyle thing" (as everyone else?).

Off the topic a bit, your local government legal department is actually correct.  The code does not have to be given away.  If you choose to redistribute the modified GPL or LGPL code in some way, then the changes must be distributed in the same manner as the original code (e.g. under and according to the terms of the GPL).  Just the same, kudos to you for convincing them to release all the work :-)

Best regards,

Jim Wilson