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Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Professional Open Source was "Request for quote: Content Management System"
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From: Matthew M. <ma...@tu...> - 2006-08-24 17:52:45
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What did we do to deserve such kindness? Thank you Greg. Let me know what I can do to help. Matt On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 07:50 -0700, Greg Morgan wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Please see the email message below. Ladies and Gentlemen RFQ is very > much in play for the phpWebSite community. I spent a good 45 minutes > going over the intent of the RFQ questions with Irving staff yesterday > while on my personal cell phone and on my lunch break at work. Since I > am a civil servant I cannot take funds for this project. However, I am > willing to do the following: > 1.) I understand the RFQ process. That gives the community one up on > the competition. > 2.) I want to finish the rough edges of the wiki documentation. This > RFQ will help do this. > 3.) I will sign the initial conflict of interest form. > 4.) If the community's RFQ response passes the initial screening and a > presentation is requested, I'll fund my airfare expenses to travel and > present at Irving Texas. > 5.) I'll wiki the RFQ as a "Will phpWebSite work for me?" type document. > 6.) Irving is a MS shop now but a new ITD director would like to look at > open source more. You see the question here is, "Do you spend your > capital dollars for Police and Fire--which re-elects people--or > vaporware such as software? The obvious answer provides an edge for a > proposal response. > 7.) I'll need several theme designers and developers in the major times > zones. Hehe--you see 24x7 support is easy to develop with an Internet > developed application. If Irving TX selects phpWebSite as the > successful proposal and if Irving TX selects you as part of the final > support solution offerings, then those that accept will need to fill out > a conflict of interest form, CIQ. > 8.) Perhaps singletrack or someone with a stable interest in phpWebSite > would consider hosting an asterisk pbx. For example, mhoynes, could > host a pbx and singletrack could host a pbx for developers across the > pond. The federated pbx system could provide both land line and VOIP > iaxy service to developers. This would allow Irving one point of > contact phone number. The pbx could then route the calls to the correct > federated staff based on timezone and availability. Irving really wants > a vendor that they can call to coordinate problems with. The proposal > can fund the costs of that pbx server. > 9.) Patches will be required for some of the items in the RFQ. 508 may > be one of them. > 10.) The RFQ is on short notice. I plan on have a long weekend and take > off Monday 8/28--the due date. I'll have the signed documents ready. > The proposal says, "Written quotes (Mail, Fax, Email with Signatures) > will be accepted until 5:00 p.m., August 28, 2006." If the document is > too large for email, then I'll need to have help or the ability to > create an Irving release on -comm so that they can download it. If I > have to Overnight the document, Next business cuts off on mid-day > Saturday. That may or may not be enough time. > 11.) Hehe...we don't need no stinking hardware in our proposal. The > proposal will point Irving to their existing WSCA (say as wisca) = > Western States Contract Alliance or something contracts. Most vendors > overcharge for hardware. The RFQ will recommend that Irving uses their > existing Dell or other preferred WiSCA vendor to drive the hardware > purchase and hardware support. They have an efficient system in place. > Moreover, Redhat or SuSe/Novell can be contacted for the OS support. > It would be up to Irving to decide on these options. > 12.) Hint Hint: We'll be going up against some very high dollar > proposals. If successful, there's a chance for some very nice stipends > out of this deal. HeHe...we're not selling software licenses. > CahChing! By the way, did I mentions there's the chance for some very > nice stipends? > 13.) I have tried to catalog various themes and modules here > http://phpwebsite-comm.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Third_Party_Themes > and here > http://phpwebsite-comm.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Third_Party_Modules > respectfully. Please send email responses for any themes or modules > that I am missing. > 14.) Please send an email response if you are interested in being part > of the support solution. > 15.) Even if you are not interested in the support solution, please be > willing to fix any modules bugs within the next 90 days. Moreover, > singletrack is ready to do the 0.10.3 release. Please do what ever you > can to help drive out any final bugs you see in his pending release > candidates. > 16.) Please help stardog refine the 1.0.x series. This is another edge > that the community already has in the proposal process. There's a nice > stable release and a new cutting edge version that has already reached a > great deal of stability. > 17.) So what if the proposal is not successful? The community will have > advanced the software a great deal. If you'd like to try other RFQs, > then you already have the infrastructure in place! A nice LinuxJournal, > Linux Format, or other trade publication article could really bring some > nice publicity to the phpWebSite project along with marketing of the > solution that would be in place. > > HTH, > Greg > > > Brian W. Brown wrote: > > Hello phpWebSite Dev list, > > > > This was emailed to me and we at the university cannot act on this request > > for proposal due to our role as a public institution. I thought, however, > > this might be of interest to our independent developers. > > > > Kind Regards, > > > > Brian W. Brown > > Director, Electronic Student Services > > Room 269, John Thomas Hall > > Appalachian State University > > Boone, NC 28608 > > > > Office: 828-262-7124 > > > > http://ess.appstate.edu/ > > http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/ > > > > ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- > > Subject: Request for quote: Content Management System - updated > > From: "James Donovan" <jdo...@ci...> > > Date: Thu, August 17, 2006 2:17 pm > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Good afternoon, > > We are requesting a written quote for: Content Management System > > Attached you will find an RFQ file detailing the required specifications > > of this request, as well as a Conflict of Interest Questionnaire (CIQ). > > If you already have a current CIQ form on file with the City of Irving, > > that portion can be disregarded. > > If you have any questions, please get in touch with the listed contact > > on the RFQ form. > > Thank you, > > James Donovan > > Micro-Computer Specialist > > Information Technology Department > > 972-721-4781 > > > > > > -- > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Good afternoon, > > We are requesting a written quote for: Content Management System > > Attached you will find an RFQ file detailing the required specifications > > of this request, as well as a Conflict of Interest Questionnaire > > (CIQ). If you already have a current CIQ form on file with the City of > > Irving, that portion can be disregarded. > > If you have any questions, please get in touch with the listed contact > > on the RFQ form. > > Thank you, > > James Donovan > > Micro-Computer Specialist > > Information Technology Department > > 972-721-4781 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFE7by1xyxe5L6mr7IRAsYxAJ9XyD+JljNSwyKWDpD/dl/h7q8KMwCdGoOH > v/cs5CTplKqIv7K5S/rpRag= > =5Pwa > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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