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. ;-)
Shaun (aka singletrack)
aegis design - http://www.aegisdesign.co.uk
aegis hosting - http://www.aegishosting.co.uk
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