qscada-developers

[Qscada-developers] hi again, and sorry for the silence!

[Iain B. <ia...@ne...>]

Hi all,

this is just a quick note to let you know that I am still alive!  My job
and life have had a few sudden changes lately that have seen my load
increase a bit more than I expected - and just to make sure I couldn't
do anything, evolution crashed every time I accessed my QScada mail dir
- I only just tracked it down to a mail from James (thanks a lot! ;)

I wouldn't feel so bad except that I did take on the web page role, and
I haven't touched for months.

Well, I'm sitting a couple-of-thousand km away from home in a small town
working on a control system for a new power station for the soon-to-be
population boom (recent mining sector boom).  Hopefully I'll get out of
here this weekend, and I'll get some time to read all these emails that
have been bouncing back and forward.

PS - merry christmas, happy new year, sorry to see you have to let go a
bit Poalo, and good work to Jovan.  And as always, keep it coming James!

I'll get back into it soon :)

cya,
-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

Some people say a front-engine car handles best.  Some people say a
rear-engine car handles best.  I say a rented car handles best.
		-- P.J. O'Rourke

Re: [Qscada-developers] hi again, and sorry for the silence!

[Fred H. <fre...@ma...>]

If there is need of a dedicated QScada project web page, I would be
willing to provide initial setup and dedicated hosting of a Joomla CMS
website (www.joomla.org) over my new corporate bandwidth.  In addition,
I could add web-based project management capabilities via dotproject
(www.dotproject.net)

The project leader would simply need to determine which team members
will have whatever applicable degrees of access and administration.

Please let me know if this would be helpful and/or relevant to your
needs.

Best Regards,

Fred Hensley


-- 

Best Regards,

-Fred-

Fred Hensley
President, Magnum Instruments
fre...@ma...
214-206-1932 (V)
214-206-1957 (F)
http://www.magnuminstruments.com
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 21:27 +0900, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this is just a quick note to let you know that I am still alive!  My job
> and life have had a few sudden changes lately that have seen my load
> increase a bit more than I expected - and just to make sure I couldn't
> do anything, evolution crashed every time I accessed my QScada mail dir
> - I only just tracked it down to a mail from James (thanks a lot! ;)
> 
> I wouldn't feel so bad except that I did take on the web page role, and
> I haven't touched for months.
> 
> Well, I'm sitting a couple-of-thousand km away from home in a small town
> working on a control system for a new power station for the soon-to-be
> population boom (recent mining sector boom).  Hopefully I'll get out of
> here this weekend, and I'll get some time to read all these emails that
> have been bouncing back and forward.
> 
> PS - merry christmas, happy new year, sorry to see you have to let go a
> bit Poalo, and good work to Jovan.  And as always, keep it coming James!
> 
> I'll get back into it soon :)
> 
> cya,

Re: [Qscada-developers] hi again, and sorry for the silence!

[Jovan K. <cho...@gm...>]

Hi Fred,

On 3/21/07, Fred Hensley <fre...@ma...> wrote:
> If there is need of a dedicated QScada project web page, I would be
> willing to provide initial setup and dedicated hosting of a Joomla CMS
> website (www.joomla.org) over my new corporate bandwidth

Welcome on board ;)

I wanted to suggest the same thing, migrating the QScada web page
on Joomla, but didn't have enough time to reply :(

> I could add web-based project management capabilities via dotproject
> (www.dotproject.net)
> The project leader would simply need to determine which team members
> will have whatever applicable degrees of access and administration.
> Please let me know if this would be helpful and/or relevant to your
> needs.

That would be great, please do that.
It would be great to have some place where we
can track all our pending/finished tasks

BEST REGARDS, Jovan
P.S. Sorry if you received this message twice :(

Re: [Qscada-developers] hi again, and sorry for the silence!

[Fred H. <fre...@ma...>]

Hello Jovan and everyone,

Thanks very much for the kind welcome to the team.  Although I am just
beginning to dust off some old programming skills, I can immediately
assist the Qscada project by providing some administrative support.  In
addition I am a sitting member on several North American IEEE standards
committees, including the 1159 power quality standard, 1159.3 PQDIF,
1250 Voltage Quality working group, and several others.

I have put together a preliminary QScada project web page for collective
review based upon Joomla which should prove very helpful.  The URL is
http://www.qscada.org, but it may take up to 24 hours before the new DNS
address has fully propagated around the globe.

In addition, I have also created a dedicated dotproject site for
tracking project milestones, tasks, resource management, etc. at
http://www.qscada.org/projects.  There is now a guest login ready
allowing read-only access with username = "guest" and password =
"qscada". If the appropriate person can email me the names and email
addresses of all approved development team members, I will setup each
with full access accounts and privately email them temporary passwords.
Upon their first login, they can change their passwords to whatever is
appropriate and edit their remaining user preferences accordingly.

Hope this helps, and I look forward to participating on the team.

-Fred-
 

On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 17:23 +0100, Jovan Kostovski wrote:
> Hi Fred,
> 
> On 3/21/07, Fred Hensley <fre...@ma...> wrote:
> > If there is need of a dedicated QScada project web page, I would be
> > willing to provide initial setup and dedicated hosting of a Joomla CMS
> > website (www.joomla.org) over my new corporate bandwidth
> 
> Welcome on board ;)
> 
> I wanted to suggest the same thing, migrating the QScada web page
> on Joomla, but didn't have enough time to reply :(
> 
> > I could add web-based project management capabilities via dotproject
> > (www.dotproject.net)
> > The project leader would simply need to determine which team members
> > will have whatever applicable degrees of access and administration.
> > Please let me know if this would be helpful and/or relevant to your
> > needs.
> 
> That would be great, please do that.
> It would be great to have some place where we
> can track all our pending/finished tasks
> 
> BEST REGARDS, Jovan
> P.S. Sorry if you received this message twice :(
-- 

Best Regards,

-Fred-

Fred Hensley
President, Magnum Instruments
fre...@ma...
214-206-1932 (V)
214-206-1957 (F)
http://www.magnuminstruments.com

Re: [Qscada-developers] hi again, and sorry for the silence!

[wireless <wir...@ta...>]

Iain Buchanan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this is just a quick note to let you know that I am still alive!

Yea, sure,   There's rumors to that effect.....


>  My job

Darn,

I have when work gets in the way of useful projects.... I know, I've
been swamped with building a network for a client....

> and life have had a few sudden changes lately that have seen my load
> increase a bit more than I expected - and just to make sure I couldn't
> do anything, evolution crashed every time I accessed my QScada mail dir
> - I only just tracked it down to a mail from James (thanks a lot! ;)

My pleasure; just let me know what I did, so can understand which
attachment/url/whatever hosed your software.


> 
> I wouldn't feel so bad except that I did take on the web page role, and
> I haven't touched for months.
> 
> Well, I'm sitting a couple-of-thousand km away from home in a small town
> working on a control system for a new power station for the soon-to-be
> population boom (recent mining sector boom).  Hopefully I'll get out of
> here this weekend, and I'll get some time to read all these emails that
> have been bouncing back and forward.

Yea, yea, you've been skirt_chasin and playing 'hide and seek' with
the natives again...... not to mention consuming the local beverages.....

Don't tell me, all that fun, now you feel sick and have to 'play
doctor'.........
I'd sure like to get lost in the OutBack for a few months.....
Although, life here in Florida, is not too_too bad.



> 
> PS - merry christmas, happy new year, sorry to see you have to let go a
> bit Poalo, and good work to Jovan.  And as always, keep it coming James!
> 
> I'll get back into it soon :)
> 
> cya,


I've got about another month of crazy work hours and traveling, before
I'm back in the office for a while...

cheers mate!


James

Re: [Qscada-developers] hi again, and sorry for the silence!

[Jovan K. <cho...@gm...>]

On 3/21/07, wireless <wir...@ta...> wrote:
> > Well, I'm sitting a couple-of-thousand km away from home in a small town
> > working on a control system for a new power station for the soon-to-be
> > population boom (recent mining sector boom).  Hopefully I'll get out of
> > here this weekend, and I'll get some time to read all these emails that
> > have been bouncing back and forward.
>
> Yea, yea, you've been skirt_chasin and playing 'hide and seek' with
> the natives again...... not to mention consuming the local beverages.....
>
> Don't tell me, all that fun, now you feel sick and have to 'play
> doctor'.........

There is one student organization that I know, ther moto is:
Learn hard, party harder.
Ian's case would be: Work hard, party harder

LOL

 BR, Jovan

[Qscada-developers] Draft QSCADA Web Page Template

[Fred H. <fre...@ma...>]

Please check out the draft style template for a QSCADA web page at www.qscada.org.

There isn't any real content uploaded yet, but it would be helpful to get some 
early feedback and confirm this is where you want to go.

As far as useful content for the web site, the sky is the limit.  As an initial suggestion, 
I might suggest the following sections:

1.  New messages and announcements from the project leadership.
2.  A link to the Sourceforge download area for QSCADA.
3.  A link to the dotproject project management web site (www.qscada.org/projects)
4.  A file upload/download area specific to the vision documents and pending s/w design documents.
5.  A forum for user/industry feedback to the pending designs.
6.  A survey section where online surveys can gather feedback from utility, industrial, and commercial users
7.  A contact area with information regarding the development team.
8.  Email addresses setup for the development team (e.g. jha...@qs...)
9.  A registration process (via community builder) for the user community and for access to site-specific info.

After QSCADA is eventually released, we could also add these type of sections:
1. A news section with success stories implementing QSCADA (once it is completed and released).
2. A google global map indicating QSCADA implementations around the world.
 
The Joomla content management system provides extremely flexible means to add and administer content.

Please let me know what kind of functionality would best serve your collective needs.

-Fred-



Fred Hensley
President, Magnum Instruments
fre...@ma...
214-206-1932 (V)
214-206-1957 (F)
http://www.magnuminstruments.com

Re: [Qscada-developers] Draft QSCADA Web Page Template

[Jovan K. <cho...@gm...>]

Hi,

Fred thank you very much for yuor efford.

I was going to send you a link with some Joomla
templates but you were faster :)

Anyway, here's the link http://www.joomlaos.de/
You can get some ideas from there.

I don't like the blue color in the background it
is too strong, and the gap on top is too big.
I like pastel colors more, but majority decides.
What are the others thinking?


You've stuctured the contents very well.
I would just add a Google map of the developers

Cheers, Jovan

Re: [Qscada-developers] Draft QSCADA Web Page Template

[Reza A. <azi...@gm...>]

Great work guys.



On 3/23/07, Fred Hensley <fre...@ma...> wrote:
>
> Please check out the draft style template for a QSCADA web page at
> www.qscada.org.
>
> There isn't any real content uploaded yet, but it would be helpful to get
> some
> early feedback and confirm this is where you want to go.
>
> As far as useful content for the web site, the sky is the limit.  As an
> initial suggestion,
> I might suggest the following sections:
>
> 1.  New messages and announcements from the project leadership.
> 2.  A link to the Sourceforge download area for QSCADA.
> 3.  A link to the dotproject project management web site (
> www.qscada.org/projects)
> 4.  A file upload/download area specific to the vision documents and
> pending s/w design documents.
> 5.  A forum for user/industry feedback to the pending designs.
> 6.  A survey section where online surveys can gather feedback from
> utility, industrial, and commercial users
> 7.  A contact area with information regarding the development team.
> 8.  Email addresses setup for the development team (e.g.
> jha...@qs...)
> 9.  A registration process (via community builder) for the user community
> and for access to site-specific info.
>
> After QSCADA is eventually released, we could also add these type of
> sections:
> 1. A news section with success stories implementing QSCADA (once it is
> completed and released).
> 2. A google global map indicating QSCADA implementations around the world.
>
> The Joomla content management system provides extremely flexible means to
> add and administer content.
>
> Please let me know what kind of functionality would best serve your
> collective needs.
>
> -Fred-
>
>
>
> Fred Hensley
> President, Magnum Instruments
> fre...@ma...
> 214-206-1932 (V)
> 214-206-1957 (F)
> http://www.magnuminstruments.com
>
>
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Re: [Qscada-developers] Draft QSCADA Web Page Template

[Fred H. <fre...@ma...>]

Hello Everyone,

As requested, I have updated the QSCADA web site template
(www.qscada.org) to something less "blue", more stylish, and have
changed it a three pane design.

The project management web site is up and running too
(www.qscada.org/project).  

What I now need are the names/email addresses of the development team to
setup your accounts.  If everyone involved will send me an email, I can
take care of that for you immediately.

Earlier I had suggested several content items that may be useful for the
web site.  Are any of these ideas worthwhile to consider?  Please advise
what would be most helpful for the development team.

Best Regards,

-Fred-
fre...@ma...


On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 09:37 -0500, Fred Hensley wrote:
> Please check out the draft style template for a QSCADA web page at www.qscada.org.
> 
> There isn't any real content uploaded yet, but it would be helpful to get some 
> early feedback and confirm this is where you want to go.
> 
> As far as useful content for the web site, the sky is the limit.  As an initial suggestion, 
> I might suggest the following sections:
> 
> 1.  New messages and announcements from the project leadership.
> 2.  A link to the Sourceforge download area for QSCADA.
> 3.  A link to the dotproject project management web site (www.qscada.org/projects)
> 4.  A file upload/download area specific to the vision documents and pending s/w design documents.
> 5.  A forum for user/industry feedback to the pending designs.
> 6.  A survey section where online surveys can gather feedback from utility, industrial, and commercial users
> 7.  A contact area with information regarding the development team.
> 8.  Email addresses setup for the development team (e.g. jha...@qs...)
> 9.  A registration process (via community builder) for the user community and for access to site-specific info.
> 
> After QSCADA is eventually released, we could also add these type of sections:
> 1. A news section with success stories implementing QSCADA (once it is completed and released).
> 2. A google global map indicating QSCADA implementations around the world.
>  
> The Joomla content management system provides extremely flexible means to add and administer content.
> 
> Please let me know what kind of functionality would best serve your collective needs.
> 
> -Fred-
> 
> 
> 
> Fred Hensley
> President, Magnum Instruments
> fre...@ma...
> 214-206-1932 (V)
> 214-206-1957 (F)
> http://www.magnuminstruments.com
> 
> 
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Best Regards,

-Fred-

Fred Hensley
President, Magnum Instruments
fre...@ma...
214-206-1932 (V)
214-206-1957 (F)
http://www.magnuminstruments.com