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Submitted by stefano on 18 January, 2008 - 13:49.

I decided to move the NASPRO-devel mailing list from Sourceforge.net to Freelists.org and to create a new mailing list (which I just set up): the NASPRO-news mailing list, a low traffic newsletter for those who want to stay informed about the progress of NASPRO.

Interested people: please, subscribe!

Good. And...

Submitted by forart.eu on 21 January, 2008 - 19:14.

Just subscribed to the NEWSletter.

Anyway, as I already suggested (and not just to you) a "tell-a-friend"-like promotion tool would be very useful, IMHO.

Marco Ravich
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>>Forward Agency
In progress we (always) trust.

Marco, you know it's not

Submitted by stefano on 22 January, 2008 - 01:56.

Marco, you know it's not that I'm not listening to you, it's just that I've so little time.

You already know that this website will move to some other hosting service sometime near or far in the future, and also know what happened/is still happening when someone makes promises which he can't/doesn't want to hold... I'm talking about the fact that we should've had a new website and, most importantly, someone taking care of it.

I just can't do everything: code, spread the word, look for cooperation (something might happen soon, at least), study at this braindead university, look for (a.k.a. create and purpose) NASPRO-related apprenticeships with companies/institutions, take care of the website and the mailing lists (and hopefully we're just 3 in 2 mailing lists...), all of this with such modest results (apart from the code, which is of incredible quality to me - but I'm biased). All of this is really demoralizing already.

Yours is undoubtely a useful, cool and wise idea, but putting it in practice means also checking that everything works fine... and it is non-trivial at the moment, also because Sourceforge.net has serious issues with e-mails (as you've already noticed sometime ago, user registration is already painful, and that just takes 1 or 2 e-mails).

In other words, I think it is absolutely lower priority than getting 0.1.0 out at the moment, but it has to be done sometime in the future.

Or am I just saying bullshit?

3rd-party

Submitted by forart.eu on 23 January, 2008 - 08:45.

I posted a similar suggestion to Domenico (aka greybear), the PicoFlatCMS author, and he seems interested in implementing such kind of script.

I hope NASPRO could use it even on an off-site space (i can share my association' PHP website for this task)...

BTW, as I already expressed before, you must manage the development itself.
I can spread the word, look for cooperation, look for apprenticeships with companies/institutions for NASPRO but I need the guidelines.

At the moment I can just spread the website news in some forums... (es. HA.org news)

Marco
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>>Forward Agency
In progress we (always) trust.

There's a Drupal module that

Submitted by stefano on 23 January, 2008 - 15:38.

There's a Drupal module that already does that, but the problem is that Sourceforge does not let me easily send e-mails around. Those should be sent by a PHP script invoked by a shell script launched by cron, but the fact is their shells do not work right, so it happens that mails can remain in the "mail box" for months before being sent.

An off-site space wouldn't help either, since you would have to have remote database access to Sourceforge to retrieve content. It would be pure pain, if even possible at all.

So maybe the best thing to do is find a valid hosting service and move the website. And that requires some effort too, obviously. :-)

As said, I'm having exams now, so I guess I have no time for anything... If I'm to concentrate on something now, it must be development.

Ok, now talking about what you can do already, yes, I have got to send you some guidelines on who to contact, how and what to tell them (just guidelines anyway). As said I'm not for aggressive promotion now that we have no release out, but we've got to find at least a competent web developer who wants to take care of the site.

Developers and feedback will come, I'm sure. I'm having many contacts lately regarding NASPRO, but I can't spell out names now.

Regarding university apprenticeship, I don't think you can do much... at the moment I found an accademic tutor who can follow me, but no company/institution willing to "hire me" for free for 300 hours of full-time work on the project... maybe your association could do that???