well for filebase it was a todo for a long time, the software itself is free (paFileDB) and after i managed to get it working on the server, it took 2 evenings to implement extra features and the PMB spend one day on skinning, so all in all a perfect project, it took only a few days to get to done properly. Since then i added two minor features and do not intend to work more on it. But we also need someone organising the stuff from time to time, so that is a point where i could imagine someone like SoUlFaThEr, in case he, or someone else, want to take the job of filebase manager, i could revert that all mod's can fidle around in the database and the manager can decide who will be able to edit the whole database.
for the wiki i can see it's needed to to some work, that's why we need a BU media resource kit to allow easier skinning, and the wiki code is free, it's "phpwiki 1.3.7", i will make a download avail in the filebase (category BU development). Also the wiki can/should be made a separate web-project so that someone can take it over, and work on it like the others who are hosted here, with the difference that it's not his site but the BU wiki he is managing/running.
For the IRC i see that Squalman has offered his help and this looks promissing for me, i will ask Nova on what to do if we want him to do the IRC manager
cheers (ATM still in a heck of a hurry)
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Originally Posted by botmeister
Ok, I agree that we need to allocate more human resources to some of these systems. Let's start looking around for more people who can help out.
I'm learning my way around Linux fairly well, will soon be learning some PHP and how to configure Apache web server, etc. As soon as I think I can lend a hand I'll jump in.
I'd like to make one important point, perhaps we are creating more work for ourselves than is neccessary. If we have too many open projects going on at the same time, then we get fragmented and nothing tends to get completed. Perhaps we should focus on only one or two things at a time until completion - by completion I mean "working well enough" because nothing is ever fully complete.
It may also be worthwhile to set up the ability for people to make contributions to the coding of some of the projects. For example, if the filebase code was publicly available, anyone could fix the bugs without having server access, so long as there's someone made responsible for coordinating the updates, etc.
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