[PPNL-Techteam] Bettermeans paltform and ...nice to meet you :)

[Bèr Kessels]

Hello,


On 01-07-12 14:06, Stelio Verzera wrote:
> I'm writing from Italy. 

Wishing you all good luck in the match tonight. You can use it, with 0-2
behind :'(

We've just seen that it seems you're the only
> one still working on the Bettermeans open source project currently!
> We've contacted the founders which are pretty busy on other stuff, but
> we'd really like to complete the project as it really is worth it in our
> opinion.
> 
> What's your position on this, and would you like to somehow cooperate on it?

I am participating in the TechTeam for the Dutch PirateParty. We needed
a place to assign, track and manage tasks and projects. The democratic
set-up and the overall interface seemed a perfect fit. However, the lack
of development is holding us a bit back.

Right now, I, being Rails developer, have two main targets:

* Getting it running on our servers. For which I need to strip some of
the obvious branding off the product: mostly static pages rewritten or
removed.

* Connecting it to our LDAP. So that our members, whom already reside in
our central database, get an account/login on the server without having
to register. For that I will remove rpx_now and replace it with either
Devise and LDAP, or some custim LDAP code. Depending mostly on the
technical details, which I have to find out, still.

If it proves to be the success whe think it coudl be, I will invest some
more effort, such as upgrading a few obvious gems, in-depth
security-reviewing and such. For that, I will try to get help from other
European Pirate Parties. Bettermeans sounds, in theory, like a
near-perfect match for such democratic groups.

But most of our effort will be maintainance: just keep it running smoothly.

Bèr

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