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

[Stelio Verzera]

Hi there,
so nice to "meet" you.
I'd love Italy to have a similar party!

Back to better means, our proposal is to help each other(s) in getting 
an unbranded, fully functional version of the original project, nothing 
more for the moment
:)

If you agree we could informally collaborate towards this goal.
We've tested it deeply and found some bugs, and little improvements to 
be done in the way functionalities are implemented.

Sorry if I am late in answering but I was out for an event
:)

Cheers
Stelio

P.S. no comments about the soccer match.....!


Il 01/07/2012 21:48, Bèr Kessels ha scritto:
> 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
>