jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Mar 24 07:16:49 CDT 2010
Susan, I need everyone I can get. In the end this will be a large project and I am certain that it will take a large team to complete. I will need to get a web server up and available to the team. I would like to do this in .Net simply because that is something that many of the people on this list want to learn how to use. I am open to other tools but before I select another tool I want to know that .Net is not going to work. I assume that means ASP.Net. I will also need to get a SQL Server available. Or maybe MySQL, I am open to that. I happen to be somewhat familiar with SQL Server and not at all familiar with MYSQL so of course SQL Server would be my first choice. Plus I have SQL Server at my fingertips. While we are doing development I am thinking of setting up one or more virtual machines on my servers to host this stuff. I have a VMWare server and virtual machines already created; I use VMWare for other things. It would be fairly easy for me to get a couple up and running and ready to go. I would like to build a pair of VMs that think they are a self contained network, exposed to the internet so that people could come in and work. Try to minimize the security risk to the rest of my network. I would also like to use source control from the getgo. And then there is documentation. So as you can see, there are many areas of expertise, lots of stuff to do. I don't think it will be hard to find something for everyone to do. Thanks for volunteering. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Klos, Susan wrote: > John, count me in also. I am not familiar with .net but have built websites using a text editor and knowledge of html code. I would be more than willing to help where I can and learn new things. I am an advocate for cross browser coding. It should look good in browsers other than IE. I used to use Cold Fusion for getting data from and to a database on the server. I could learn .net I am sure. > > If you need further assistance feel free to contact me. > > Susan Klos > Senior Database Analyst > Florida Department of Education > Evaluation and Reporting Office > Phone: 850.245.0708 > Fax: 850.245.0710 > email: susan.klos at fldoe.org > > > Guys, > > Please bear with me for just a bit of explanation. > > Because my daughter has a genetic problem which causes her a variety of medical issues, I have > become involved in an organization that is training my wife and I to be advocates for people with > disabilities. The organization is called Partners in Policymaking (PIP) and their intent is to > train individuals with disabilities, or caretakers for people with disabilities to be effective > advocates. > > First of all anyone (in the US) who has a disability or is a caretaker, I highly recommend the > following site as it provides a ton of links to other sites for specific issues. > > http://www.partnersinpolicymaking.com/ > > For my state the link is: > > http://www.ncpartnersinpolicymaking.com/index.html > > PIP is a national organization but each state has their own organization to provide training in that > state. PIP provides a series of about 9 monthly trainings (16 hours, once a month) on a variety of > issues. Each participant (me) has to do a project. > > While PIP has a web site and stuff, what they do not have (or I haven't found) is an effective > system for allowing every PIP graduate from every state to find each other and communicate. For my > project I have decided to try to leverage my technical abilities (and contacts!) to try and build a > system for coordinating the graduates. > > What I want to do is build a web site. BUT I do not do web sites! But it really needs to be a web > site. Sigh. > > So (THE PURPOSE OF THIS EMAIL) I am putting out a call for anyone who wants to get involved with a > good cause and knows anything at all about building a web site (in .Net). I am going to be involved > in this. I am going to learn everything I can about every phase of this, but I need help. > > I expect to have a fairly large database of contact information, including email addresses. I > expect eventually to broaden the base to anyone with a stake, people with or caretakers of people > with a disability. > > Eventually I would like to build a system similar to one belonging to: > > http://consumer-action.org/ > > This organization collects email addresses for consumers who want to affect legislation. Someone at > consumer-action.org then monitors legislation before congress and emails us consumers when > legislation is about to be voted on. More importantly it provides a way, through their web site, to > SEND EMAIL to MY legislators (based on my zip code). > > Way cool, way easy to send the email to my legislator. > > I want to do that for disability rights legislation. I need help. > > Anyone interested in helping please raise your hand, get with me, and let's make this thing happen. > > Thanks, >