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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Chris,<br>
Thanks for the update. Little point in doing things piecemeal,
given the limited resources.<br>
<br>
I certainly have no problem continuing my editing and admin work,
but my tech chops are pretty non-existent. So put me down wherever
that's fits on the volunteer list.<br>
<br>
How much is the paid Mollom subscription? If we need it to
continue anonymous, open publishing, then we need it. It's not IMC
if it's not anonymous, open publishing, so there shouldn't be too
much debate on it, unless the fee for Mollom is high. If so, then
maybe we need Plan B, but not sure what that would be at this
point.<br>
<br>
Short-term, if it's possible and we really don't have any other
option in getting things working again, it's reasonable to require
user registration as a temp measure. It's a bit of a compromise,
but a few other IMCs have done this under similar circumstances
IIRC. It can't go on indefinitely, as people might rumor-monger
over that, but there's so little global IMC stuff at the moment
I'm not sure that would be much of an issue. You do have to supply
a valid email addy to register, but that's no big deal under the
circumstances and an email addy is hardly identifying info, even
if not specifically anonymous. I'd be happy to write a message to
that effect and post it if you want to go with this as a stop-gap.<br>
<br>
I think splitting between the news IMC site and the organizational
IMC site is a good idea. Too much conflation of the two is simply
not a good idea for reasons I can go into at length if people want
me to. There's a long backstory to it of which I am probably one
of the few who knows the history of where all the pieces fit
together. There are good journalistic, legal, and organizational
reasons for us to continue making that differentiation and I doubt
that anyone else is likely even aware of this need to maintain a
separation, which having a separate organizational site would help
make clear.<br>
<br>
I realize the BoD is probably as overwhelmed as everyone else in
addressing this. However, they should be aware that it is the
website - not the building, etc -- that defines us as an IMC. That
makes it more of a priority than people may initially realize.<br>
Mike<br>
<br>
On 1/3/2013 12:41 PM, Chris Ritzo wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">It is sort of related. The database on the site is
so huge that it makes it a problem to migrate. I updated the
site a few weeks back to ensure that it would be secure, but
problems remain. Creating content (such as events for the
calendar) gives a WSOD now, and the site really need to have a
Mollom paid subscription if we're going to continue supporting
anonymous posting. There have been several instances of spam
comments when the free subscription is overwhelmed. Cron is
definitely not running automatically. The CiviCRM add-on is also
messed up- I attempted an upgrade a while back and it removed
the top Civi Menu, and recently I checked the old donation form
which appeared to be broken as well.
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<div>Rather than focus on these small issues like whether the
global newswire is updating, we really need to gather a group
of editors and admins to decide what to do for an upgrade to
the site. Kristina W began working on this as an americorps
member. As I see it, we need:</div>
<div style="">- a relevant news site that preserves the open
publishing component of the current site</div>
<div style="">- a separate organizational website about the IMC</div>
<div style="">- people to manage the sites and maintain them</div>
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<div style="">I'm open to being a part of this group if anyone
else is willing. My guess from past experience- no one will
step up and will just continue to expect volunteer techies to
fix or build things. This is entirely unsustainable.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Josh
King <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:jking@chambana.net" target="_blank">jking@chambana.net</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Mike,<br>
<br>
I imagine this is related to the site migration work that
Chris is<br>
doing. I'll take a look at this problem specifically when I
get a<br>
chance; I'm guessing that the periodic cron jobs are not
being run for<br>
the site.<br>
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On Thu 03 Jan 2013 12:12:42 PM EST, Mike Lehman wrote:<br>
> I wanted to check in again on this issue to see if
anyone has had a<br>
> chance to see what's up. The website is basically
non-functional for<br>
> readers at this point and has been since the 31st.<br>
><br>
> One additional issue I've found since a few days
back when this<br>
> started with the website update is that user
account settings are also<br>
> not accessible. I get this error message:<br>
> Fatal error: Class 'CRM_Contact_BAO_ContactType'
not found in<br>
> /home/docs/<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ucimc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/civicrm.module"
target="_blank">ucimc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/civicrm.module</a><br>
> on line 713<br>
><br>
> Mike<br>
><br>
> On 12/31/2012 9:33 AM, Mike Lehman wrote:<br>
>> More follow-up. Someone posted a continuing
event to the Community<br>
>> Calendar.<br>
>> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ucimc.org/content/middle-market"
target="_blank">http://ucimc.org/content/middle-market</a><br>
>> It also does not appear to update the public
calendar view when fresh<br>
>> entries are posted, as with the Newswires.<br>
>> Mike<br>
>><br>
>> On 12/30/2012 11:44 AM, Mike Lehman wrote:<br>
>>> There seems to be some issue with the
Newswires updating from the<br>
>>> database. We've received several new
articles (along with new spam<br>
>>> -- deleted), but these aren't visible on
the Newswire on the front<br>
>>> page. They also don't appear on the
separate Local and Global<br>
>>> Newswire pages. I looked at them to see if
there was some admin<br>
>>> action needed, but they appear to be the
exactly same as older<br>
>>> articles posted before the website update,
which do appear properly.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Also, the Recent Comments have disappeared
from front page, not even<br>
>>> a link to them. However, they are available
here:<br>
>>> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ucimc.org/comments/recent"
target="_blank">http://www.ucimc.org/comments/recent</a><br>
>>> And this Comments page does appear to be
updating properly, as<br>
>>> comments posted since the website update do
appear on it, unlike<br>
>>> with the article pages as noted above.<br>
>>> Mike<br>
>>><br>
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but because there is no such thing as a final goal." -Rudolf
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