[Utr] UTR Project Plan - Technology Management

[Tami Hayes]

To add to that, what JL said was that he would share the code if we  
wanted it, but strongly recommended that we start ours from scratch  
rather than try to take his and jury-rig it.

Lenora


On Aug 7, 2009, at 6:08 PM, Elena de Maisnilwarin wrote:

> As an update: we had been in touch with JL regarding the Ithra  
> database (thanks Lenora for re-confirming that last week) and he  
> suggests we develop our own rather than re-using theirs.
>
> Regards,
> Elena
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Elena de Maisnilwarin <elena.de.maisnilwarin at shaw.ca>
> Date: Friday, August 7, 2009 6:05 pm
> Subject: UTR Project Plan - Technology Management
> To: jdharcus at telus.net,doerksen at island.net,smennill at shaw.ca,  
> ellana at telus.net,cristin at shaw.ca,wrenshenna at hotmail.com,  
> sweetsilentgirl at gmail.com,dcraknar at gmail.com,seneschal at tirrigh.org,  
> walkazon at hotmail.com
>
> > Moving forward, I think that Technology Management will have a
> > huge impact on the future success of UTR. Not that the other
> > projects aren't important - because they are - but I think that
> > accessibility is important.
> > Ithra hid a lot of their information; learning from that model,
> > I'd like our information to be as "out there" as possible.
> > Whatever we can share, we should. Since exchequer, archery,
> > seneschal, etc., handbooks are available to anyone to read -
> > would there be any reason we couldn't make that public?
> > Of course, the execution of that concept would depend on what's
> > in the Dean's section (other than the access to the database).
> > Speaking of the database - if Halima develops the database (and
> > that would be awesome), I would suggest that its design be
> > reviewed before implementation. Absolutely no reflection on
> > Halima (you know I think you rock, girl!), but since it would be
> > a long-time in use, review is good. If memory serves, Yrsa
> > indicated she has experience (?) and I do too, so that might be
> > a mini-design team. Frankly, the database design is probably
> > MUCH easier than the website interface...
> > Regards,
> > Elena
> >