> I can help with brochure design if you give me content to work with. Rails
> localization is fairly easy, and we're already using it, somewhat, for all
> of the flash messages that appear when you've performed an action. We're not
> using it for all of the other in-interface text, but getting that
> localizable wouldn't be too difficult.
> The last bit is what worries me. We need to have a talk about what we mean
> when we say 'downloadable package' for Collabbit. It's really not very hard
> to get running right now. The hardest part, in my opinion, is setting up the
> web and email servers. The rest is really quite easy. And if someone isn't
> completely capable of doing server setup themselves, then they shouldn't be
> hosting Collabbit: that's just begging for security issues. I really don't
> know what would go into a downloadable package or how it would be expected
> to perform. Is it expected to be one-click or a simple wizard or something
> to set up Collabbit and a server? Because that very seriously worries me.
> (And, also, means that most of the work isn't really at all
> Collabbit-related.)
> Now, if by downloadable package we mean something that's just meant to run
> as a single instance rather than a collection of them, then yeah, this is
> something we need to work on. But someone's going to have to have a pretty
> convincing argument to get me to believe that making the entire setup of
> Collabbit super-easy is actually a good idea.
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Will Anderson <
> williamv.ander...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Good afternoon everyone,
>> I just met with a few gentleman from a a DOD contractor which works on
>> non-proliferation. They are investigating Collabbit and like softwares at
>> the instruction of the department of defense to include in packaged
>> offerings by the US to foreign partners. Their client at the DOD requested
>> they investigate Collabbit because the client saw/heard about Collabbit and
>> liked it.
>> The meeting went well with a basic demonstration and project history. I
>> answered basic questions about the technical infrastructure around Collabbit
>> (we host Collabbit by default as that's easier on organizations without ruby
>> on rails support) and downloadable packages (it's not pretty now but we plan
>> to make the downloadable code more usable in the future).
>> They seemed very interested in Collabbit's future ability to translate
>> into other languages. As I understand it, localization is relatively easy in
>> RoR and I passed that information along. There may be an opportunity to
>> partner with this company, should they decide to use Collabbit for anything,
>> as they have a professional team of translators who might be able to quickly
>> get Collabbit into another language.
>> I took a few action items from the meeting.
>> 1) Contact current users from the Salvation Army and Red Cross to ask if
>> they wouldn't mind standing as references for Collabbit.
>> 2) Create a brochure for prospective users that might be passed around
>> hand to hand and find it onto someones desk
>> 3) Do some quick research on localization and see what might need to be
>> built for Collabbit to efficiently support language switches
>> 4) Get some work done on creating an easy to install downloadable package
>> available on the collabbit.org site
>> I can start work on 1 & 2. Are there volunteers to help with 3 & 4 (and
>> the brochure, if you're handy with graphics and layout/)
>> Cheers,
>> Will
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