New Member

[smith...@gmail.com]

Hello,

My name is Jay Smith. I am a systems administrator and website
developer for the Lantern at the Ohio State University. We are
currently running a College Publisher site. I am joining the group
after speaking with Albert Sun about his experiences with CoPress and
Drupal (as well as hosting options). I am interested in keeping in
touch with this community and hopefully contributing to the
organization as I gain some experience in this area. I have only been
in my position for about 3 months, so I will find it helpful to hear
from other people who are involved with college newspaper websites. I
have some experience with WordPress and Drupal, mainly as a hobby. I
hope to learn from the more experienced group members.

Jay

[Adam Hemphill]

Thanks for introducing yourself, Jay, and welcome!

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http://www.adamhemphill.com
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[Greg Linch]

Hi Jay,

In what ways would you be interested in contributing beyond the community? Also, what kind of tech skills do you have?

Best,
Greg

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM, smith...@gmail.com <smith...@gmail.com> wrote:

[smith...@gmail.com]

Greg,

I used to do tech support for Applecare, I am pretty good at
troubleshooting Macs and PCs. I run a small webserver for a business
and am developing a Drupal site for that. I am also working towards
moving a company's website from standard html/css to a wordpress
format. I expect to have that done by the end of the school year (only
work on it in my spare time). I expect to become proficient at WP
during this process. I have used it in the past, but would not
consider myself an expert at this point.

I am interested in assisting people with troubleshooting software
issues and contributing ideas for the usage of WP plugins, etc. I also
hope to develop my PhP skills and assist others with some coding
stuff. This is my first time doing development stuff as part of my
full time job, so I want to be exposed to as much technical stuff as
possible, and hopefully share those experiences with others who need
help.

Eventually, I would like to work on open source wordpress plugins that
would enhance the platform to mimic much of the functionality of
College Publisher. I don't know enough about coding now, but I have
been studying object oriented stuff for a while now and hope to write
some stuff that others could use.

I am probably just going to check out the other posts in the group and
investigate terminology that looks unfamiliar until I get up to speed
on everything. I have only been at this job for a few months and am
sure that I will be able to offer a lot more to this community as I
gain experience.

Thanks,

Jay

On Feb 21, 5:34 pm, Greg Linch <gregli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jay,
>
> In what ways would you be interested in contributing beyond the community?
> Also, what kind of tech skills do you have?
>
> Best,
> Greg
>

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM, smith.3...@gmail.com
> <smith.3...@gmail.com>wrote:

[smith...@gmail.com]

> Hi Jay,
>
> In what ways would you be interested in contributing beyond the community?
> Also, what kind of tech skills do you have?
>
> Best,
> Greg
>

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM, smith.3...@gmail.com
> <smith.3...@gmail.com>wrote: