Ok, I've been meaning to try to arrange another meet and greet for a
while now, and someone reccomended to me a particular venue that I
thought would work well, so I thought I would toss it out there.

Every term, the Dal-ACM throws an Installfest in the Dal Computer
Science building. The summer one is being run on April 22nd.

While an 'Installfest' generally implies people doing linux
installations and the like, traditionally the event has been used as a
springboard for other things, from programming to robotics projects.

There will also be food and beverages (and beer at some point I hear).

More details available here: http://wiki.dal-acm.ca/InstallFest

So is anyone interested? I will probably be there for the entire
duration, and would love to see some of you out and talk.

Let me know,

Sean

On 4/10/07, Sean <seandanielsm...@gmail.com> wrote:

There's a good chance I'll be there.  The past couple of months at work I've
been busy implementing a cross-platform Rails-based solution at work on
OpenVMS and Windows.  If anyone wants to chat with me about that, I'll be
the guy at the "Debian live CD" table.

Ben

On Apr 10, 6:35 pm, Sean <seandanielsm...@gmail.com> wrote:

I should be there the entire time as well. Probably roaming around,
working here and there. Though, if you have questions about Radiant
CMS you can ask me.

Cheers,
Oliver

Hi Oliver,

I just set up Radiant and am very impressed in it. Are you involved with
it?

Ronan

On Apr 12, 9:18 am, Ronan <r...@mmspos.com> wrote:

Hi Ronan,

What is it that you like about Radiant and are you using in on a
production site?

I have been using and programming for Radiant before it was released,
but the main developers are not fond of my ideas such that most of my
efforts don't fit into their model of how Radiant should work. So, I
guess my involvement resembles that of an opposition party in a
democratic government.

Cheers,
Oliver

Hi Oliver,

We are using it on a production site but one with relatively modest
needs right now. I really liked how easy the whole experience was
compared with something like blogsam for example. It helps to know Rails
obviously but this was a breeze to set up and use. I can see that it
could use a few more bells and whistles-- comments on posts, etc. but
there are so many others that do that. What kind of improvements have
you in mind for Radiant? One minor concern is that it is frozen to Rails
1.1.6 right now. I'm not sure if there are any security issues with
that.

Ronan

Hi Ronan,

On Apr 13, 9:27 am, Ronan <r...@mmspos.com> wrote:

I guess this is the current target application for Radiant. But even
for that I believe it has some annoying design flaws.

Sure, if you are only looking for comments, you might as well use a
real blog software such as Typo or Mephisto, but Radiant wants to be a
CMS not a blog. And for a CMS I believe it lacks much more than just
comments.

I recently have been working on http://init.ca/blog/2007/04/02/abstract-content-model-for-radiant/,
which I believe fixes some of the Radiant's design flaws.

The mental branch aka. 0.6 is using Rails 1.2.3.

Cheers,
Oliver

Thanks Oliver. I will digest your essay and get back  to you. Maybe I
will check out the 0.6 branch as well.
Ronan