Website Developement

[Colin]

Can I offer my services to set up a website for this project? I can
register a url, something like cropplanning.info (.com and .org are
taken), and I'll just use a wiki to manage content. Too easy. I'm no
artist though, so someone would still have to come up with an icon.

I also have limited programming skills. I left Java behind in my
college app design class, but I may be able to get back on my feet.
Let me know what needs to be done (and I'll peruse the bug list too).
Do you have versioning setup?

So many questions!

[Colin]

I'll just go ahead and reply to my own post after reading the other
posts in this group. Sorry for asking about svn access. I got it
figured out.

[croppl...@gmail.com]

Hi Colin,

Glad you're interested in the project! I've had some version of this
working for almost a year now (though it's come a long way in the past
two months) and it's exciting to finally be sharing it.

I'm interested in the website idea, but maybe we should wait a little
while. For the moment, Google Code services are providing most of
what we need. I'd also like to come up with a better name than
"cropplanning.yyy" since I think it might be really confusing to some
of our users to distinguish cropplanning.org from cropplanning.com
from cropplanning.info. Especially since the other websites are also
veggie/produce/farm related. I would hate for someone to enter the
wrong TLD and mistakenly think that WE'RE trying to sell them
something. Perhaps smallfarmcropplans.org? It's a bit of a
mouthfull. Also, Google Code provides wiki. I'd be happy to add you
as a project member if you're interested. When it comes time to add a
full fledged website, do you already have hosting? We have hosting
for our failbetterfarm.com website, and it would be easy to add
another domain to that.

In terms of development, I'm also dusting off my Java for this
project. It's been kind of fun. I have developed everything in the
NetBeans IDE, which has handled all of the library, versioning,
building, etc. It's been pretty sweet actually. There are some wiki
pages in the project that describe getting NB setup for the project,
though it's already a bit out of date. (It doesn't reflect the
addition of the PDF export module and it's dependencies.)

I'm in the process of testing and readying-for-release a PreAlpha2
version. It adds planting by planting and/or field by field setting
of bed/row lengths and a CSV export (but not import) function. After
that, I think I'll try to add some sort of configuration/settings
system and then force myself into a feature freeze to focus on bugs
and details.

Glad to have you on board!

Clayton

PS - Has anyone else tried the first PreAlpha release? Thoughts?
Reactions?

[Clayton Carter]

Colin,

Let me know if you want to be added as a "project member" on the
Google Code site. That would allow you to add, create and edit wikis.
I've been thinking about a few documents that the project could
definitely use: a simple walkthrough, a fleshed out description of all
of the fields and how they interrelate, etc. Let me know if you're
interested.

Clayton