Re: ProjectPM: Do you need me for anything?

Sorry for my absence; I've been travelling this month and finishing up some other projects and am just now getting a chance to sort through some of my other e-mails. I have to finish up a column right quick but will get back to you further either tonight or tomorrow.

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Joe Neal <vlvtelvis@speakeasy.net> wrote:

I got the latest invite for the project PM Blogger thing but I'm really not
interested in writing.

I apologize for dropping the ball on the wiki thing but we were displaced for
a while by the flooding in Nashville and had to wait for phone service and then
DSL to get hooked back up again so we could get back online.

It was my understanding you had people working on authoring a web application
that would become ProjectPM. What you were talking about would require some
kind of specialized software. You could probably make Drupal do if you can't
get someone to code you a custom site from scratch without charging an arm and
a leg. What I was offering to do was help with was administration of the
machine hosting it because with a project on the scale of what you were
talking about I assumed you'd be needing dedicated hosting.

I'm pretty much a web swiss-army knife. I can do a lot of shit but if you
want it done really well there are better people to go to. I can run a LAMP
server no problem and secure it. I'm proficient in linux in general but prefer
Debian based distros. It's been a while but I can admin a BSD box too. I'm a
shitty web designers with aesthetic sensibilities right out of the early 90s
but I can do basic design. Unless you want the most spartan of logos you'd
best look to someone else for that.

Bottom line, I've got some questions for you:

1. What is ProjectPM at the software level? What language is it written in?
What database does it use?

2. What traffic load do you expect off the top?

3. What plans have you made for promotion and SEO?

4. Where are you going to host the thing? Are you going to try and run it on
a shared web host and hope they don't rape you for CPU use if you ever get
popular? I couldn't get an answer from you on this earlier and it concerned
me because it leads me up to question 5

5. Do you know what the fuck you are doing? In our prior email exchanges you
didn't seem to know the difference between a web host and a DNS host. That
concerned me greatly and alone almost made me write the whole thing off.

If you've never run a website before I can show you the ropes but if any money
ever comes out of this I want in. I'd also accept flat payment for services.
I don't have much of a resume. My work history consists of porn sites, mental
health support sites, and a couple failed startups, not much you can put on a
resume. I work for cheap.

6. Who's on your tech / coding team so far and what have they put together?
If you want you can put me in touch with them and let us get up to speed and
we'll inform you of where I can fit in.

I've been doing this stuff since the original .com boom of the late 90s and got
burned by pretty much every project I ever signed on with. If you're for real
I need more than a list of writers. I wanna see code. I read your
description of how the whole system is supposed to work. Where is it?

If you've got nothing, I used to do Drupal development. It's the same system
RedState used to use. You can make it work like scoop or do a bunch of other
things with it. I can use it as the backbone of a system to deliver something
that works according to your original description. It would take 2-3 months
because I've not done it in forever and would have to learn a lot of new stuff.
You might need to get someone else to tweak the design. I'd want payment and
/ or partial ownership. If I were to assume administrative duties over a web
server, you'd need to pay for the box. If I were to pay for it I'd need
compensation.

anyway,

can I help or should I fuck off?

later,

Joe

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