Re: [stellation-res] Self-hosting update

["Jonathan Gossage" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Stellation-res" <stellation-res@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:55 PM
Subject: [stellation-res] Self-hosting update


> Just to keep everyone well-informed...
> 
> I expected us to be self-hosting already by now, but things are taking
> longer to set up than I anticipated. For perfectly reasonable reasons,
> the Eclipse admins are *very* careful about what software they will
> allow on a machine inside the Eclipse domain - after all, once a machine
> inside the firewall gets compromised, the whole network is effectively
> compromised! So getting things set up is just a more complicated process
> than I expected. 
> 
> This also means that some of our plans for the website on the new
> server need to be scaled back. We discussed using some kind of CMS
> system, and those are, effectively, out of the question. On the other
> hand, our MOO was approved, and will be up and running as soon as we
> open the server to traffic from outside the firewall - and the MOO
> provides forums, and some CMS-like functionality through something
> called webslates. 

Will the MOO provide capabilities in anyway similar to a Wiki?

> 
> Anyway - I'm hoping to have the last problems ironed out shortly.
> 
> -Mark
> 

Regards

Jonathan Gossage