2008/7/12 Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, the beauty of MediaWiki being free-and-open-source-software (FOSS) is > that you are actually *able to do it* and *allowed to do that*. If you cannot
Sure. > do it yourself, you can always convince your work to hire someone to do it > for you, raise a bug bounty, etc. It may actually be cheaper than shelling > money for a proprietary solution which may turn out to have other bugs, > mis-features, missing features, etc. and that may be discontinued or not keep > up with the times. You know the old saying about the difference between theory and practice? "In theory, it's practical. In practice - it's only a theory". Translating your suggestion to specific steps, it would involve us in having to define a project of what we want to have been done, how to do it, tender for contractors, interview them to decide whether they are fit for the job, allocate time to track the project etc. etc. and all this without the certainty of it even getting something useful at the end of this tunnel. Compare this to just researching existing products, comparing their existing merits, price, requirements and fitness for our needs, and just buying them. All this for something which is not the core of our business, just another tool to help us run the main task (which is to sell totally different software and services). > For the record, I am now between jobs and am willing to contribute to > open-source (or non-open-source projects) for the right price. Other people > may also be available. I have a working knowledge of PHP and am familiar with > using MediaWiki as a user and to customise it. I'm sure that you can also > find other people who can do it. Good luck with your job hunt. Maybe you can do this stuff for MediaWiki to pumper your resume :). Cheers, --Amos ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
