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sarcasticmuppet · « **Reply #25 on:** October 05, 2004, 11:02:04 AM »

That would be awesome. Have badly-drawn characters enact the worst ideas of Socialism.

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #26 on:** October 05, 2004, 11:18:32 AM »

I wouldn't call the John Birch society socialist.

Jonathon · « **Reply #27 on:** October 05, 2004, 12:23:25 PM »

No, I think she means that they'll illustrate the evils of socialism, which will lead to the natural conclusion that rabid capitalism is the only way to go.

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #28 on:** October 05, 2004, 01:23:04 PM »

Ah, gotcha

Zalmoxis · « **Reply #29 on:** October 05, 2004, 03:05:24 PM »

Pat:

Sure. motleyvision AT gmail DOT com (mie)

sarcasticmuppet · « **Reply #30 on:** October 05, 2004, 03:17:16 PM »

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No, I think she means that they'll illustrate the evils of socialism, which will lead to the natural conclusion that rabid capitalism is the only way to go.

Exactly, and at the end it'll ask "Do you support the Free Market System???" with checkboxes for yes and no.

fugu13 · « **Reply #31 on:** October 09, 2004, 11:07:34 PM »

Don't suppose they could use "long-distance, freelance programmers"? I'll work for milk, cookies, and occasional plane tickets to baton rouge.

Actually, if they do need anyone to do some programming (and problem solving/design) for a particular project, especially one that could be construed as "informatics-related" ( http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/overvie...informatics.asp ), and don't mind that someone being remote, I'd be interested in helping out. For free, even (lets just say I'm both A) working on building credentials and

looking for real life projects to motivate me, as that has before).

Some ideas I see of the top of my head: RSS feeds integrated into an existing CMS (Content Management System), or with a mini-CMS of their own if the news isn't going to be presented through a CMS on the site (most news sites with a serious internet presence have at least one RSS feed). Interface for updating and otherwise managing (has a link been used before? what links were being shown at time X?) the links on the right (really another mini-CMS). Email notification list/subscriber management solution (likely formed by integrating a common open source mailing list manager with whatever subscriber management solution is being used).

The caveats for my working for free would be that 1) I get to write up my experiences in creating said project to hand in to a professor or two here and likely "publish" on a blog or somesuch (focusing pretty much exclusively on technical aspects) and 2) the code (as appropriate, with all particular information removed, of course) be released under an open source license, freely available for download (I'll gladly provide the space and bandwidth). I don't know exactly what their opinion of open source software is, but I should make clear that many firm believers in capitalism support open source software -- there's nothing inherently socialistic about it.

They could have no use for my skills at all, but hey, its worth the offer

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Patrick · « **Reply #32 on:** October 11, 2004, 07:29:54 AM »

Wow. I am interested in that. I'm leaving for a two-day business trip, I'll be back on Wednesday, but we're looking for just that kind of stuff.

Is it possible for you to write up a small proposal like that and email it to patpoyfair@gmail.com? I'm gunning for a complete overhaul of that site but am not much of a web page guy. Your proposal would go a long way towards getting the CEO on board with paying you, etc.

Pat

fugu13 · « **Reply #33 on:** October 12, 2004, 12:19:44 PM »

Oooh, payment

I repeat, not necessary (well, if they wanted me to create their CMS payment would be necessary, and rather good payment at that, but that's because it would be a huge project, as noted below), and I of course wouldn't mind payment.

I would not be available for whole website work (absent very good payment), for a few reasons: 1) whole website work takes a lot of work, even if one is not doing the design but just creating the markup. 2) you really should have a CMS, and I've definitely not got the time to create/customize one unless being compensated. 3) The sort of work involved in a news website is pretty much old hat (well, there are ways of going about it that wouldn't be, but they'd make it fall under the time restriction thing to an extreme level, though for this reason if I were the one creating it I would want some latitude in technologies used (though they would all be well respected ones), as I want this to be something I can use for school as well as a resume item).

However, I would be happy to give some helpful suggestions as to what they need in a CMS, what they need in a website (want google to take you more seriously? use text instead of images of text), general best practices, all that sort of thing, written out nicely.

I will prepare a proposal and get that to you soon-ish, though I encourage you to read it over and get back to me with suggestions before passing it along so that I may take the best tact

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Patrick · « **Reply #34 on:** October 18, 2004, 03:49:41 PM »

The recruiting night is being moved one week later, to October the 26th. If you have questions, you know where to find me.

Patrick · « **Reply #35 on:** October 26, 2004, 03:14:37 PM »

The recruiting night has been cancelled. We honestly don't need to recruit right now.

We are interested in freelancers, however. If you're interested, you know where to find me.