On Nov 20, 2003, at 1:58 pm, Phillip Temple wrote:
They are both Open Source and under the GPL, so you can make them as flexible as you like.
Right, but I am not a developer. I'd love to be but it's just not me. So, I need to get someone to develop PN. A volunteer would be great. But I'll probably have to pay.
All the db tables rest within the same database and PN modules can access each others data without problem.
That's cool.
You can throw it all out when you've developed something better.
That'll be a waste of time/money but it does depend how quick KendraBase becomes useful, I guess. We'll have a better idea once a demo is up and we can rip-it-to-bits.
Question is: how is what you've got NOW better than plugging in PN?
It's not. PN is better. But there is a cost in time and money to get PN up and running. And we have to weigh up if the benefit is large enough to warrant the effort. We have wiki and email lists now but I can see PN does a lot more. It's an unknown for me. Do you feel confident?
I'm only suggesting it as an interim solution, and the database can always be extracted and transformed for importation into Kendrabase when constructed.
OK. Now if you were to say "Daniel, I have PN up and running and I'm happy to show you around, explore the modules with you to see if they fit requirements and answer your questions on it. And if you are positive then I'll either sort PN for Kendra voluntarily or give you a quote". Then I'd say great, let's go for it. What do you say?
Cheers Daniel