hello joppers, we had a meeting yesterday about the upcoming special issue on shared machine shops. we are a bit behind schedule and as you know we have a hard deadline because we want to release the issue in time with fab10 [0]. the plan is to produce a hardcopy version of the journal and have a little release event during that gathering. we are currently looking for organisations to pay for the costs. **meanwhile, we need some technical help in order to smooth the production process of the electronic journal.** we started to think about how to get the articles onto the website and we arrived to the conclusion that we need a "staging" website, which looks like the original one but it is not public, so we can make mistakes and see how the release would look like before migrating the content to the production site. this is quite common practice in web development. therefore, the question is if somebody could set up a clone of the current website for us, or at least provide us with the hosting account details, the codebase and the database of the current website. if somebody could do it for us it would be supercool because we are short on time. but if not, we can also do it ourselves provided that we get the resources mentioned above. of course a staging website would be a contribution to the existing jopp infrastructure and it could be used by future editors to make a more smooth update when they are working on a new issue. we thought about the update process like this: * we plan to make the updates on the staging site * then ask for a backup of the live site to be made * then copy/paste the new entries to the live site + here have tech stand-by if roll-back needed!!! * then check the results and if not good revert * eventually, be happy the timeline for this would look like this: * late May: get codebase, database, hosting details * early June: install and configure staging site * June 20th: staging site content upload starts * June 27th: migrating content to live site * July 2nd or in the worst case July 4th: release!!! is there somebody in particular we should be communicating with about this? finally, we would of course need accounts on the website. i already have one and it works (thanks!), but my co-editor peter troxler would also need one. his email is [email protected] thanks for your consideration, your editors. [0] http://fab10.org/ -- maxigas, kiberpunk FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166 http://research.metatron.ai/ People the switches!