John Cox, the co-founder and former project manager of the PostNuke Content Management System this morning posted the following document on the homepage of his website, dinerminor.com

Introduction

Fundamental differences are what drives change. When there are two sides to a disagreement in an OS project you basically have a few choices that need to be made. You can continue on, and agree to disagree. You can continue on and still fight each other every step of the way. Finally, you can go your separate ways.

What I decided was best in the name of progress was to choose the third choice and that was go a separate way. I can not speak for everyone that left PostNuke as to whether they agree with the decision or not, but I can tell you that the developers that left the project are unified in making 1.0 from the 'old' Dot 8 tree a reality. This includes the work on Block Layout, new translation system, and the security and performance enhancements which have been in work for about 6 months now.

Each of the 35 or so developers which left the PostNuke development have joined forces yet again to continue what we started. We feel that this is the correct path for fully realizing the potential of what we started during the original Dot 8 development cycle, and thus have decided to officially announce our intention of building not only a better mouse trap (which will be API compliant) but a better GPL'ed Content Management System for the world to use.

To read the rest of the article CLICK HERE.

To hear Wolf's take all this and his PostNuke spin on those Apple.com/switch ads currently on TV…

http://www.techrequest.com/Postnuke-Switch.mp3

~ HiMY! ~

bismillah

On The Morning of Thursday June 20th, 2002 I attended the funeral of 'Greg Allan' aka
'Adam_Baum' in Owen Sound Ontario Canada.

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On Sunday, July 28, 2002, PostNuke's own Steve MacGregor had a three hour lay-over in Cincinnati on his trip home to South Carolina from Texas.

Doug Dalton (Apakuni) and Drew Vogel (vogelap) went to the Greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport to meet Steve and to hang out & drink beer during his lay-over.
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Drew Vogel (http://www.drewvogel.com) is very pleased to announce that he has signed a contract with NO STARCH PRESS (http://www.nostarch.com) to write the definitive guide to PostNuke. The book, which is still untitled, will build upon the solid foundation of Drew's Official PostNuke Installation & Getting Started Guide, and offer a greatly expanded look at a variety of PostNuke topics.
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Greg Allan a.k.a. Adam_Baum, the lead core developer and one of the four founding members of the PostNuke CMS Development Project passed away from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. The accident occurred June 16, 2002 near his home in Meaford, Ontario in Canada.

Greg Allan was a humble and personable man who always downplayed his considerable skills. He was a self-taught coder who contributed to every aspect of development from cleaning up other people’s code to writing new and innovative software.

Greg was an invaluable asset to the PostNuke development team, and a dear and trusted friend and co-worker to thousands of people on every continent. Through this first year of PostNuke’s existence, Greg’s personable and giving nature has been a guiding light and inspiration to many people and projects that have shaped the development landscape and social personality of the PostNuke project.

Surviving Greg are his parents, Bob and Leona Allan, his girlfriend Kim and her two children Kristin and Kassandra, his dog Chevy, and trusted friend Natasha.

In memory of Greg and out of respect for all those mourning his passing, all PostNuke development and official support activity has been suspended for one week. We urge all those using PostNuke to post a copy of this article on each of your PostNuke-Powered sites to commemorate the memory and accomplishments of Adam_Baum. Please direct all comments and rememberances to this link.

For funeral arrangements, flower delivery information and memorial contributions, please email steve@grape.dyndns.org for more information.

Today, I posted INTERACTING WITH A POSTNUKE COMMUNITY, the first title in my PostNuke USER GUIDE series.

This series is designed for users, not system administrators, and each title in the series will walk a user through each step of the subject. This educates users on the usage of PostNuke sites.

To download the PDF (complete with screenshots) of INTERACTING WITH A POSTNUKE COMMUNITY, point your browser to the Download section of www.drewvogel.com. Or click here.

As always, please let me know your comments and suggestions!