You are looking at the new web site of the CT-TACF. This site was designed to provide the local membership, and potential membership with timely information about past and future events, and documents relevant to their work with the American Chestnut foundation, the CT-TACF, and work with chestnuts in general.
This web site is built with an architecture which uses a minor modification of *Ray Camden's Blog CFC, a blogging platform seeing considerable use in the blogshpere. The blog is a fundamentally good starting point since the purpose is to display and organize content. I felt this provided a fast way to launch a distributed content management system (dCMS).
The term dCMS refers to the ability for multiple people to add and edit web site content, in this case using simple html forms. There is no need to learn fancy file transfer protocols or graphics program. If you can read this article, chance are you could add content to the web site.
We have great plans for the future releases of the web site. The next version (ver2) will allow considerably improved content management. The big change will come with ver3 planned for before the start of the flowering season next year. Ver3 will include: individual journal entries, a journal aggregator, a mother tree database, user self-management (we want to communicate more by e-mail than mail), and enhanced content management.
So if you are interested in participating, or have ideas for the next upgrade, please contact me at gro.fcattc@ofni.
* I had the good opportunity to work with Ray in San Francisco, back in the internet bubble. We were both working for ChangeMedia, soon to be CreativeIS (Control Data) soon to be Syntegra (British Telecom).
