Professional Open Source was "Request for quote: Content Management System"

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Please see the email message below.  Ladies and Gentlemen RFQ is very
much in play for the phpWebSite community.  I spent a good 45 minutes
going over the intent of the RFQ questions with Irving staff yesterday
while on my personal cell phone and on my lunch break at work.  Since I
am a civil servant I cannot take funds for this project.  However, I am
willing to do the following:
1.) I understand the RFQ process.  That gives the community one up on
the competition.
2.) I want to finish the rough edges of the wiki documentation.  This
RFQ will help do this.
3.) I will sign the initial conflict of interest form.
4.) If the community's RFQ response passes the initial screening and a
presentation is requested, I'll fund my airfare expenses to travel and
present at Irving Texas.
5.) I'll wiki the RFQ as a "Will phpWebSite work for me?" type document.
6.) Irving is a MS shop now but a new ITD director would like to look at
open source more.  You see the question here is, "Do you spend your
capital dollars for Police and Fire--which re-elects people--or
vaporware such as software?  The obvious answer provides an edge for a
proposal response.
7.) I'll need several theme designers and developers in the major times
zones.  Hehe--you see 24x7 support is easy to develop with an Internet
developed application.  If Irving TX selects phpWebSite as the
successful proposal and if Irving TX selects you as part of the final
support solution offerings, then those that accept will need to fill out
a conflict of interest form, CIQ.
8.) Perhaps singletrack or someone with a stable interest in phpWebSite
would consider hosting an asterisk pbx.  For example, mhoynes, could
host a pbx and singletrack could host a pbx for developers across the
pond.  The federated pbx system could provide both land line and VOIP
iaxy service to developers.  This would allow Irving one point of
contact phone number.  The pbx could then route the calls to the correct
federated staff based on timezone and availability.  Irving really wants
a vendor that they can call to coordinate problems with.  The proposal
can fund the costs of that pbx server.
9.) Patches will be required for some of the items in the RFQ. 508 may
be one of them.
10.) The RFQ is on short notice.  I plan on have a long weekend and take
off Monday 8/28--the due date.  I'll have the signed documents ready.
The proposal says, "Written quotes (Mail, Fax, Email with Signatures)
will be accepted until 5:00 p.m., August 28, 2006."  If the document is
too large for email, then I'll need to have help or the ability to
create an Irving release on -comm so that they can download it.  If I
have to Overnight the document, Next business cuts off on mid-day
Saturday.  That may or may not be enough time.
11.) Hehe...we don't need no stinking hardware in our proposal.  The
proposal will point Irving to their existing WSCA (say as wisca) =
Western States Contract Alliance or something contracts.  Most vendors
overcharge for hardware.  The RFQ will recommend that Irving uses their
existing Dell or other preferred WiSCA vendor to drive the hardware
purchase and hardware support.  They have an efficient system in place.
 Moreover, Redhat or SuSe/Novell can be  contacted for the OS support.
It would be up to Irving to decide on these options.
12.) Hint Hint: We'll be going up against some very high dollar
proposals.  If successful, there's a chance for some very nice stipends
out of this deal.  HeHe...we're not selling software licenses.
CahChing!  By the way, did I mentions there's the chance for some very
nice stipends?
13.) I have tried to catalog various themes and modules here
http://phpwebsite-comm.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Third_Party_Themes
and here
http://phpwebsite-comm.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Third_Party_Modules
respectfully.  Please send email responses for any themes or modules
that I am missing.
14.) Please send an email response if you are interested in being part
of the support solution.
15.) Even if you are not interested in the support solution, please be
willing to fix any modules bugs within the next 90 days.  Moreover,
singletrack is ready to do the 0.10.3 release.  Please do what ever you
can to help drive out any final bugs you see in his pending release
candidates.
16.) Please help stardog refine the 1.0.x series. This is another edge
that the community already has in the proposal process.  There's a nice
stable release and a new cutting edge version that has already reached a
great deal of stability.
17.) So what if the proposal is not successful?  The community will have
advanced the software a great deal.  If you'd like to try other RFQs,
then you already have the infrastructure in place!  A nice LinuxJournal,
Linux Format, or other trade publication article could really bring some
nice publicity to the phpWebSite project along with marketing of the
solution that would be in place.

HTH,
Greg


Brian W. Brown wrote:
> Hello phpWebSite Dev list,
> 
> This was emailed to me and we at the university cannot act on this request
> for proposal due to our role as a public institution. I thought, however,
> this might be of interest to our independent developers.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Brian W. Brown
> Director, Electronic Student Services
> Room 269, John Thomas Hall
> Appalachian State University
> Boone, NC 28608
> 
> Office: 828-262-7124
> 
> http://ess.appstate.edu/
> http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/
> 
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Request for quote: Content Management System - updated
> From:    "James Donovan" <jdonovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:    Thu, August 17, 2006 2:17 pm
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Good afternoon,
>  We are requesting a written quote for:  Content Management System
> Attached you will find an RFQ file detailing the required specifications
> of this request, as well as a Conflict of Interest Questionnaire (CIQ).
> If you already have a current CIQ form on file with the City of Irving,
> that portion can be disregarded.
> If you have any questions, please get in touch with the listed contact
> on the RFQ form.
> Thank you,
> James Donovan
> Micro-Computer Specialist
> Information Technology Department
> 972-721-4781
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Good afternoon,
>  We are requesting a written quote for:  Content Management System
> Attached you will find an RFQ file detailing the required specifications
> of this request, as well as a Conflict of Interest Questionnaire
> (CIQ). If you already have a current CIQ form on file with the City of
> Irving, that portion can be disregarded.
> If you have any questions, please get in touch with the listed contact
> on the RFQ form.
> Thank you,
> James Donovan
> Micro-Computer Specialist
> Information Technology Department
> 972-721-4781

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