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																On 10/2/06, Oliver Humpage <oliver at watershed.co.uk> wrote:

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> Laura, any funding going for this? Or anyone want to sponsor a site? :)
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I emailed Andy Budd and offered to create a Plone based site for skillswap
way before the first Bristol skillswap and the Ruby Derailed site that
followed, but he declined.

I would offer to do something again now and i'm sure netsight could host it,
but I haven't got time to do it at the moment. So i'd be happy to help out
where I could, and i'd also be happy for someone else to take the lead and
stick up a drupal site instead, as there are probably more php/mysql
resources on this list, willing to help out (show of hands?).

But before we worry about the site I think there is something else that we
need to think about - realistically how many people have we got with a
relevant skill they are willing to "swap" (and able and willing do a proper
presentation?). Laura - am I right in thinking this is the biggest obstacle
at the moment? I know there weren't actually many skillswap events in
Brighton before the site meltdown. Do we request to take over the skillswap
domain or just break off and have it as a Bristol thing with no pretence of
it being part of a larger project?

Personally I still like the idea of smaller, more informal meetups, say
where two or three people meet up with a laptop in a corner of the watershed
with a pint and someone swaps an hours photoshop tuition for an hours CSS or
PHP tuition or something.

Just my 2p

-- 
Rick Hurst, Web developer, Bristol, England
http://www.rickhurst.co.uk | http://www.netsight.co.uk