Re: IBM Developerworks ceasing this December

[B Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

There are many 3rd party sites out there.  Code400.com, my fieldexit.com
site, and others I'm sure.

Maybe David doing it on Midrange.com would be the best, but I'm sure he'd
want some assistance.

I personally can't stand the wiki's...  especially the open source one.  It
CAF (cluttered as frig) and out of date almost all the time.  Also not a
huge fan of FB or LI either.

It doesn't have to be hosted on an IBM i either..  but if it's just IBM i
info that we're concerned about maybe that's a good idea as it could be
easily passed to a new host if needed as most in the community would
(hopefully) know how to restore a library or two and some IFS directories,
set up an apache instance and point the domain to a new host/server.

It just needs to be something that will be around for the long haul and
something that get community support.

I've never seen so much fragmentation with a relatively smaller group
before, and I'm involved in a lot of them (from motorcycles to classic vws
to hemochromatosis groups)...

Bradley V. Stone
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On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 8:34 AM Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I’m not sure flooding the page is the answer.   What we need is a
> replacement technology to connections (which is the root cause of the
> problem,HCL is the bad guy here as it turns out, althoughIBM played it very
> poorly) so that content can be preserved.   In 90 days, that won’t happen.
>
>
> What we need is an alternative hosting plan.