Taking Site Offline for Upgrading

Yes, I am interested in how the site works. I have a unix and oracle background.
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Esther A. Herold

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>
> Joseph and I have been talking about upgrading the site. The site was built two
> years ago and since then, there have been many improvements to the underlying
> "content managament system" that serves as the core for the site.
>
> This is going to be no easy process as there have been many custom additions we
> have made to that software. We were thinking of taking the site down sometime
> this summer. It may be up to a week before we can have it back up. In the
> meantime, members will be able to continue discussions via the email lists.
>
> Please let us know your thoughts on this. Once we have a firm date, we will
> notify members so that if a member has turned off one or more of their email
> lists, they can turn them back on before the site goes down if they would like
> to continue participating in the discussions.
>
> I will also use this opportunity to ask if there is any member out there who is
> tech saavy and would like to learn how the site functions so that they can help
> with the maintenance (and perhaps upgrading) of the site. The site basically
> runs on PHP and MySQL on a Unix server.