Howdy Yall!
This is an open invitation for all of those that have wanted to test Open Cobol, but just have not had time to run an install, or for those who want to put it through its paces online. I am offering a subdomain to anyone that wants it on
add1tocobol.com. I have Open Cobol set up there and working just fine. When I create your user account, I will modify your .bashrc file to point to the proper libraries. So it will be a very simple process for you to jump right in with both feet and start playing with Open Cobol. Additionally, it will give you a chance to start joining with the add 1 to cobol team in our projects, by creating projects of your own.
There are of course some guidelines, some of which are laid down by my hosting provider.
1. You have to use the same for some kind of website. (Their rule)
2. At least part of the website must be generated with programs compiled in Open Cobol. (My Rule)
3. Please be careful of processes that take up a lot of resources. (This is shared hosting)
4. I will limit the amount of storage, but I've not decided how much just yet. Don't worry it will be at least a couple hundred meg, but I am leaning towards half a gig. (I've lots of space available)
5. Do not use this as a backup. (Their rule)
The hosting is on GNU/Linux (Debian Distribution). If you want to find out more of the features that they offer you can go here:
http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting-features.html
Alright now why am I making this offer? I believe, that the more of us that are using Open Cobol for web implementations, the greater support we can offer each other. Cobol has stood the test of time, and there really is no project that the web languages are doing that Open Cobol could not do. Blogs, Forums, Content Management System, Aggregators, Enterprise eCommerce Systems, and thousands of other online apps could readily be run with Open Cobol apps on the back end. While we are looking forward with keen anticipation for a GTK GUI, the web provides us, as Cobol coders, an IMMEDIATE GUI for our users. So I believe (and hope) that offering this space will encourage many others to start reaching for that goal.
If you are interested just shoot me an email at
address@hidden. Please provide the following:
Name:
Preferred subdomain:
Preferred username (please provide a few, the more unique the better, many common ones are already taken):
Contact email:
Basic COBOL goals of your domain (even an "I'm not sure just yet" is ok):
That's really all. Once I have all of that (as time allows) I will set you up. It's going to take me a couple days to get the basic howto up. Once I have that then I will start setting up users that have requests in.
Hope this is of use to at least some of yall out there.
Many kind regards,
--
Joseph James Frantz
(Aoirthoir)
http://www.add1tocobol.comRegular add1tocobol meetings:
Where: FREENODE IRC
Channel: #add1tocobol
Date: Sundays
Time: 9:00am Eastern
Access from the web:
http://www.add1tocobol.com/i_o_control.phpWe're there all of the time, even when we do not have a meeting. Stop on by for Open Cobol Support and chat.