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[Andrew Keith Butcher <abutcher@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gentleman,

I visited with the slate people at web services yesterday.  After 
learning about how it works internally, I'm not so sure we'd want to 
use it, but I'm going ahead with the beaurocratics of it anyway.  
Basically, web services controls your theme without giving you any 
creative access to it.  You have to send in a request to have a 
different theme than the two issued options, which aren't that bad -- 
I guess.  Their people magic themes up for every web site they 
control -- which seems like way too much work and I didn't realize 
they had people doing that all of the time.  So, we could design a 
theme and give it to them hoping that they would put it in place with 
the slate content readers if we would like.  

Another thing I was upset with was that the project is not open source 
yet, due to the fact that they lost their lead dev in March and won't 
be proceeding with development until they get a replacement. Which 
puts a huge draw on open sourcing the project.  I did although inform 
them that we were interested in helping package the software if they 
ever got to that point.

On the positive side, I was pleased with how easy it is to pop in and 
make updates on their sites and their UI looks really clean.  And 
after I'm given admin, I can give everyone publishing rights so we can 
get mass updates all around.  All of that out of the way, we should 
have a slate controlled WVU page within' one week if we choose to 
capitalize on it.  Any interest in designing a theme should be voiced 
soon.

Peace,
Hoss