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FCPS Web Site to be Redesigned
Posted by:
NewHorizon
()
Date: June 12, 2015 10:47AM
http://www.virginiabids.com/bid-opportunities/2015/06/10/6374278-FCPS-Public-Website-Redesign.html
RFP attached. Kinda extensive - not just a matter of changing the aesthetics of a few hundred fcps.edu web pages.
I dunno - am I picking nits?
I mean, how is it FCPS says they don't have enough money to teach our kids ($100 million deficit for FY 2017), but yet do this extensive web site redesign?
Attachments:
RFP attached. Kinda extensive - not just a matter of changing the aesthetics of a few hundred fcps.edu web pages.
I dunno - am I picking nits?
I mean, how is it FCPS says they don't have enough money to teach our kids ($100 million deficit for FY 2017), but yet do this extensive web site redesign?
Attachments:
Re: FCPS Web Site to be Redesigned
Posted by:
Ralph Pootawn
()
Date: June 12, 2015 10:53AM
NewHorizon Wrote:
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> http://www.virginiabids.com/bid-opportunities/2015
> /06/10/6374278-FCPS-Public-Website-Redesign.html
>
> RFP attached. Kinda extensive - not just a matter
> of changing the aesthetics of a few hundred
> fcps.edu web pages.
>
> I dunno - am I picking nits?
> I mean, how is it FCPS says they don't have enough
> money to teach our kids ($100 million deficit for
> FY 2017), but yet do this extensive web site
> redesign?
Attachments:
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> http://www.virginiabids.com/bid-opportunities/2015
> /06/10/6374278-FCPS-Public-Website-Redesign.html
>
> RFP attached. Kinda extensive - not just a matter
> of changing the aesthetics of a few hundred
> fcps.edu web pages.
>
> I dunno - am I picking nits?
> I mean, how is it FCPS says they don't have enough
> money to teach our kids ($100 million deficit for
> FY 2017), but yet do this extensive web site
> redesign?
Attachments:
Re: FCPS Web Site to be Redesigned
Posted by:
What's the big deal?
()
Date: June 12, 2015 11:14AM
It will 'only' cost a few million.
Plus, like most all public sector development jobs, overruns due to lack of proper contractor oversight and a continual stream of adds and change requests of course.
Which then will be scraped because it doesn't work, to be replaced by simple changes that could have been done by a freshman student at TJ on their lunch break.
Now that I think about it, that's not a bad idea. In-house the job as an ongoing development project for computer science students at TJ. They could even learn how to do remote team management by outsourcing the grunt work to a sister tech high school in India. Give 'em a leg up for when they hit the real world.
Plus, like most all public sector development jobs, overruns due to lack of proper contractor oversight and a continual stream of adds and change requests of course.
Which then will be scraped because it doesn't work, to be replaced by simple changes that could have been done by a freshman student at TJ on their lunch break.
Now that I think about it, that's not a bad idea. In-house the job as an ongoing development project for computer science students at TJ. They could even learn how to do remote team management by outsourcing the grunt work to a sister tech high school in India. Give 'em a leg up for when they hit the real world.
Re: FCPS Web Site to be Redesigned
Posted by:
Sole Source Blues
()
Date: June 12, 2015 11:41AM
Let's give Eric Jensen a sole source contract "Designing Web Sites With Jensen's Bank Account in Mind" that should do it.
Re: FCPS Web Site to be Redesigned
Posted by:
NewHorizon
()
Date: August 06, 2015 10:04AM
Postponing this project to help close the $100 million shortfall has 31 votes so far at
https://fcps.uservoice.com/forums/302115-what-are-your-ideas-for-balancing-the-potential-1/suggestions/8963641-drop-for-now-the-redesign-of-the-fcps-edu-web-si
https://fcps.uservoice.com/forums/302115-what-are-your-ideas-for-balancing-the-potential-1/suggestions/8963641-drop-for-now-the-redesign-of-the-fcps-edu-web-si
Re: FCPS Web Site to be Redesigned
Posted by:
3hKbD
()
Date: August 06, 2015 10:18AM
What's the big deal? Wrote:
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> It will 'only' cost a few million.
>
> Plus, like most all public sector development
> jobs, overruns due to lack of proper contractor
> oversight and a continual stream of adds and
> change requests of course.
>
> Which then will be scraped because it doesn't
> work, to be replaced by simple changes that could
> have been done by a freshman student at TJ on
> their lunch break.
>
> Now that I think about it, that's not a bad idea.
> In-house the job as an ongoing development project
> for computer science students at TJ. They could
> even learn how to do remote team management by
> outsourcing the grunt work to a sister tech high
> school in India. Give 'em a leg up for when they
> hit the real world.
That's actually a great idea; and what a start on the careers for those students involved.
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> It will 'only' cost a few million.
>
> Plus, like most all public sector development
> jobs, overruns due to lack of proper contractor
> oversight and a continual stream of adds and
> change requests of course.
>
> Which then will be scraped because it doesn't
> work, to be replaced by simple changes that could
> have been done by a freshman student at TJ on
> their lunch break.
>
> Now that I think about it, that's not a bad idea.
> In-house the job as an ongoing development project
> for computer science students at TJ. They could
> even learn how to do remote team management by
> outsourcing the grunt work to a sister tech high
> school in India. Give 'em a leg up for when they
> hit the real world.
That's actually a great idea; and what a start on the careers for those students involved.
Re: FCPS Web Site to be Redesigned
Posted by:
let football players do it
()
Date: August 06, 2015 12:49PM
Football players are extolled as the acme of humanity. Let's see what they can do off the field. Let the best football team in FCPS do the website work. Let's see if these claims about football are true.
Re: FCPS Web Site to be Redesigned
Posted by:
lol...
()
Date: August 06, 2015 02:23PM
What's the big deal? Wrote:
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> It will 'only' cost a few million.
>
> Plus, like most all public sector development
> jobs, overruns due to lack of proper contractor
> oversight and a continual stream of adds and
> change requests of course.
>
> Which then will be scraped because it doesn't
> work, to be replaced by simple changes that could
> have been done by a freshman student at TJ on
> their lunch break.
>
> Now that I think about it, that's not a bad idea.
> In-house the job as an ongoing development project
> for computer science students at TJ. They could
> even learn how to do remote team management by
> outsourcing the grunt work to a sister tech high
> school in India. Give 'em a leg up for when they
> hit the real world.
+1000
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> It will 'only' cost a few million.
>
> Plus, like most all public sector development
> jobs, overruns due to lack of proper contractor
> oversight and a continual stream of adds and
> change requests of course.
>
> Which then will be scraped because it doesn't
> work, to be replaced by simple changes that could
> have been done by a freshman student at TJ on
> their lunch break.
>
> Now that I think about it, that's not a bad idea.
> In-house the job as an ongoing development project
> for computer science students at TJ. They could
> even learn how to do remote team management by
> outsourcing the grunt work to a sister tech high
> school in India. Give 'em a leg up for when they
> hit the real world.
+1000