IP configuration change for IALLT Journal, and discussions of open-access
Following a request from BB (one yesterday, another today), I changed the allowed-ip settings in the Tomcat config to accommodate their moving to a new provider. This raised the issue of the future of the journal. I'm pushing hard for open-access, since I think it will die without it, and in any case it's difficult to justify our time going into development on a project which can never be demonstrated or shared with the wider community. The IALLT conference is going on right now, so I hope they'll address this issue. If they do, and they vote to continue closed-access, we can continue to host, but I think we'll have to train up their folks to do the markup; I'll shift the bulk of my development efforts on this project to CJBS. If they go for open-access, then the project becomes live again, and I can cross-develop with the two journals; that's the ideal situation. They may also prefer to migrate the content to static formats and go for their own install of e.g. OJS on their own server; I've prepared for that by making all the content available in static packages ready for porting to any system that'll handle XHTML or PDF. I think the main thing is to get a decision one way or the other before the summer, so I can do my own project planning.