> For example, a WordPress site built on MySQL can't be migrated into an SQLite powered WordPress using a common migration plugin. I know, because I tried.
Ok, didn't expect that response! I tried this today.
I admit I didn't try super hard- I have a lot of other things to work on, was a 20 minute curiosity mission. I just downloaded the zip file and grabbed the files out of that. Don't get me wrong- it worked- but I couldn't do an import as mentioned.
If you want lots of detail, I can spend more time on it. Email me at my hn user at the google mail.
Craigslist is effective because the programmers on campus (just like the HR professionals or people in finance) don't think about the college paper as a place where people other than writers are looking. College coders are looking for gigs on Craigslist to fill their free-time, simply because they probably don't know there's an opportunity at your paper.
Regarding talking to management, have them find out what the board members are paying their coders and have them call other college papers in the circuit to find out what the average is (and tell them to compare the rates they hear to the quality of the site). Its one of the beautiful things that I miss about the college paper world - other college papers aren't competitors, they're colleagues and welcome inter-paper exchanges.
Andrew Dunn sat on our Board when we were a non-profit, and has been involved in the conversation about CoPress and college media since the beginning, but he's been the Editor-in-Chief
Out of curiosity, how recently did you try?
We're using a new SQLite integration that seems to be pretty good at translating SQL to SQLite: https://github.com/WordPress/sqlite-database-integration
We'd be curious to learn more about how it failed. It's definitely an area we'd like to improve.