This is the free alternative to the crass commercialism of the classmates.com site. I don't know about you, but I refuse to pay an annual fee just so I can email someone (even if I haven't seen them since high school or college). Between my 2 offices, school, and home, I already get plenty of email...

The migrated server and Portal should be working now. Please report any problems. Thanks.

Here are the main parts:

• PHHS Alumni Portal - A place for alumni of Patrick Henry High School to hang out and publish whatever they want on the web. This is where you'll find reunion info and other stuff. It's kinda geeky, but hey, it's the 21st century.
• Unverified info or Missing Classmates list - Please scan it (again) and see if there's anyone you know how to contact. We'd appreciate it if you could let them know about the reunion. Thanks in advance... The list has been updated! It's actually a little smaller now; thanks to all those who replied, and keep it coming.

Reunion Info - The postcards are out, with the following info: The Dinner - Dance is Saturday, August 17, in the Baja Room at Marina Village. The picnic is the followng day at Playa Pacifica on Mission Bay. More details can be found on the PHHS portal calendar. (sorry, but the calendar's temporarily down. Chalk it up to language evolution).

If you have any questions, contact Diane at PHHS77@san.rr.com. If you haven't already done so, please send your contact info to Diane at the above address. Thanks in advance...

The portal provides each member with their own home folder, where you can publish your own documents, pictures, whatever, as well as keep a favorites list of portal content, etc. You can even choose your own skin (there're only three right now). The content types also include calendar events, and news items, so check there for reunion info and updates. All content is automatically cataloged by the portal and is searchable, etc. Whoever publishes a piece of content owns it, and it's private until published.

The discussion forums are similar to SlashDot, and you can post things on different topics (in either plain text or html) or reply to a specific posting. We don't have any topics defined yet, so ideas are welcome (topics are how the forum indexes the contents for searching, etc).

• PHHS General Discussion Forum - For PHHS alums to discuss (or trash) pretty much anything. I don't really have any topic definitions yet, but feel free to suggest some (I also need topic icons for them too). Someone asked for a green and gold color scheme, so I did my best...

This is still a work in progress; since I don't have the time to do much extra right now, I'm open to anyone who wants to learn a little geeky stuff. You can perform almost all site development and management activities through the web (and yes, there will be SSL support soon). If that sounds like too much work, then just browse the forums and join the portal.

Here are some links to more detailed info on the portal software (ie, Zope and CMF). It's really one of the coolest free software technologies out there (as far as the web goes anyway).

• CMF home site - The home site for the CMF portal software (running on CMF, of course).
• Article on CMF - written by a CMF guy, this is a draft chapter from an up-coming book.
• Zope home site - Everything you always wanted to know about Zope (but were afraid to download).
• Zope Quick Start - A quickie intro to Zope.
• Zope Book - The full Zope book. Download it or buy a copy.

I'm still working on several things, so more features, such as a calendar and photo-folders (a photo album kind of thing), will be added over time. Please let me know if you want to participate in the development of this site. The only limit is your imagination...