Re: Developer Interest: joseph cheek (fwd)

[Jason Pincin <jpincin@ashtech.net>]

My email on the developers I'm interested in is forthcoming.

The IRC meet will have to be Tues, and you'll have my mail before that.

As far as Mr. Cheek, I'll be blatantly honest:  I don't care to work with
him at all.  I had a phone conversation with him, several email exchanges,
I tried letting him know what was going on and insisted that we
collaborate from the beginning, and he would have none of it.  I believe
his interests are more commercial than I care for.  As far as making both
sites better... it doesn't make sense... it'll just hinder the progress
towards one unified knowledge and information repository if we start
building up two different ones.  And his site hasn't impressed me at all.

As far as commercial contacts, he has them because he's the only one
claiming to be a LinuxKB that has put any amount of work into it.  As soon
as our site goes live and as soon as we bring interested developers on
board, and begin to offer this much improved service, the community will
be behind us.  And for the most part, the Dists are behind whatever the
community is.

So I agree on discussing how we will reply to him via IRC, but know my
feelings ahead of time :).

Jason



On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 02:29:43PM -0700, Aaron Turner wrote:
> 
> My guess is that he'd like to work out a content exchange between the two
> sites.  While I'm excited about the potential, I'm also a bit concerned
> because while we're both trying to do simular things, we're going about it
> in very different ways and with different goals in mind.  I don't want us
> to loose sight of those goals in an effort to work a deal.
> 
> One thing that Cheek has that we don't is the commercial connections.  
> His KB is being distributed with Caldera OpenLinux and ZD is using him on
> their Linux section.  I think though, it wouldn't take much for us to get
> a section on freshmeat.net if we did a "what's new page" just like
> slashdot, LinuxToday, and 32bitsOnline do. With my contacts with VA,
> getting a link off linux.com would be a phone call away.
> 
> Before we write back, we should decide what we want from him that is
> useful to us.  What kind of colaboration do we wish to do?  Is it too late
> for that?  We did talk to him a long time ago after all, and he basically
> snubed us.
> 
> Anyways, I'd like to do a IRC chat sometime Monday or Tuesday night to
> talk about this and go over potential developers.
> 
> --
> Aaron Turner, Core Developer       http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~aturner/
> Linux Knowledge Base Organization  http://www.linuxkb.org/
> Hanlon's Razor:
> Never attribute to malice, that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: 3 Jul 1999 17:29:26 -0000
> From: joseph@cheek.com
> To: jpincin@linuxkb.org, aturner@linuxkb.org, syntax@linuxkb.org,
>      micah@linuxkb.org
> Subject: Developer Interest: joseph cheek
> 
> Name:                        joseph cheek
> Email Address:               joseph@cheek.com
> Number of years using Linux: 3
> 
> Languages Spoken:
>   English
> 
> Other Open Source Projects I have worked on:
>   unices [defunct]    
>       
>       
> 
> Areas of interest:
>   Article_Submits
>   UserTools
>   Admin_Tools
>   Related_Links
>   Mirrors
> 
> Hours availabe per week:            1
> Have I used CVS before:             no
> Have I used IRC before:             yes
> Multi-developer project before:     yes
> 
> My Ratings: (scale of 0 - 4)
>   PHP               2
>   HTML              3
>   Perl              0
>   Mod_Perl          0
>   MySQL             0
>   C++               0
>   Graphics Design   2
> 
> Why I want to help:
> 
> my main interest is in working with you all to enhance both of our linux
> knowledge bases.  i talked with jason pincin several months ago, and aaron
> has contributed to my knowledge base also and is on our development list.
> 
> i have only checked a few things above, but there are many things i can
> contribute.