control freak? Maybe.

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

Well after reading 50+ submissions I'm not sure I want to share the search
engine.  Last I heard from Jason, the hacks to htsearch won't be necessary
with the new database structure.  Assuming that's true, it would be faster
for me to make the final last modifications to the search engine myself
than try to get someone else up to speed.  If the hacks are still
necessary, then maybe one of:

Thomas Buschhorn
Victor Stanescu
Dean Giberson

would be helpful.

For the LBF, since this isn't necessary for go-live, no need to deal with
trying to manage people working on this project.  I'm not sure how big of
a project this is right now since I'm still working on the feature list.

The mirror project is going to require some complex Perl scripts and some
SQL knowledge.  I found a few people who I think would be a good match,
but honestly, before I bring anyone on, Jason and I need to come to an
understanding on what this is for.  My goal for the record is to (not sure
how to do this) integrate content that isn't written specifically for our
site (LDP, Linux Gazette, man pages, etc) into the database.  The issue is
that we have to present the external content in as a URL in the form of:

http://www.linuxkb.org/mirrors/

Hence, external docs will not only be listed in "related links" but in the
actual category tree.  Also, I expect the email gateway we discussed will
maintained by this project/group as well.

One thing we can start immediately and that anyone can do is start
tracking down good sites to mirror.  Anyone who doesn't have the
experiance or time to do development can scour the web for sites we should
mirror.  

Another bright idea I have is an auto-mirror form.  Basically a site admin
goes to this form, fills it out, and it sets up the scripts to start
mirroring their site.  As an added bonus, they have the option of checking
a box signaling they grant us the right to include their content in our
database.  This makes the legal chore of contacting each site admin way
too simple.  :-)  We could announce this service on Freshmeat/LT/etc and
I'm sure we'll see scores of small Linux support web sites sign up.

Basically, we become *the* Linux support _portal_.  The possibilities are
endless.

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Aaron Turner, Core Developer       http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~aturner/
Linux Knowledge Base Organization  http://linuxkb.org/
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Never attribute to malice, that which is adequately explained by stupidity.