Re: IRC- what happened?

[Jason Pincin <jpincin@ashtech.net>]

Sorry about IRC.  I left the house (forgetting all about it) and didn't get back
til late. I'm free all weekend.... primarily all day Saturday and up until evening
on Sunday.

About the announcment... 

I have no problem announcing it everywhere you listed... except for Slashdot.
Slashdot is unique among all of them, and I'd rather wait a little longer before we
announce there.

As far as applications recieved... I say we set up a mailbox for incoming apps that
forwards to Aaron and I so that I can assist you in the review of these.  I'll have
a ton of questions :).

Good news on the licenses.  Nice work.

Jason



On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 07:01:02PM -0700, Aaron Turner wrote:
> 
> I know I was late (traffic getting home from work), but I wasn't that
> late???
> 
> Anyways, I might as well email this out.
> 
> 1)  Had my lawyer friend look at the license I cooked up from the Netscape
> Open Directory.  He says it looks pretty good.  He suggested we may want
> to move 2(d) and 2(e) into 5 and 6, but it wasn't necessary.  He also
> pointed out that keeping it the way it is, makes it easier to see what
> changes we made to the NODL.  The only issue is that the NODL is that it's
> copywrited by Netscape, so I contacted Netscape's legal dept.  Talked to a
> nice guy named Matt who said it shouldn't be a problem, so I emailed him
> an 'offical request'.
> 
> 2)  I think we should strongly consider making an annoucement to the world
> about our project in order to get more help.  I've already talked to VA
> and they're cool with it.   I would suggest we write some info about the
> project and what skills we're looking for and email:
> - freshmeat.net
> - Linux Weekly News
> - Linux Today
> - Slashdot
> - C.O.L.A.
> 
> The main reason for this is that this project is taking a *long* time.
> I've been working on it since Oct/Nov last year.  Would be nice to go live
> before the turn of the century. :-)  Yes, we're making progress, but it
> could be going a lot faster.  The usertools section devel is dead again
> while Micah is out of town.  I haven't seen any updates to the other forms
> in CVS in a long either.  I'm not saying people aren't working hard, but
> that there is too much work to go around.
> 
> Also you may notice that Cheek is looking for developers as well.  I think
> if we explain what we're doing and how we're doing it, we won't have much
> of a problem convincing people to join us.
> 
> Also, my lawyer friend is one of the founders of a new Linux company and
> he has a lot of contacts with the Gnome group.  He's offered to pass along
> any announcements to them and ask them to pass it along as well.
> 
> Anyways, I'm willing to write the web page, announcement, and take the job
> of sorting through the would-be-developers.  I'm at a good stopping point
> in the search engine anyways.  If we can agree on this soon, I should be
> all ready by Monday.
> 
> -Aaron
> 
>