Re: Hi!

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner@best.com>]

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On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Lenz Grimmer wrote:

> Is there a list of all participants available? It would be nice to have
> a short overview of you folks out there :)

You, me, Micah, and  Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu> who maintains the
SEUL site at MIT.  Technically only the first 3 are actually going to be
working on the site.  I'm hoping to get about 1-3 more people to be a
part of the core group.
 
> > Basically we're at ground zero + 1 meter.  We've got a concept for a
> > site, and we've got a a good place to host it free of charge for
> > listing them as a supporter.
> 
> That sounds good so far.
> 
> > Right now we're in the planning phase of:
> > 
> > 1) Getting 1-3 more people to help with the inital launch of the site
> > 2) What information to include and how to present it
> > 3) Deciding on the various technologies we need to impliment (PHP, SQL,
> > etc)
> > 4) How much local content vs. linked-to content and deciding what we
> > mirror.
> 
> IMHO, we should avoid reinventing the wheel. There's so much information
> floating around, but it's often hard to find. Mirroring is ok, especially
> for documents that are valuable but not in popular places.

Mirroring also helps with running a search engine and our site will have
better connectivity than most of the Linux sites out there now.  I agree,
though, first job is to add what's already out there before we start
adding new content.  The only exception to this would be the Linux
Business Finder app.

> > If you haven't seen http://linuxkb.seul.org/ yet, be sure to check it out.
> > It's far from a complete description, but it should give you the broad
> > overview.
> 
> Thanks, I'll have a look on it.
> 
> > The initial concept what to take the Red Hat Linux User's FAQ's
> > content and integrate it with a new site that is non-distribution
> > centric.  I'm hoping to have specfic content for Red Hat, SUSE, and
> > Debian, as well as more generic content that covers all distributions.
> 
> That sounds like a good start up. We shouldn't spend too much time on
> discussing the details...

The only concern right now is building a site that scales as we add more
and more content.  The information has to be easily accessable or our work
is for loss.  But going into the small details right now is probably
overkill. What I'm trying to find out what each person is most interested
in doing. Micah for example is working on the DB backend for the articles
we'll be hosting.  What interests you?  Once you decide what you feel
you're qualified to do (and interests you) let me know and come up with a
top-level plan of how it will work (that way we can work out any interop
issues with other parts of the site).

- -Aaron

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