I'm still a little concerned about putting the cart before the horse.
It is easier to convince people to support an existing project that is
underway rather than passing the hat around and promising that it will
go to a worthy cause.
I see the current issue as being 44 little kingdoms that have almost
zero contact with each other. There are a lot of local projects and
information in those 44 kingdoms. CLUE should not be trying to set up
the 45th kingdom but rather trying to get the other 44 to talk to each
other.
This is not done by setting up a mailing and telling everybody to
subscribe, I'm sure we all get enough e-mail already. The best way to
this is to create standards (or preferably adopt existing standards)
that allow websites to exchange information automatically (rss/rdf/xml
etc). The system will take longer to set up and will require someone or
a group to make design decisions, but it should require minimal
maintenance.
The adoption of Linux and open source is important but I'm sure it does
(and should) take a back seat to putting food on the table and keeping a
roof over one's head, especially if one is raising a family. There is
currently a lot of interest in resurrecting CLUE, the time and resources
should be spent building up the infrastructure, not lining up the hordes
for battle.
Every project has setbacks, the more infrastructure that is in place
before the setbacks, the less rebuilding needs to be done when the
project picks up again. With no disrespect to the efforts of Evan, Matt
and others, CLUE is basically starting over from scratch. People do not
get discouraged working on big projects, they get discouraged when the
projects end up in the exact same place it started from.
People don't ask for instructions, they ask for directions. ;-)
Ian
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