@Dave, The additional benefit would be to provide a more general approach to a zLinux information/community site, leveraging some of the newer web technologies and social aspects that seem to be "popular to the masses". As I stated before, this site isn't meant to take ANYTHING away from linuxvm.org (or any other site). linuxvm.org is an outstanding site for technical information. The benefit I see, is the structor of this site would be easily searchable and indexable content, essentially easy access to information (both tech and industry), as well as many other area's.
In regards to "plan to pay contributors", that sort of takes away from the community aspect, but I guess it would always be a possibility if the site ever got to that level. Once again, this goal of the site is to be more community driven/interaction, trying to avoid the standard "this is my site, here's my content" approach. I'm not "press" or a "magazine" trying to get free content, and certainly not looking to produce any sort of income. As a matter of fact, I'm paying out of my own pocket for hosting, etc, every month. I'm not a company, a business, some new start-up looking to make a buck, simply a fellow zLinux sysadmin who enjoy's tinkering with web design/implementation and figured if I could start something that would benefit the community as a whole, then great! If not, no harm no foul... @Mark, As I just got done typing the previous paragraph and my past experience, I can certainly agree that getting folks involved "for the greater good" is always the stick in the mud. If your already working on something that I can direct my efforts in that direction, I would certainly be willing to. Might even be able to combine this "new" effort with your idea's and get some sort of organized community site as an outcome. Feel free to shoot me an email if you think there's a way to approach it. I certainly have a couple idea's I wouldn't mind bouncing around if anyone's willing to listen. -Floyd Rodery ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
