> From: Dirk Koopman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> On 11-Apr-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > 2> Other mechanisms do now exist. The Linux community at large has
> > built mechanisms for announcing/cataloging/advertising
> software. There
> > is no good reason why we should not use these mechanisms
> too. Examples
> > are http://freshmeat.net/ and the Linux Software Map.
>
> Yes, we should use freshmeat, but we also need a website (not ftp, or
> least only ftp) that holds information about Linux and Ham radio.
We've been the benificiaries of using Linux for our Web server for more than
3 years. Used to do all our email on Linux, too, before the IS folks got
involved and went to NT :-(
So I think it's only fair if in return I offer to host a Linux ham-radio
section on www.arrl.org. That should provide a good means of exposing Linux
ham-radio topics to hams in general, which I think is one of the principal
issues here.
How does that sound?
> > 3> The idea of the HAM-HOWTO was that it would be a
> community generated
> > document. That is, people would volunteer information about new
> > software as it is developed and/or found. To their credit,
> some people
> > have contributed, but I don't think enough have to call it
> a successful
> > collaborative exercise.
>
> It is not obvious that it is a community generated document
> and in order
> to make it so one must provide an easy mechanism to do the
> updating. There is
> no formal or easy to use mechanism to do this in place
> (e-mail by itself
> doesn't count).
Email is just the delivery mechanism. But the conversion to a structure of
Web documents would provide an opportunity to make its collaborative nature
more obvious.
> > 2> Provide a web site, like Joops, and extend it such that
> it is able
> > to automatically produce textual catalogs that could be posted
> > periodically on usenet/mailing lists etc. for those that don't have
> > interactive net access, and all else could use the web site when
> > they're looking for software.
>
> Yes.
Cool. We could also make the text-based material available via our automated
email responder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
> But this isn't sufficient. There needs to be a place where
> people can obtain
> step by step information on how to setup the software, that
> you are cataloging
> so dilligently.
>
> So this website (good idea) must contain the instructional
> parts of the
> HOW-TO and have a form based, moderated, response page that
> either allows
> people to add stuff to the 'HOW-TO' or generates an FAQ or both.
I'm all for that, but if we do it, we will need outside moderators (meaning:
not me) to vet the input.
Jon
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Jon Bloom, KE3Z
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