On 9/7/05, Jack Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're getting close to actually assigning some numbers to parts and > doucments. > Where are we going to keep the number logs? Conventional > single-site drafting departments almost always keep number logs on paper > with pencils, so that computer accidents (or the obsolescence of entire > generations of computer technology) don't result in irrecoverable chaos. > Does Traversal have an office yet? Or is the team permanently dispersed? > If the latter, maybe the best possibility is to keep the live number logs > on-line as wikis, and establish a procedure to back them up on floppies at > several locations at set times. Good floppies last at least 25 years, and > plain text on IBM-formatted media is not going to go obsolete in the > foreseeable future. Hard copy is more permanent, but floppies can be > uploaded for restoration or hardware replacement.
We're dispersed for now, possibly permanently. A wiki would be good, but do we need to be bothering the world with our internal part numbers? We'll have to come up with a way to handle that. I'll talk to my partners. Thanks for the help! _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
