chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 6:50 AM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm working on a personal project has some rather odd (OK already >> WEIRD ;) goals and constraints. I wish to ask questions without >> getting referrals to "How to ask a question" or "don't do that" etc. >> > > Wes put his response to this well, and I agree with it. > > I think your title was even more spot-on when it used the term > "brainstorming". The best place to get rapid interchange of ideas is in > some real-time forum: say, a PLUG meeting after-beers (or even an explicit > meeting to brainstorm on this topic :)) Fall back to a group chat like IRC > which has some benefits over in-person meeting: serves geo-distributed > participants and can allow a history upon which people who couldn't attend > due to time constraints can still comment.
I chose "brainstorming" not for implication rapid exchanges but for looser constraints on proper questions. > > Your constraints are as Wes pointed out pretty narrow and specific. How > about you tell us the *problem you're trying to solve* [snip] My questions come not so much from a problem I'm attempting to solve as from having been inspired by questions/barriers/etc I ran into when doing a first time install without geographically close users. Both some goals and some restrictions were prompted by my investigation of distros other than Debian. > [snip] > > That said, it sounds like some fertile grounds for what you *appear* to be > trying to accomplish would be in distributions (surely some are > debian-based) designed for space or third world countries, where bandwidth > to the outside is extremely limited. Some of my inspiration came from reading posts from early embedded Debian projects. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
