As a new Rev. user, I get a LOT from reading this list! But you know
what, I'm not sure that it's worth my time, at least the way that I am
doing it now. I need to find a more efficient way to manage this list.
Transforming this list into a docwiki seems like it has merit.
I ambiguous about the friendly bantering that goes on between members...
It is very useful in that you can "feel" the personalities coming out to
play. On the other hand when I'm trying to follow an issue that I'm
having a problem with at the moment, it gets in the way. How can I have
it both ways? I want it both ways!
Sometimes, I know I've read the answer to my problem before (in this
list) but I can't seem to find it. And then sometimes an answer never
really comes... (Do all Windows users have a CR/LF problem when printing
scripts or am I alone in this issue?)
Long live the list (until something better comes along.)
Dave
Marielle Lange wrote:
In our little corner of the programming universe, I think that most
anyone
only has time to skim, collect some valuable tidbits, contribute
answers as
time and mood permit, then go on with our lives.
If I decided to follow this path and contribute, my wife would kill me.
That's a very important point. I tried with similar projects in
education. Everybody is interested in having things made available
for free. Nobody is much interested (1) in taking
*responsibilities*... that is you are the one eventually working all
night to put everything back together in case a hacker decided to put
your site to the test and (2) in helping to fund the development of
"open" content or "open" source that would *immensely* benefit the
community in the longer term. So at the end, if you have been crazy
enough to start doing it, you end up being the one doing 90% of the
job that needs to be done, and on your hobby time.
Materials is easy to contribute. A clever and reliable
infrastructure, responsibly managed and maintainted, to host that
material often comes with a price tag (at least months full time).
For instance, I can afford to have my websites because maintenance is
made easy... thanks to the web hosting service I *pay* for (http://
www.ukhost4u.com/). Not much, I pay less than £5 a month, the price
of a computer magazine and I have a lot more fun playing with my
websites, I learn a lot more by getting in contact with interesting
persons via my websites. But what I pay for the web hosting gives an
idea of what would be required for a good infrastructure and a
quality service. Given the actual size of the revolution market,
assuming that a maximum of 200 persons are ready to pay for the
service (and this is overoptimistic, closer to reality would be 50),
about $5 a month per user should be collected for it to be viable
(worth the amount of time spent on this).
Who on this list would be ready to pay $5 a month... for an
infrastructure that largely exploits the material that comes out on
the mailing list anyway? Would you prefer to pay less but have the
website filled with ads?
Marielle
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Marielle Lange (PhD), Psycholinguist
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Homepage: http://homepages.lexicall.org/mlange/
Lexicall: http://lexicall.org
Revolution-education: http://revolution.lexicall.org
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