Great idea ShakataGaNai.

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From: Jon Davis 
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 8:44 PM
To: Wikinews mailing list 
Subject: [Wikinews-l] Grand Unified Wikinews Technology Center


All,
As you may know, we Wikinewsies are the most technologically advanced of any 
group.  We've got a bunch of tech toys, and some of the coolest gadgets.  One 
of the problems with all our toys is that the source code is 
stored...everywhere.  Some of the scripts aren't even published publicly.  This 
isn't a problem on day to day activity, but what if a person leaves the 
project, goes MIA or god forbid something worse happens to them.

So I've started the Grand Unified Wikinews Technology Center.  Really, the core 
goal of this "project" is to get all the source code for all our goodies in one 
place.  That happens to be setup at http://code.google.com/p/enwikinews/ .  If 
you aren't familiar with Google Code, basically it is a code repository, wiki 
and bug tracker all rolled into one.  

For improved communication, I've started #wikinews-tech on freenode and 
Wikinews-Tech-L on Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/wikinews-tech 
.  Some have asked the usefulness of Yet Another Mailing List.  It may or may 
not be useful, but at least this way we can send more regular emails about 
technical things (bitch/moan/complain about Javascript breaking) and not 
irritate everyone.

.......

So, how does this effect you?  If you care about technology, write scripts, 
apps and etc... feel free to stop by.  I'm happy to give anyone that wants to 
code, commit access.  You can stop by IRC, mail me off list...what ever.  If 
you don't care about technology, coding or anything of that jazz, feel free to 
ignore us.

-- 
Jon 
[[User:ShakataGaNai]] / KJ6FNQ
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