On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Alan Harris wrote:
Can we have a posting clarifying the situation with regard to who does what within OSE/OSIE?
As far as I'm concerned, and I think that most other people will think the same (I may be wrong):
Who's on the admin team?
Anyone who wants to be.
Who's on the editorial team?
Anyone who wants to be.
Who's on the content team?
Anyone who wants to be.
What part do you want school's people to play?
Whatever part they want to play. Personally, I would like it if every school using free, open source software could at least write a description of their setup: what they have, what they use it for, what they like/dislike about it etc., even if they don't want to take a more active role.
Perhaps members could make a single posting to this list stating their area of expertise / interest and in what area of OSE/OSIE they would like to participate and, perhaps a brief resume of thier current projects / developments etc and what organisations (if any) that they represent. If your happy with this idea then I'm quite prepared to start the ball rolling...... Thoughts Roger, Malcolm, Micheal et al?
Can I suggest that we follow Kevin's idea and migrate to a new list first? As I said, osie-general@lists.sourceforge.net is available for use if wanted (I suggest that a "general" list is a good place to sort out issues such as which other mailing lists we want to create!). Incidentally, the database structure currently in place would make an ideal repository for the some of the information you are asking for. It contains records for: people (name, e-mail, short description (1 pgh), long description) organisations (name, e-mail, website, contact details, short description, long description) A "jobs" table that links people to organisations (with a "job title" or "role" for each link) A "specialisations" table that contains a list of areas that organisations can claim to "specialise" in (e.g. Linux, FreeBSD, Self-built systems, Pre-installed systems, Consultancy, etc.) An "organisation links" table that links organisations to each other, with a descriptive paragraph for the nature of the link (e.g. SuSE-Westwood would, AFAIK, be something along the lines of "Westwood St. Thomas has a number of workstations running SuSE Linux 7.1"). The reports to generate useful information from this data are already in place and include some cute features (try clicking on the postcode for any organisation, for example). Hopefully, we can move to SourceForge (for project admin, not just the mailing list - I agree with Kevin that SF is a good way to manage the project) as soon as possible so that the existing code can be released and we can all start working to make it a Really Useful(TM) web site. Michael