Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] OSIE write-up 0.0.1 - OSIE site 0.0.0 .1(!)now on-line
OSIE write-up 0.0.1 - OSIE site 0.0.0.1(!)now on-line
I think I have missed an email somewhere ... could someone forward a copy of this 'announcment' to me please ? Also - where did this come from ? I don't recall seeing anyone who expressed an interest in being part of OS(I)E being asked in this agreed public forum if it was OK to put up osie.org.uk ... I thought that we had agreed that all discussion about OSIE must take place on the SuSE list until such time as we have our own mailing list ... ? We really MUST act as a group and get the groups agreement for things - there can be no actions taken (in my view) by myself, Roger, Malcolm or anyone else without the consensus of the OSE group as it stands today - this has to be the case otherwise it will not be seen as an independent organisation. Who authorised the publication of the site as osie.org.uk with this content ? As far as I can see it has not come from the interested parties present at the meeting - I remember no action to 'put up a temporary OSIE web site'. The site is good, the content is good, but we have to be acting as a group otherwise what is the point ? Also - Michael, how are you justified in using an email address of mbrown@osie.org.uk when this has not been discussed ? I appologise to Michael for the tone of this email - but I feel that this is all a bit premature and not involving the other people who strongly want to be involved. I myself was going to create a Virtual Schools LUG web site and Malcolm has been running ose.org.uk for sometime, but we all agreed not to do anything until we had the meeting - and now we find that suddenly, this new site has come into being without any of us being involved ! Especially when I thought it was obvious from the meeting that there are many people who *do* want to be involved. Kevin.
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 kevin.taylor@powerconv.alstom.com wrote:
Also - where did this come from ? I don't recall seeing anyone who expressed an interest in being part of OS(I)E being asked in this agreed public forum if it was OK to put up osie.org.uk ...
osie.org.uk only exists as a placeholder domain - see previous post.
Who authorised the publication of the site as osie.org.uk with this content ? As far as I can see it has not come from the interested parties present at the meeting - I remember no action to 'put up a temporary OSIE web site'.
It hasn't *been* published as osie.org.uk! It hasn't been published as anything! It's a temporary, private site, accessible only to people on this list, based mainly around the code that I had already written (which we agreed at the meeting would be transplanted to an OSIE site).
The site is good, the content is good, but we have to be acting as a group otherwise what is the point ?
Well, all I've done is put a little flesh around the database-generated code that already existed (although, to be fair, you wouldn't have seen the people/organisations bits before because they were never exposed on the Fen Systems web site) so that the site makes sense when you go in and look at it. As I have already said, I am aiming to dump the source code on SourceForge and GPL it, all as agreed last Monday, as soon as I tidy up some of the more embarrassing 'quick hacks' - you don't get much more group-like than a GPL project on SF.
Also - Michael, how are you justified in using an email address of mbrown@osie.org.uk when this has not been discussed ?
Sorry - it was meant to indicate the purely non-commercial nature of the e-mail. In retrospect, it was probably a bad idea, but give me a break - it was half past two in the morning! :-)
I appologise to Michael for the tone of this email - but I feel that this is all a bit premature and not involving the other people who strongly want to be involved. I myself was going to create a Virtual Schools LUG web site and Malcolm has been running ose.org.uk for sometime, but we all agreed not to do anything until we had the meeting - and now we find that suddenly, this new site has come into being without any of us being involved ! Especially when I thought it was obvious from the meeting that there are many people who *do* want to be involved.
There's hardly anything on the 'temporary' site at the moment - it's only a skeletal framework to put some kind of usable front end onto the database code (it's easier to create a usable front end than to write detailed instructions of how to access code without a front end). Sorry if I have offended you, but I do think you are over-reacting a little: the site has not been "published", it hardly contains any information at this point, and I have already stated that I intend to dump what little does exist onto SourceForge and have asked people who want to be involved to say so in order that we can start working as a group. I assume you want to be added as a project admin / developer - what is your SourceForge username? Michael
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