Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Re: Clarification (fwd) - COOL!

[Tom Chance]

BRILLIANT!
Just when I thought that we might as well all pack our
bags and give up, or join Nupedia, I get this :)

So I take it we will have:

*) Our own web site
*) Our own servers + setup
*) Our own moderation system

Will we share article resources with Nupedia?

Oh and I think now would be a good time to get up a
first shot at the hosting, within the next few weeks.
I think we have all agreed that we should start off
like this:

*) XML files for storage
*) A database (SQL?) to keep the index in
*) HTML for the frontend display
*) Perl to handle the submissions + displaying etc.

If we can work on gettting some serves set up with
this ready, and available so we can fiddle with it as
we wish, then we can start writing the software
required to host it all, start finalising the
article/web site layout (first version of...), and get
some of the article's we have received up on a site!
So anyone with ideas on the detailed technical side of
those four issues (like the rather detailed thing rob
and I did for the outvoted system at
http://www.state-embers.co.uk/alexandria) should get
them written up soon.

If you could go and look at that URL anyway, because
if we use a database for the index, Rob and I have
worked out most of the technical details of the
database already (at the bottom).


Hector - how soon can we get the servers etc. so we
can start hosting stuff?


Tom Chance




--- Hector Facundo Arena <address@hidden>
wrote: > Well, we can keep doing our work. The FSF
decided to
> keep this project
> alive, and I'll work on it.
> 
> Please, read the RMS's reply to a Jimmy Wales email.
> 
>
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> Jimmy Wales said...
> 
>     I'm willing to accept the idea of Hector leading
> an "alternative
>     encyclopedia pages" project.  By "accept" I mean
> that if that's
>     what you guys want to do, I will get behind it
> and support it publicly
>     100%.
> 
> RMS: Thank you.  That is what we should do, because
> it is a way that
> everyone involved can feel good enough about it to
> participate.
> 
>     But if Hector's project is going to be an
> _encyclopedia_, in the sense
>     of accepting only encyclopedia articles, then
> there is no need for two
>     projects at all.
> 
> RMS: The practical difference is that he wants not
> to have editorial
> control.  But also, he wants to be independent.  He
> doesn't want to be
> working under a company.  I think he has found
> people with similar
> ideas who want to work with him.
> 
> RMS: Maybe there is no inherent reason why a project
> of this kind should
> not be part of Nupedia.  But given the personal
> situation, I think
> that it needs to be separate.  It will enable him
> and the people he
> has found to keep working in a way they feel
> comfortable with, and
> produce useful work.
> 
> RMS:So let's go ahead with the plan that the GNU
> Project endorses Nupedia
> principally, but also sponsors the alternate
> encyclopedia to
> complement Nupedia.
> 
> 
> 
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