Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site luke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!bene!luke!itkin From: itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Net.software.projects group idea Message-ID: <314@luke.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 14:35:29 EDT Article-I.D.: luke.314 Posted: Thu Aug 15 14:35:29 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 07:45:19 EDT References: <134@isis.UUCP> Reply-To: itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List) Organization: Benetics Corp, Mt.View, CA Lines: 36 Keywords: distributed software projects Summary: In article <134@isis.UUCP> aburt@isis.UUCP (Andrew Burt) writes: >Being a software developer like so many of us, it strikes me that one of >the golden opportunities of having the net is going unnoticed -- distributed >projects. >... >Rather than having lots of individualized efforts going on, why not >create a newsgroup, say, net.software.projects, whose sole purpose is to >post ideas on software you're planning to write / are writing / would >like to see written. I think the idea is a good one. I would make two suggestions: make it a moderated group and name it mod.projects.software. Then if Andrew's suspicion that there is applicability outside software materializes, the other names fall on naturally. As for it being a moderated group, there are several potential advantages: - a moderator could maintain an up-to-date list of ongoing projects and their contacts. This list could then be organized along all sorts of useful lines (by category, region, language, and so on) - a moderator could ensure that ideas of similar type get grouped together in the postings I would suggest that Andrew consider becoming moderator if there is indeed a desire for this group. The only immediate question I have is where's the traffic? According to recent reports, the idea is to create a newsgroup to relieve an existing group of excessive, special-interest, traffic. Where is it? -- *** * Steven List @ Benetics Corporation, Mt. View, CA * Just part of the stock at "Uncle Bene's Farm" * {cdp,greipa,idi,oliveb,sun,tolerant}!bene!luke!itkin ***