22 Apr
2010
22 Apr
'10
7:23 a.m.
Steve Maddison wrote:
Absolutely.
I can rig up mailing lists, version control hosting (I usually use
Mercurial, but the server is set up for Subversion too, IIRC) and so on
if necessary. Perhaps a Wiki too?
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/
The current data model has TOCs for a lot of documents
and I'd
definitely want to keep that feature. So for books/journals, you'd get
that for free.
In that case, I might be persuaded to enter the TOCs for all the
UK-edition Elektor magazines I have on-hand -- almost the complete run
from 1974 to 1986 (I'm missing May 1984, Jul/Aug
1984 and May 1986 to
Dec 1989). There are a lot of projects in there which
classiccmp'ers
might find interesting, and most central libraries seem to keep a
reasonable archive of them around.
- XML-based
API. Make the data available to other systems. Maybe limit
this to registered users to prevent (or at least reduce the
likelihood of) data-scraping and the associated bandwidth/CPU costs.
And possibly enabled/disabled at the discretion of the person hosting
a particular mirror. I'd be
happy to contribute hosting, development time and such.
Great! Looks like we have a good few volunteers. I'm wondering how we
can best co-ordinate our efforts. If may be enough to simply keep
others informed of what we're thinking about and working on. Myself,
I'm going to brainstorm a bit more, but I wouldn't mind drafting a
preliminary design some time soon.