[wplug-web]new website initiative

[Zach Paine]

I'd definitely like to help.  Mark I like a lot of the ideas that you came up.  
They sound uber-cool.  Should we arrange for a (dinner?) meeting for those 
interested?

	-Zach

On Tuesday 05 November 2002 02:15 pm, Mark Dalrymple wrote:
> > I'd like anyone who is interested in brainstorming to join the
> > wplug-web mailing list.
>
> Some stuff off the top of my head.
>
>
> Stuff we'd prettty much have to have:
>   * time, date, location of current and upcoming GUMs, along with program
> (if any) * minutes from previous GUMs
>   * whatever board-of-directors tools exist
>   * email archives
>   * random static content
>     = mailing list info
>     = IRC info and etiquette guide
>     = maps to GUMs
>     = James O'Kane fund information
>     = bios and pictures of our board
>     = pointer to MarkDude's LDP archives
>   * breaking news
>
> Stuff that'd be cool:
>   * instructional materials from past GUMs that folks are willing to let us
> put online * polls and surveys
>   * personal home pages / blogs (with an appropriate terms of service
> policy) * a place for book reviews
>   * a place for folks to publish random technical documents
>   * screenshot of the moment
>   * monkeybot's words of wisdom (random factoid)
>   * everything searchable
>   * a mentor/mentee dating service
>     = person1: registers "i'm an oracle expert" on the site
>       person2: queries "I'm having trouble installing Oracle" and emails
> person1 person1: emails "bring your machine to the next installpest and
> I'll work with you" * GUM member brag page
>     = "mpop just got a job supervising the IT department of a major
> accounting firm" = "Billings teaches perl at LISA"
>     = "markd2 hit by a bus"
>     = "jo2y's kitchen sponsored"
>   * monkeybot gateway ("monkeybot, when's the next gum?"  "for the last
> time, i am not talking to you anymore!") * ecommerce, selling t-shirts,
> books, bumper stickers
>   * local resources
>     = like "what's a good local linux friendly ISP" (not alltel)
>     = or "what's a half-decent ISP"  (not alltel)
>     = or "I am a sysadmin consultant who can code in C"
>
> ++Mark Dalrymple, markd at badgertronics.com.  http://badgertronics.com
>   "A large user community of hackers with operating system sources and no
>    social lives are a tremendous asset; just look at Linux." -- Martin
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