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Re: Collaboration on VMS
Hello, everyone :)
Nick Pelling wrote
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> My point is: unless our shared body of knowledge has its edges brutally
> (yet usefully) exposed in some way, all it amounts to is an extremely
> large, extremely diffuse dataset, that (like many legacy software systems)
> will get progressively harder to expand as time goes by. :-(
I agree, in the sense that a lot of things go by on the list which seem to
disappear, and, reading the list later as I've been doing just recently,
one wonders whether these ideas are still actively being pursued (and by
whom), have fallen asleep or have been rejected. Thus the challenges page
is very much a good idea if it can help to keep important questions "in
play" while pointing out dead-ends and future directions.
As for the web collaboration software, I for one use Linux rather than
Windows, and would therefore be opposed to anything which wasn't available
across all platforms. Besides which, our community _is_ rather loose and
therefore I'm not sure that the kind of collaboration software available,
which is usually designed for tighter-knit groups, would work. But
somebody who knows the software were to set up such a site we could try it
and see.
One other thing that I've thought of just now -- these days CD-ROMS are
cheap, and CD writers widely available, perhaps we could consider putting
all of our current tools/analyses/images etc etc onto a CD? Once one such
image was made it would be easy enough to copy it and send it to whoever
required it, and such a CD would mean that all the tools and info. would
be in one place easily to hand. Of course, copyright issues would have to
addressed. Comments?
Best wishes,
Greg
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