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Re: Status update
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Well said.
I agree, that none of the existing "KB's" have figured it out yet. The
closest I've seen is: http://www.mediadrone.com/linux/ but they don't know
how to advertise (I found them in Letters to the Editor in the Linux
Journal). They have other problems, that I'll leave as an exercise
the the reader. :-) Right now though everyone knows:
linuxkb.cheek.com
www.linuxcare.com
www.redhat.com (what a joke though)
The biggest complaint I have with the sites is the interface is horrible.
Clearly our drill-down feature kicks butt. LinuxCare is well advertised
but their site is too slow IMHO thanks to the tons of JavaScript and other
eye-candy. Their search only interface is difficult at best. Cheek is
probably the closest, (he even accepts recomendations from people to link
to) but even still, no direct user contributed content.
Anyways, enough of that. :-)
Our biggest problem will be to get people to submit answers. People will
help if they already see a large number of entries. It's a chicken-egg
thing.
I think we need three things:
1) Those entry submission forms which Daniel has said he'd do. (Daniel,
be sure people can do a file upload of the content of the answer.)
2) Figure out a good way to start integrating man pages, LDP docs, etc to
the site. It actually won't be that difficult to index, I'll even
volunteer to do it. I just need to know how to get it integrated to the
MySQL DB. Maybe we need #1 for this?
3) The email->DB interface. I'm eager to write this. Which brings me to
the DB. Jason, is: http://devel.linuxkb.org/db2.html up-to-date? Also,
what fields are required? Do we have a list of the meanings for the
various ID's? I have no idea what to set Status->StatusID (int) to for
example. Basically I can write the perl/procmail code, I just need to
know what the perl script needs to do DB-wise. I'm an SQL baby so be
kind. ;-)
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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Daniel E. Markle wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 04:32:11PM -0700, Aaron D. Turner wrote:
> > that I don't think we can't overcome, but getting our name recognition is
> > important. The longer we wait, the more intrenched the others become.
>
> I agree here with some things, but in this case I don't. Let me ask you this,
> do you use any of those other "kb's"? Do you know anyone who does? Yes, a
> couple people do, but they aren't good enough to be "killer". It's like
> xpaint, it was around earlier than gimp, but gimp destroyed it
> popularity-wise. Their "kb's" quite frankly suck. They just aren't any more
> useful than using the resources yourself. We aren't just building a search
> engine around existing content, we are creating a new open source
> architecture for the creation of help content. This is where we are totally
> different than the rest. It's like the difference between wired magazine
> online and slashdot.org.
>
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