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Subject: 
Organizing volunteer coders [was: Dear NNTP users]
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Date: 
Sat, 23 Jul 2005 21:27:33 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger wrote:
I think we might be able to find many volunteers that want to help.  But
requiring someone full-time poses a really big problem, as far as I can
tell.

Yes, difficult to find a full-time individual who would be available for the
duration of any significant (re)development.

Also probably hard to find a part-time manager dedicated enough to oversee work
done by many. I have received some offers for help. But I don't know who would
organize them.

How about using SourceForge to start a clean rebuild of LUGNET's code? in Perl.
If they used the dev server, (say four programmers), how feasible do you think
it would be to just build the equivilent of what we have here now?

I'm not sure which problem we're trying to solve though - RSS/SMTP/NNTP
all serve similar, but different needs.

There's no problem to solve, just discussing.



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  Re: Organizing volunteer coders [was: Dear NNTP users]
 
(...) From what I understand, OS projects don't always look for a single person to organize everyone for the whole time - as people lose interest, others step in. While the larger projects often have a "visionary" leader (Larry Wall, Linus (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) Well, didn't we decide that we all love it? :) (...) I think it's a really nice feature to have (and a great differential between LUGNET and other boards), but for me, SMTP support is more important than NNTP. Not just because that's what I (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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