From owner-freebsd-doc  Tue Sep 19  3:24:28 2000
Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Received: from venus.virtual-earth.de (venus.virtual-earth.de [62.208.47.102])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id 4200737B422; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 03:24:22 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from virtual-earth.de (venus.virtual-earth.de [127.0.0.1])
	by venus.virtual-earth.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA39057;
	Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:24:16 +0200 (CEST)
	(envelope-from mathiasp@virtual-earth.de)
Message-Id: <200009191024.MAA39057@venus.virtual-earth.de>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:24:13 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mathias.Picker@virtual-earth.de
Subject: Re: Scrollkeeper (was Re: An opportunity for FreeBSD)
To: doc@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <20000919100308.A2019@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT
Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org

Well, this slashdot thread
(http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/00/09/18/2230256.shtml) brings me to
the question if it might be beneficial if scrollkeeper could also be
used to describe / catalogue the software, not only the documentation
about it.


Long quote still kept for context...


On 19 Sep, Nik Clayton wrote:
> Hi chaps,
> 
> I've added -ports in to this discussion, but reply-to is set back to
> -doc.
> 
> Long quote kept for context.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 11:17:02PM +0100, Andrew Boothman wrote:
>> On 18-Sep-00 Mark Ovens wrote:
>> > I fired off an e-mail to a couple of contacts Nik gave me, one of
>> > the replies I got is included at the end of this mail. As you can
>> > see the project is only just getting started and as yet no code has
>> > been produced. Currently the webpage mentioned in the e-mail has
>> > been taken down as they discovered that the name "Dewey" (from the
>> > Dewey-decimel system used for cataloguing by libraries) was
>> > trade-marked. The project is looking for a new name.
>> 
>> Now called "ScrollKeeper", it would appear.
>> http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net
>> 
>> >From what you've said, and from what information is available on
>> >their web
>> site, this certainly sounds like a project worth getting involved in.
>> 
>> > I have subscribed to the mailing list (which is rather quiet at the
>> > moment, but should liven up once code is available) and would like
>> > to be able to announce that FreeBSD is "officially" supporting the 
>> > project (which means a committment to adopting Dewey for the 
>> > ports/packages when it reaches production quality). I am willing to 
>> > act as co-ordinator for this and will attempt to do most of the
>> > work.
>> 
>> Great. I've also subscribed to their list, just so I can stay in the
>> loop and offer up any help where I feel I can.
>> 
>> With regard to "officially" deciding to support the project, I guess
>> after sufficent discussion Nik and Satoshi could a rubber-stamp our
>> final decision.
> 
> For the record, I'm fully in support of this, up to and including
> making sure that our documentation set is categorised using it.  For
> those of you reading this on the -ports list I think this is an effort
> we need to support -- at the very least by making it possible (note:
> *not* mandatory) for our ports to 'install' this metadata where
> appropriate.
> 
> If any interested parties would like to meet up at BSDCon to discuss
> this then let me know.
> 
> N

-- 
                            virtual earth
 Mathias Picker
 Geschäftsführer      Gesellschaft für Wissens re/prä sentation mbH

                            Mathias.Picker@virtual-earth.de 
			    Fon +49 89  / 540 7425-1
                            Fax +49 89  / 540 7425-9




To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message