Re: [Ebiness-crawler] I'm Mari (Introduction)

[Mike D. <md...@ki...>]

Hi all,

On Sun, 13 May 2001, Mari Kannan wrote:

<snip>

> Mike, I have a request for you. Why dont u document your
> requirements or idea in a word document or text file and
> keep it updated. Because I found it difficult to dig the
> whole story. The initial mails are archived and when i 
> tried to access it said the server was getting backedup so 
> cant access for an hour or so.
> 
> Not only for that, tracking some things in mail going to be 
> tuff. I dont mind volunteering for this work. But as I dont 
> know the things from starting, no way I can do it.
> 
> So please put all your ideas and if the requirement could 
> be documented that also and mail it to the list?
> 

Yup, that sounds like a good plan... I was going to do something like
this, Sellaro suggested using the task manager, which is probably a good
idea - that's what SF is all about, right? :-)

Also, I think it's a good idea to start using the documentation manager
and the http://ebiness.sourceforge.net website to manage docs and
requirements.

And thanks for the intro - could everyone else please introduce
yourselves? It would be good for everyone to know who's who, what your
capabilites are and what you're interested in!

I'll start with myself:

I'm Mike Davis, lived in both Canada and South Africa, now living in the
UK.

At the moment I've been doing some Perl work for an Sports Media company,
which is about to go bust, which is why I've been so quiet for
the past week or so. My main area of interest and skill is on the
C++/Unix/Networking side of things, which makes this project quite
interesting for me. I'm also quite keen to get to know OpenGL and graphics
programming in general.

I've done tons of other languages and played with lots of
technologies, but I won't bore you with the details. Most of my work
has involved the Internet in some way or other, which I've worked with
since 1994, having been a BBS freak before that.

The project was inspired by the incredible poster 'The Whole Internet',
done by Peacock Maps (http://www.peacockmaps.com/). I thought I'd go a bit
further and build a system that would allow someone to look at the way
different sites interlink, in 3D. 

So far it's been a year and a bit (only started the SF site in September)
and now I think it's time to get things moving along a bit faster - that's
where you guys come in and hopefully we can build something nice and cool
and not take another year to finish! :-)

Anyway, as I mentioned before, the company I'm currently working for is
possibly closing down, so I've decided to take some time off (two weeks)
and focus on various things, including getting another contract, but
mainly this project... so expect a lot of mail and please excuse me if I
get a bit distracted sometimes. 

The way I'd like to work it is to split the tasks up into a few big pieces 
and then hand them off to people. Sellaro has agreed to be the 'Storage'
person, and hopefully the rest of you will be interested in a
particular area enough to take charge of it... or just participate if you
haven't got enough time.

cya
Mike