Re: [misterhouse-users] docs. was: development roadmap

[Clint D. <cl...@ic...>]

Timothy Cahill wrote:
> 
> Of course, as this group is a mail list, and not a news group, google
> doesn't have it in its archive. What would be quite cool would be for
> somebody to come up with a way for this archive to be browsable in a
> useful way, or even to find a way that would permit some collaborative
> 'distilling' of the mail archive into the Twiki site. Obviously twiki
> is ready made for collaboration, but my archive itself is not in
> presently in a format that lends itself to collaboration. The
> attachment snippet.txt is a small sample of the file format.
> 
> I can save the whole shebang as a eudora-compatible unix message file,
> and send it to anybody who's interested in having a look. No, wait,
> the file is 38MB uncompressed. Oh, that's better .... 7 MB as a zip
> file. That's still a tad big to send out on a per-request basis over
> my dial-up modem. 
> 
> On second thought, maybe there is someplace where I could FTP the
> archive to, so that everybody could have on-demand access to it. We'd
> still need to figure out what to do with it, but at least anybody who
> wanted to could have a look. Perhaps someone knows of a complete
> archive someplace that would be a better candidate for distilling.

Hi, Timothy.  I _just_ joined this mailing list - literally, about 2
hours ago!  My "ActiveHome" kit is on order from x10.com, I've got my
Linux server setup and configured, and am now scouring the web for
home automation information.  MH is the obvious choice for a Linux/SA
hack like myself and I'm looking forward to contributing and learning
all I can.

As I'm currently running the REALbasic archive for the Mac development
language, I see this server as a possible "fit" for such a MH archive.
Have a look at http://realbasic.zapkerpow.com and see if this is what
you had in mind.  If so, perhaps we could work out a transfer of your
archives and I could get to work setting up a "mh.zapkerpow.com" site.
As long as they're in a standard Unix "mailbox" format, it wouldn't
take too much effort to get something configured.

	- Clint