On Aug 30, 2008, at 11:49 PM, Dennis Brown wrote:
> Hi reinsley,
>
> You have a good suggestion. Once we get the basic list together, if
> someone wants to add a new item it would certainly be appropriate to
> bring it up in this thread for now. That way it could be defined
> right on the spot and then added to the Glossary. I doubt the
> Glossary will be ably to be modified directly by anyone except the
> owner of the post once it goes into the UKB. We would need a Wiki
> type database to be able to do collaborative editing. A master list
> should be available in one place in any case so someone else could use
> it locally for searches in some other context.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> On Aug 30, 2008, at 1:26 PM, reinsley wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello Dennis
>>
>> The glossary is a cornerstone. Great idea !
>>
>> I suggest to keep a place for acronyms.
>>
>> Maybe as a way of doing to add entries, somebody that does not know
>> the meaning of a word or of a functionnality could add the word in
>> the
>> list.
>> Later an advanced user will feel free to add pedagogical
>> explanations.
>> Or many users will fill out the entrie.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>>
>> --- In
amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Dennis Brown <see3d@xxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Keith,
>>>
>>> Here is what I would suggest. We only work on the first 10 items
>>> collaboratively on-line here to start. We need to get good exposure
>>> for this initially to get lots of good ideas from the list.
>>>
>>> I will be happy to keep a text file of all the changes and upload it
>>> to the files section if needed and attach it to the post at each
>>> logical round of changes. Of course anyone can attach a text file
>>> to
>>> the email version of this post which I and anyone who uses the email
>>> option will get.
>>>
>>> Lets leave the formatting out until we get a round of feedback on
>>> that. The first 10 should stimulate ideas for how we should format
>>> the entries to make them most useful.
>>>
>>> Some initial discussion will help solidify the overall specs of the
>>> final format.
>>>
>>> Tuzo and Mike,
>>>
>>> You suggested using Google docs to make a collaborative effort more
>>> efficient. I like the idea if this was an independent project
>>> with a
>>> dedicated team. However, there are some things beyond just the end
>>> result to accomplish here.
>>>
>>> 1. I would like to have this collaborative effort done in full view
>>> of the community and the watchful eye of Tomasz. This is somewhat
>>> of
>>> an experiment and it can serve as a model to inspire future
>>> community
>>> wide collaboration on other projects with a wide benefit. If there
>>> is
>>> awkwardness, let's see if we can work around it, or demonstrate a
>>> need
>>> for additional ways for the community to interact productively. Of
>>> course it would work better in a PHP Forum environment, but lets
>>> work
>>> with what we have now.
>>>
>>> 2. Suggestions should come from anyone. Even if they only want to
>>> participate for just a single entry on the whole project. Having
>>> too
>>> much hidden away (out of site, out of mind) would deprive the
>>> project
>>> of good input.
>>>
>>> 3. EVERYONE will benefit from seeing each and every AFL or general
>>> AmiBroker term defined in front of them again. Think of it as an
>>> opportunity for new and old to review all the things available and
>>> what they are good for.
>>>
>>> I am not the worlds greatest organizer, and I may have a tendency to
>>> have my eye on the moon while seeing how high I can jump. I you
>>> think
>>> I am wrong about this approach (I acknowledge it is a bit awkward)
>>> speak up and let's find a better way. :)
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Dennis
>>>
>>> On Aug 30, 2008, at 12:07 AM, Keith McCombs wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sounds good to me.
>>>>
>>>> However, is there somewhere we could have a document that we could
>>>> all collaborate on without the text getting all garbled up by
>>>> Yahoogroups, adding carriage returns, line feeds, and >? I believe
>>>> there is some way to do this -- just don't know what that way is.
>>>>