[AG-TECH] Access Grid Documentation Project

Allan Kenneth Spale aspale1 at uic.edu
Wed Feb 7 16:45:21 CST 2001


I do not know how personally to help with this project but do include me
and EVL on any future mailing lists.

One suggestion for making things searchable: we need some sort of indexing
structure.  I mailed some of EVL's AG docs to Jennifer.  The more natural
language the index is, the more easily searchable the index will be (in my
opinion).  This would be especially helpful for past ag-tech postings.


Allan Spale
EVL / UIC node-op

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Jennifer Teig von Hoffman wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Those of you who attended the AG Technical Retreat last week are already
> somewhat familiar with the plans for the Access Grid Documentation
> Project (AGDP), an effort based in very large part on the Linux
> Documentation Project (LDP), which can be found at 
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/ .
> 
> The AGDP's goal is to provide the canonical set of AG documentation, and
> to distribute it freely under a GPL-like license. (For more background on
> the AGDP, please see http://scv.bu.edu/~jtvh/talks/agdp.ppt .)
> 
> The AGDP, by its very nature, is a community effort. Please take a look
> at the list of tasks below, and let me know which you are interested in
> helping with:
> 
> * Reviewing the AGDP Manifesto. Feedback is due by February 15; I'd like
> to firm up the beta version of this by March 1. The current draft of the
> Manifesto is at http://scv.bu.edu/~jtvh/talks/agdp-manifesto-draft1.doc .
> 
> * Helping to determine which (if any) document formats to require for
> submission to the AGDP and for revisions to AGDP documents, as well as
> in which document formats we should publish on-line. (Just to give you a
> taste of this, the biggest issue at the moment seems to be whether we
> should store (but not publish) our documents in SGML -- an open-source,
> flexible, but less than ubiquitous format -- or something more ubiquitous
> but perhaps not open-source.) I'd especially appreciate it if those with
> SGML experience could participate in this process.
> 
> * Serving on the team of reviewers which will determine whether submitted
> documents are appropriate for posting on the AGDP. (We will not begin
> accepting submissions until April 1.)
> 
> * Helping to provide day-to-day management and support to the AGDP. Tasks
> for this group will most likely include document conversions, tracking of
> the review process, and web site maintainence.
> 
> * Sending me suggestions for inclusion on a document wish list (ie,
> documents we hope somebody, somewhere will write and submit to the AGDP).
> 
> All volunteers will be added to the agdp-discuss-l at bu.edu mailing list
> (ultimately this list should probably be located at accessgrid.org). If
> you'd like to help out with the AGDP and aren't sure how yet, please let
> me know and I'll add you to the list too.
> 
> Any and all help will be very much appreciated.
> 
> Yours,
> Jennifer Teig von Hoffman
> Senior Analyst/Consultant
> Office of Information Technology
> Boston University
> 111 Cummington Street
> Boston, MA 02215
> (617) 358-0033 phone
> (617) 353-6260 fax
> jtvh at bu.edu
> 
> 




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