All, The Citizendium project now has a Technical Focus Group. They are (in alphabetical order) Peter Hitchmough, Greg Mullane, and Jason Potkanski. Between them they have plenty of professional experience and training in system administration, networking, database management, software engineering, and of course with MediaWiki. These are the guys who will have "root access" and who will be driving the technical development of the Citizendium, at least until a more formally-selected group comes into being. (That is, like all of with positions of responsibility in this project, including myself (!), these positions are "interim" or "acting.") Whether this focus group needs to have another one or two people in it is something I'll continue to think about with these fellows.
Peter's in the U.K. and Greg and Jason are in the U.S. (Eastern and Central time zones, respectively). Each of these gentlemen brings some special strengths to the table, and we're pretty lucky to be able call on them. In fact, the fact that we are able to get volunteers of this caliber speaks well of the basic idea behind the project. Their first big task will be to set up the servers, database, software, etc., that will be used by the pilot project. Before that, though, the hosting company has got to set up our server (we need only one for the pilot project; confirmation and a signed agreement, which I expect, should arrive tomorrow. You can track, and of course participate in, discussions of our technical development in three places: * citizendium-tools: https://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/citizendium-tools/ * The relevant threads in the CZ forums: http://textop.org/smf/index.php?board=16.0 * The CZ wiki planning pages: http://www.textop.org/wiki/index.php?title=Citizendium#Technical_Specificati ons --Larry _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
