When you are ready, I would annouce the project to as many Lisp sites as possible - try and make some of the 183 come to you.
Cheers Brad On 1/18/06, C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, here's where matters stand as of now: > > I changed the name from Liberate dpANS3 to Project FreeSpec, since > that's really what we're after anyway and "liberate" can have some odd > meanings nowadays... Anyway not a big deal, the existing list is > called libre-dpans3 which works fine. I updated all the links to here: > http://wiki.alu.org/Project_FreeSpec If I decide to get REALLY > stubborn about the idea of a freely available spec I guess I could > start with the ISLISP spec, which is unambiguously free (and way > smaller than Common Lisp). > > On a more concrete note, I now have what I believe is a complete > summary from the dpANS3 credits of the people, companies, and > organizations involved. The only thing I didn't go through was the > Edit history, which is presumably a little more detail about who did > what. It can and should be checked, but sometime other than late at > night. ;-) I suspect everybody is on the list. > > Now the bad news - the list has 183 entries. I suppose one might argue > that's a good sign in terms of coverage, since we know it took a lot of > people to bring off the ANSI effort, but that's a LOT of email :-/. > Some of the contacts are fairly straightforward, at least in terms of > where to start, but some of the individuals could be fairly difficult > to track down. (Twelve years will do that...) If anybody is feeling > energetic they can check to see if someone they know has content in > dpANS3 and got left off the list, but I think the major players (and > probably a lot of the minor ones) are here. > > I also posted a first pass at a draft letter. Rough draft only! I > don't know where to send it in any case yet, but I suppose its time to > start working on it. > > That brings me to the issue of who should send the emails. I know I > should really, since this whole circus is championed by me, but I'm > afraid many of the individuals (and probably some of the companies) > will ignore me as an unknown who is not serious. How can we maximize > the chances that we will gain enough attention to get the responses we > need? I would appreciate input on this point. > > Anyway, the project isn't dead yet ;-). > > Cheers, > CY > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Gardeners mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners > _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
