On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 02:10:35PM -0000, Peter Cooper wrote: > "Stéphane Payrard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You posted your mini-review to London.pm: > > Thanks for that, that demonstrates my memory! > > > <snip> on virtual machines: "No, there's suprisingly little out > > there on virtual machine design and development." > > This question isn't entirely directed at you, but.. is this something that > people, as a community, would be interested in developing? I tend to like > doing things on my own, but as you'll have seen I've only been studying the > topic for 18 months! ;-) An open approach to developing an online wealth of > knowledge about virtual machines would allow the gurus to share knowledge as > they find the time. I've been involved with Wikipedia lately, and seen how > major collaborative works in the content realm can work (as long as there's > a modicum of structure to keep it all together). > > I personally believe virtual machines are ever increasing in importance in > the realm of computer science, and such a resource may allow more people to > 'migrate' from other disciplines more easily. Of course, this may all be pie > in the sky, but I thought it worthwhile to throw the idea out > there.
I don't think it is wise to multiplicated resources but wiser to squat existing ones. Probably this work can start as part of the existing parrot wiki even if VM is in a sense a subject larger than Parrot: http://www.vendian.org/parrot/wiki/bin/view.cgi/Main/WebHome Or it can be even be part of the regular wikipedia. I have been amazed at the quality of the wikipedia material, some of it contributed by our own Dominus. BTW: I suspect that his fake entry "Goat rectum stuffed with garlic" is good way for him to find his wikipedia homepage with Google. :) I don't feel competent enough to write on the VM subject but would be happy to translate it to make it part of the French wikipedia. -- stef > > Regards, > Peter > >
