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- Subject: FreeLore Bulletin No. 3
- Keywords: freelore, FreeLore Project, FreeLore Bulletin
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 16:03:00 GMT
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- FreeLore Bulletin No. 3 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
- 19 January 1993
-
- CONTACT: John Goodwin, Moderator
- Fermilab
- jgoodwin@adcalc.fnal.gov
-
- +1 708 840 8069 (voice)
-
- ---------------------------
-
- Copyright (c) 1993 by The FreeLore Project. You
- may make verbatim copies of this bulletin for
- non-commercial purposes by any means, provided
- this copyright notice appears on all such copies.
-
- ---------------------------
- Articles
-
- **1. FreeLore Project Steering Committee Formed
- **2. How to become a Member of the FreeLore
- Project
- **3. Join a (Virtual) Mailing List
- **4. The FreeLore Whitepaper is Out
- **5. Request for BBS and E-journal Posting
- **6. Getting Documents and Information
-
- ---------------------------
- **1. FREELORE PROJECT STEERING COMMITTEE FORMED
-
- The FreeLore Project has around 30 members with
- many different interests, all focused on our basic
- goal of producing freely redistributable (FR)
- educational materials and the software to use
- them.
-
- The following persons have agreed to be on the
- FreeLore Project steering committee:
-
- John Goodwin, Moderator jgoodwin@adcalc.fnal.gov
- Gary Benson inc@tc.fluke.com
- Richard Kim richard@blazers.tv.tek.com
- Gavin Nicole nick@nsis.cl.nec.co.jp
-
- Each mailing list comprises a working group or
- committee on its topic.
-
- Please consider volunteering for the project by
- joining a mailing list (see article #3 and the
- FreeLore Whitepaper for details).
-
- >>THE FREELORE PROJECT IS IN DESPARATE NEED OF
- A MAIL SERVER. IF YOU CAN DONATE A SERVER AND
- SOME DISK SPACE, EITHER TO DISTRIBUTE OUR
- DOCUMENTS AND SOURCE CODE OR TO STORE CONTRIBUTED
- FREELORE, CONTACT US.
-
- We have a small amount of space (<1 MB) offered on
- an interim basis by:
-
- server@hermes.acm.rpi.edu,
-
- but need a donor for a mail server in the longer term.
-
- ---------------------------
- **2. HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THE FREELORE
- PROJECT
-
- Anyone can write freelore. Write something
- useful, and "copyleft" it by placing a notice like
- the one above on your work. The copyleft notice
- makes your work freely redistributable (FR).
- Anyone can make fair use of it and copy it, but it
- is not in the Public Domain. For more details on
- copylefting, see the FreeLore Whitepaper.
-
- Next, tell us what your document is about, how to
- get it, and what format it is in. We will try to
- track FR documents in a useful way. More than
- anything else, the project needs volunteers who
- write FreeLore.
-
- The FreeLore Project exists to promote the writing
- of FreeLore by:
-
- o Commissioning and tracking FreeLore;
-
- o Providing software to make writing FreeLore
- easy; and
-
- o Promoting the distribution of FreeLore.
-
- To be really useful, the document should be coded
- in a commonly accepted character set like U.S.
- ASCII, ISO 646, or Latin-1. It also needs to be
- marked up with a formatting language like nroff or
- TeX; or better, with a generalized markup language
- like SGML. Learn about SGML and get a Document
- Type Definition suitable for what you are writing.
- Joining the FreeLore Project is a good way to keep
- in touch with new developments in SGML and find
- out about information sources.
-
- To join the FreeLore Project, join a mailing list
- and actively participate. Contact the moderator
- of the mailing list or one of the members of the
- steering committee to get on a list.
-
- Finally, send a few lines (15 lines max.) of 50
- column text for inclusion in the FreeLore Project
- Directory. Include your contact information,
- background, and what you would like to do. Logos,
- pictures, and quotations will be stripped before
- inclusion. Please use only E-mail safe characters
- (no tabs). Your email sig will not be used for
- this information. You must write it up specially
- and tell us that it is for inclusion in the
- directory. If you want us to know about you but
- don't want to be listed in the public version, put
- "do not list" on the line before your entry.
-
- ---------------------------
- **3. JOIN A MAILING LIST
-
- Because the FreeLore Project does not yet have a
- listserver, mailing lists, are being handled by
- hand. Send e-mail to jgoodwin@adcalc.fnal.gov
- to join a mailing-list.
-
- Valid commands:
-
- SUBSCRIBE FL-XWINDOWS
- UNSUBSCRIBE FL-BULLETIN
- GET FL-BULL-1
- GET INDEX, etc.
-
- The human parser is very versitile and also
- understands plain English and a few other
- languages. See article #6 for a list of documents
- available.
-
- Members are automatically added to FL-ANNOUNCE,
- FL-BULLETIN, and FL-INFO. In addition, if you
- mentioned an interest in software, you have been
- added to the FL-SOFTWARE list. You should still
- join a sublist.
-
- One member from each list should consider
- volunteering to handle the list's traffic for that
- group. Initially the Project Moderator will act as
- moderator for all lists. You must subscribe to
- the list in order to post to it. Your initial
- post should be a letter of introduction to the
- group. You will then get a list of subscribers,
- i.e. the moderator will not act as an email
- repeater, although he should receive a copy of all
- letters. Correspondence will not be archived.
-
- WE WILL HAVE A MAIL SERVER AS SOON AS SOMEONE
- DONATES ONE.
-
- FL-ANNOUNCE
-
- The FL-ANNOUNCE list will be for press releases
- and product announcements.
-
- FL-BULLETIN
-
- This list is for members and other
- interested persons who want to keep up with the
- status of the FreeLore Project.
-
- FL-INFO
-
- General information on FreeLore Project
- goals and resources; what is FreeLore; finding and
- ordering FreeLore; Information on related
- projects; what the FreeLore Project is about; how
- can I find FreeLore on the Internet; what's out
- there.
-
- FL-COPYRIGHT
-
- Discussion of copyright issues; moral and
- political issues raised by the project; copyright
- law, software patents; actions of groups like the
- League for Programming Freedom.
-
- FL-AUTHORS
-
- This group is for authors writing FreeLore.
- It will provide guidelines for markup and help
- with our and other's SGML products.
-
- FL-CONNECTIVITY
-
- This is the group that will coordinate the
- distribution of project materials to BBS and
- E-journals. We need contacts for this list to
- "get the word out" about FreeLore.
-
- FL-TEXINFO
-
- Since we cannot wait for the SGML DTDs to be
- fully defined to start creating FreeLore, we are
- using TeX as the interim markup standard with
- Texinfo encouraged for internal project documents
- (same as the GNU project). This group is for
- writers of general interest material--Internet
- FAQs, RFCs, Software Documentation, etc., who need
- information about our use of Texinfo and
- eventually conversion tools to SGML.
-
- FL-SOFTWARE
-
- If you said you wanted to write software, you are
- on this list and one or more of the following
- sublists:
-
- o FL-BROWSER sublist
-
- Join this list to help write the hypertext
- Browser. GNU Info is our interim browser. If you
- want to write the X windows version join
- FL-XWINDOWS as well.
-
- o FL-DTD sublist
-
- These people will write the Texinfo Document
- Type Definition (DTD) and other DTDs as needed.
-
- o FL-EDITOR sublist
-
- This group will write a WYSIWYG editor for
- adding SGML markup to documents.
-
- FL-INFORMAION-RETRIEVAL sublist
-
- Cataloguing all the useful FR information in
- the world is a hopeless task. Eventually we will
- need to provide a software system to decentralize
- this task, so that anyone can maintain and provide
- catalogues of their FR holdings. We'll be lucky
- if we can maintain a list of the libraries.
-
- We need library scientists! This list will
- discuss how to locate and catalogue FreeLore
- material; how to make documents self-cataloguing;
- and how to use FreeLore with WAIS or the World
- Wide Web.
-
- o FL-MULTIMEDIA sublist
-
- The multimedia group will work on
- implementing the Hytime standard in FR software
- and on integrating multimedia and hypertext
- capabilities into the FreeLore Project.
-
- o FL-SMALL-SYSTEMS sublist
-
- This group is for persons concerned with
- porting the project software to small systems, and
- representing the concerns of small system users to
- the FreeLore Project. Can our software be ported
- to MS-DOS PCs, Amigas, or Linux?
-
- o FL-XWINDOWS sublist
-
- This group will discuss X Windows issues.
- If you said you knew X in your request for
- information, you are on this list.
-
- ----------------------------
- **4. THE FREELORE WHITEPAPER IS OUT
-
- The FreeLore Whitepaper describes what freelore
- is, how to make it, and how to join The FreeLore
- Project. This is our manifesto and general information
- source about the project.
-
- ---------------------------
- **5. REQUEST FOR BBS AND E-JOURNAL POSTING
-
- If you have access to a bulletin board, please
- post our materials. E-Journals: please tell your
- readers about FreeLore. Join the FL-CONNECTIVITY
- list so that we can keep track of BBS and
- E-Journals interested in the project.
-
- ---------------------------
- **6. GETTING FREELORE DOCUMENTS
-
- The FreeLore Bulletin is posted to:
-
- comp.txt.sgml
- alt.hypertext
- alt.uu.future
-
- At present the only documents
- available are the Whitepaper
- (enclosed), and back issues of
- the Bulletin and Tracts.
-
- Documents may be requested from
-
- jgoodwin@adcalc.fnal.gov
-