Synopsis

[JF Martinez <jfm2@club-internet.fr>]

Here is a synopsis of what is left for Indy's release and of the
people doing it (besides myself).

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Task						!    People
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Hacking the installation (half done)		! None
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Looking at what apps can go to second CD	! None
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Keeeping software up to date, trivial case	! 
(just change version number into the spec	! None
file)						!
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Keeeping software up to date, non trivial case	! None
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Translations both of software descriptions and	!
of some texts seen by the user during install	! None
(latter is mandatory for legal reasons as the	!
texts mention RedHat)				!
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Replace a set of RedHat's icons	(mandatory)	! None
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Investigate software and compare it at what is	!
shipped in Indy since Indy's spirit is not	! None
delivering every program available for Linux 	!
but only the best				!
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Updating the web site both in the politics part	! None
as for pointers or the recruiting form		!
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Give the finishing touch to applications like   !
ensuring they use sensible defaults		! None
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Negociating with mirror sites			! None
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Trying what is already built			! None
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Building the kernel				! None
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Managing, taking care of those who fill the form! None
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PR: ensuring that Indy's goals are widely known ! None
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Everything else					! None
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Indy's goal was not providing an installation whose users would make
users say "ohs" and "ahs'its goal ensuring that the user can ask for
help, that the appliactions cover his needs, that the distrib is
tolerant to user's mistakes or that the distrib is optimal out of the
box without need for user intervention.  In fact Indy's goal was to
take care of the real problems of the Linux user not the glamorous
ones.  Its goal was to take care of those people who would have to use
and administer Linux without having had previous training.  There are
people who object about 'dumbing down' Linux but if we don't dumb it
down, that means Linux only for the educated and (because
opportunities are never equal) Linux for the rich, Microsoftware for
the poor.  Reversed Robin Hood.

But for Indy making progress it is only possible a minimal core of
people.  For a time I have tried to make without that core despite
increasing disheartening.  No longer.

-- 
			Jean Francois Martinez

Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org