Re: Archives and Web Site

[Malonowa <malonowa@wanadoo.fr>]

Robert Hopcroft wrote:

> Roman asked:
>
> > You still haven't told me what your background is Bob.
>
> Sorry, I thought people would look in the archives. Anyway a student of many
> subjects. A library of 1500 books. Thus my interest in seul-edu. Designer, builder,
> programmer of mainframes for 25 years (large analysis programs) and follower of
> Galilean Electrodynamics a publication that discusses challenges to accepted
> orthodoxy in physics especially relativity.

I would've thought relativity was well challenged these days. I think the general
feeling is that relativity  is right to some extent but there's more to it all -
quantum. But I'm no expert I just have a friend who works in research in particle
accelerators - fascinating conversation - physics is just magical sometimes.

> Speaking of archives, They are like
> black holes. What falls in is not likely to be seen again. Thus my efforts to get
> valuable information onto the web site. At the moment I am trying to deal with the
> offer from Vincent Konieczek to see about writting "Developer's Tools" if seul-edu
> would furnish him with a description of what tools they would like. So here I am
> trying to do something I don't know much about. In
> http://www.seul.org/archives/seul/edu/Jun-1999/msg00135.html, I listed the
> references to what I could find in the archives. Also I just got a note from Wil
> that he will put up the prospective project but he wants me to do the HTML.
> Something else I don't know much about. Basically my thought was to have a simple
> template into which I could just edit the text. I guess Doug said something about
> just putting out the text. At this point I just have the URLs to the discussions
> listed at the above URL. I just thought I would ask again if anyone has any request
> for a developer's tool for educational software (for example a Visual Basic
> workalike).
>
> Bob

 Bob - we can help with the HTML no probs - give us the text and an idea of what you
might like it to look like.

As for developers tools - I'll be working on a TCL/TK interpreter with extensions for
sound/video etc. If he could help with that then I could get my apps. written in record
time.

We need developer's pages anyway with plenty of stuff like this. We need to help the
programmers help us - the info. and tools out there are many and varied but it's hard
to find them. The docs are really useless to newcomers.

What we need more than anything is good video playback. Even if it's just one codec
then fine but as long as it does it well. Xanim would be useless for edsoft - too slow,
too many bugs. What else is there?


Roman.