Collaborative design project proposal

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "Batz Goodfortune" <batzman at all-electric.com>
Subject: Re: Collaborative design project proposal
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 13:54:27 +1000

> Y-ellow Rob
> 
> At 08:47 PM 02/12/00 -0500, Rob wrote:
> >I guess the thing that is truly unique is that synth apps seem to really
> >push the limits of what can be done with the cheapest and most primitive of
> >components, and it would be VERY valuable to have a cdrom just so that ppl
> >wouldnt ask the same question twice, esp considering AFAIK we dont have a
> >searchable mail archive.
> >
> >It would DEFINITELY increase the signal to noise ratio on the list, and me
> >feeling like an idiot after trolling through huge volumes of mail archive
> >info and STILL not finding what I want, only to find out I was in the wrong
> >years archives.
> 
> Zactly. :) that seemed to me to be the one thing that EN has over our
> modern interactive and relatively real time nature. A lot of interesting
> stuff goes through here so fast that one day you might need it. Then, even
> if you remembered that someone was talking about it on the list, you have
> to  try and find it.

However, there IS a downside to that, if you "lower the signal to noise" eg.
lower the amount of "uneccessary" emails to the list, you would not get as
many triggers for the gurus to ponder over and actually meditate over some
schematic detail and make interesting judgements and comment that on the list.
There is also some interesting aspects that relates to the interaction between
people. This is not to say that we should not collect and distribute knowledge.

One thing we maybe should do is to set up some pages and then try to complement
these with info as we pass over diffrent subjects. We do discuss alot of
interesting stuff, and summarizing that would be interesting as such.

Cheers,
Magnus