[sdiy] Re: List of useful DIY web resources (was: A book about analogue synthesizer circuits?)

[Scott Gravenhorst]

This is what I was describing (I think) and it would be augmented by a reminder post to the
list at regular intervals (twice a month I think would be good).  We have new people coming
on the list all the time and there's a large community of lurkers, all of whom would benefit
(as well as half-brain-deads like me) by knowing where this is.

Although I believe that the book idea is an excellent one, it is also a large project and
possibly one that only Sisyphus might appreciate.  At the very least, I see it taking a long
time to put together.  In the meantime, this approach would be a way to better take
advantage of all the fine documentation work which has already been done by so many here.  I
have a feeling that there are already FAQs embedded in the SDIY sites we already have.  If
it's done as a single (or limited to a small number of) HTML page, then any browser can be
used to search it's contents without the need of a search engine.  The regular posting could
then be very short, including only the URLs of the sites that support the "table of
contents" and brief unsubscribe instructions.  If we're talking about 200K or less data, I
would be happy to host a copy of it on my site.

buchi at takeonetech.de wrote:
>Hi Scott, Hi List,
>
>>..  I would be happy enough to see even a small
>>site that contains a major FAQ and an _up_to_date_ list of site URLs of SDIY
>>members.  Even this would require management, a person who can be counted on to
>>update the site list and FAQ.  I believe that to be effective, the URL to this
>>site would have to be posted to SDIY on a regular basis both as a service to
>>new subscribers and as a reminder to old farts like me with memory problems.  I
>>would volunteer to handle a monthly (or whatever) FAQ posting, since I have
>>equipment here that is up and online 24x7 and I could script this up in a
>>jiffy, I could also manage the posted FAQ itself.
>
>
>I have thought about making a web page (searchable, of course) with links and short
>descriptions of useful SDIY resources, possibly in several categories (Data sheets,
>schematics, DIYer home pages, theory, good parts suppliers etc.)
>Everyone shall be able to add links; and some Editor(s) shall be able to delete or
>modify contents. Also, the person who contributed an entry will also have the right
>to change or remove that link.
>
>The page could be hosted at my site, but i would like to have some mirrors (just in
>case that i get run over by a truck...)
>
>Do you all think that this would be a good idea ?  I know that some of us have pages
>with link lists and do not want to annoy anybody with this. But i 
>think that such a central place would be a good addition to that; 
>especially if new links can be added from everyone. -Michael 

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