[A6] a6 wiki

[Susan Baird]

> Here's where it stands. I've extracted all of the T&T from the 
> archives from Jan. 1, 2001 (where Chad left off) to Jan 1, 2004. They 
> are copied/pasted into a Word document and laid out clearly by date up 
> to Jan. 1, 2004.

Correction. T&T items extracted are from Jan 1, 2001 to June 1, 2004.

What I think is needed is 12 people or more who know the Andromeda and 
whose main language is English, to volunteer to take a month from each 
year, edit the tips from that month and send them to one person who 
will compile them in a pc document (Word). Then, if Joan and Chris set 
up a wiki site, someone, or more than one person, can take the compiled 
items and put them into the existing HTML T&T document. If it is an FAQ 
item it can be sent to me. I believe I have most of those already.

This is definitely doable but I think it requires people to help out 
and someone good to coordinate it. I don't know how many people are on 
this list but surely there are enough that if the work is divided up 
and coordinated, it can get done fairly quickly. As I said, I've 
already done a lot of work on it. It would be a shame to let it go 
because there's a lot of really good information there. Hopefully you 
all won't stay silent thinking that Joan and Chris will handle it. Joan 
has already volunteered for way more than her share and Chris has also 
spent a lot of time with it all. Ken would likely volunteer - he helped 
tremendously with the home page - but he has a new baby and I'm sure 
he's not able to devote the time now. I'm sure Chad would also be 
willing to help. He always does, but he is also extremely busy and 
can't do it all himself. We are very fortunate that he was nice enough 
to do it the first time around or there would be no T&T document at 
all. Robert also helped by reformatting the T&T which I'm sure was no 
small task. As I said, Boele has helped all he could with this current 
version but I know he is slammed and English is not his main language.

> Well hey, tell us more about your luck in being able to do music 
> professionally :) That's a story I'd like to hear, anyway.

Quite honestly, I'd much rather hear people step up and volunteer to 
help pull this together. That's what's really needed here. I asked for 
help once before and Chad was the only person who answered me. This is 
a group document that everyone benefits from and as I said, there's 
lots of REALLY good information - 4 years worth of excellent 
information. I know because I've read every single post for the last 5 
years. Just need some help from you all to finish pulling it all 
together.

My 2 cents anyway.

Sioux