Aha! Is this the archives question coming up again?

I hope so....If noone is working on this, I'm ready and willing to work
on it but will need some technical ( ie website/search engine )help,
'cos I'm hopeless that way.

I think the biggest problem is sifting through the archives for the
useful articles/info/links. As Stan W pointed out a few weeks ( months?)
ago, this is a huge job because the Archives are so big. 

But there are quite a few of us on the list, and it doesn't all have to
be done immediately. 

My intent here is to get the ball rolling, so here is a proposal:

I will happily act as collator for technical articles/messages links
that listees have found particularly useful. Send me your favorite
link/article number from the archives etc, and I'll group them by
Bentley repair group. The we can see which areas are under represented
and start doing very specific archive searches for them...

I'll need  someone who can take this fairly raw information, and put it
together on a searchable website for us all to use.

My intent here is to get the ball rolling.... if it isn't already! I
don't want to be the arbiter of what goes into a technical site: I don't
know enough for that. But I can rely on listees experience when they
forward info for a technical site.

There, feeling a bit nervous about this ( it is after all a fairly
ambitious undertaking), I'll send this out. 

Please remember this is just a proposal right now- and maybe not a fully
thought out one at that. Comments on the idea? Offers of website help?
Better or more functional ideas? I won't take offence at any of these...

And of course, apologies if this has all been done before/ is in
process, and I just don't know about it...

Shawn...thanks for raising the issue again, it's been rattling around in
the back of my mind for a while..

Bill M
82 GL

 
-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Luft [mailto:Shawn.Luft@COMPLETIONS.BOMBARDIER.COM] 
Sent: September 3, 2003 8:15 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Vanagon Library

When are we going to make a Vanagon Technical Library?  It could very
much resemble what's been done at type2.com for the older buses.

Is someone working on this?

- Shawn