Collaborative web site for engineering development

Mitchell

> I am also putting together the basic web pages for the site. See:
> html://www.InnerTransit.org/designpage.html
> html://www.InnerTransit.org/innertransit.html
> were the layouts. I am the process of converting designpage.html
to
> designdoc.php and creating the server side databases etc to make
it
> work. Massive job.

I wasn't able to see the above pages..they don't seems to exist on
the
server.

Sorry, try
https://www.innertransit.org/designpage.html
https://www.innertransit.org/designpage.html

Have you looked at using a prebuilt service such as Source Forge
(www.sourceforge.net)? It is designed to enable the development of
Open
Source Projects...while it focuses on the development software
people are
using it for documentation based projects. My impression is that
much of the
out put of a terrestrial based O'Neill project will be software
anyways so
it might be an appropriate tool.

I expect SourceForge to be used by development teams. But I am more
worried about the glue that holds
a project together (who, what, where, WHY, when, how).
www.InnerTransit.org will provide a place for the
requirements, the why, tests, and link them all together.
www.InnerTransit.net will provide the
organizational structure. That site is already up.
www.InnerTransit.com will be the spin-off (if any) sales
site. I am expecting to organize this along the Mozilla type software
arrangement instead of the pure GNU
license.

> I have spent a lot of time at my day job creating engineering
processes
> when not doing real engineering work. So I have a concept of how
an
> online engineering site should work and will put that together as
> something to start with.

What issues are those process looking at addressing?

What are the long terms goals (apart from trying to build an
O'Neill)? Is
it public out reach? Is it purely design? Is it software
infrastructure?
Is it to convince the government? Is it to convince the private
sector?

I expect there to be many ongoing projects since everybody is not
going to agree on what is most
important, interesting, or useful. So there may be many divergent
paths/alternatives.

> What is you back ground? What would you like to work on?

I am software developer who presently focuses on the development of
web
based applications on the MS platform.

My servers are running Linux,Apache,MySQL,PHP4.

The inspiration for touching base with you was the discussion a
while back
about building a Bernal Sphere in cyberspace...that seems to me to a
compelling public outreach tool. Other than that I would be keen on
doing
general research.

Cheers

Dave

Hope this helps.
Mitchell James