From tismer@tismer.com Tue May 20 19:36:34 1997 From: tismer@tismer.com (Christian Tismer) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 20:36:34 +0200 Subject: [PYTHON META-SIG] Python * STARSHIP * ready to take off Message-ID: <3381ED1B.11E2@tismer.com> There is a very new project which has just started. It is a gift for Python and it users from my company. After its announcement on python-de on Sunday night, Starship gets new members daily. Something to be shown is there already: http://starship.skyport.net/crew/lemburg/ http://starship.skyport.net/crew/hinsen/ http://starship.skyport.net/crew/ajung/ We have just installed a POO server, and there is a lot more to come. I wish to thank Konrad Hinsen for his great translation of the introduction. It is much better than my original. Enjoy! _________________________________________________________________________ The S T A R S H I P Project _________________________________________________________________________ Starship is a new machine on the internet, fully dedicated to Python. It is intended to be an extension to python.org and let us do everything that we can't do with python.org. Starship is meant to be something very special: a community effort of all Python users. It's aim is to promote the language and show all Python applications that can run on a Linux box hooked up to the internet. It wants to boost not only the language, but also the PSA. And it should become an attractive demonstration piece on the Internet to be visited by many. A little FAQ: What does it cost? Nothing at all, just like Python. The only catch is that we will accept only PSA members. For me it costs a lot of effort, of which I hope to pass on a bit. Who can participate? In principle any PSA member. After long consideration we have chosen PSA membership as a criterium for eligibility. Someone who can convince himself to join the PSA (and pay the small membership fee) is probably the kind of person we want. Is Starship related to CNRI? Not at all. Starship is independent, my idea and my machine. We are in no way related to CNRI and are therefore not subject to their rules. The relation is one-directional: we just happen to admit only PSA members. What do I gain? You get a user account on Starship, your own directories, whatever you want. You can create your own Web pages, show your programs, and use others' programs directly. You decide what you want to make public and what not. How big is the effort? You decide for yourself. Since you are a PSA member, you are certainly willing to help others when they have problems. Starship is our common project, and everyone will contribute according to his abilities. I might sometimes ask for help with installation problems, and someone will certainly be willing to help. What does Guido say? Guido, Ken, Aaron, Tim, Mark PyWin, to name but a few, are enthusiastic about the idea and support it. Ken is especially looking forward to new PSA members. Guido won't have time to participate; he'll say hello from time to time but let us go on otherwise. Why do you do it? There are many reasons. Most of all I want to do something for Python. I believe that it can help us to construct an attractive site that will offer perhaps some interactive services to visitors, be in constant flux, and always try the latest and greatest before it goes to python.org. And I would like to encourage the Python community to better collaboration and more direct communication. No downloading, no installation problems, everything is just there, installed by the author, ready for testing. End of FAQ. Starhips's Organization ----------------------- I may have chosen a "starship" for fun, but it's my idea to organise it in a similar way. How far this will be carried graphically is up to you. There's the bridge, where finished stuff will be shown for demonstration. The crew has its cabins (home directories), where they can do as they please. Everyone can install himself as he sees fit. There will be a central library for mature and tested software that is accessible to all. In addition everyone can make some of his own domains accessible to others, for testing new modules, or for special projects. Projects are the "missions" of the starship. Anyone can initiate a project, and there are no restrictions. You can even make money with a project which is shared among the participants. The name "starship" is not accidental: it is also meant to be a bit of a "ship of stars". So come on and get on board, you'll become stars in no time at all... =========================================================================== Right now I'm fixing starship's roof. I hope you will find something more than bare folders under http://starship.skyport.net in an hour or so. Looking forward to see you soon on starship Christian Tismer (Applied Biometrics) _______________ META-SIG - SIG on Python.Org SIGs and Mailing Lists send messages to: meta-sig@python.org administrivia to: meta-sig-request@python.org _______________ From tismer@tismer.com Tue May 20 19:36:34 1997 From: tismer@tismer.com (Christian Tismer) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 20:36:34 +0200 Subject: [PYTHON META-SIG] Python * STARSHIP * ready to take off Message-ID: <3381ED1B.11E2@tismer.com> There is a very new project which has just started. It is a gift for Python and it users from my company. After its announcement on python-de on Sunday night, Starship gets new members daily. Something to be shown is there already: http://starship.skyport.net/crew/lemburg/ http://starship.skyport.net/crew/hinsen/ http://starship.skyport.net/crew/ajung/ We have just installed a POO server, and there is a lot more to come. I wish to thank Konrad Hinsen for his great translation of the introduction. It is much better than my original. Enjoy! _________________________________________________________________________ The S T A R S H I P Project _________________________________________________________________________ Starship is a new machine on the internet, fully dedicated to Python. It is intended to be an extension to python.org and let us do everything that we can't do with python.org. Starship is meant to be something very special: a community effort of all Python users. It's aim is to promote the language and show all Python applications that can run on a Linux box hooked up to the internet. It wants to boost not only the language, but also the PSA. And it should become an attractive demonstration piece on the Internet to be visited by many. A little FAQ: What does it cost? Nothing at all, just like Python. The only catch is that we will accept only PSA members. For me it costs a lot of effort, of which I hope to pass on a bit. Who can participate? In principle any PSA member. After long consideration we have chosen PSA membership as a criterium for eligibility. Someone who can convince himself to join the PSA (and pay the small membership fee) is probably the kind of person we want. Is Starship related to CNRI? Not at all. Starship is independent, my idea and my machine. We are in no way related to CNRI and are therefore not subject to their rules. The relation is one-directional: we just happen to admit only PSA members. What do I gain? You get a user account on Starship, your own directories, whatever you want. You can create your own Web pages, show your programs, and use others' programs directly. You decide what you want to make public and what not. How big is the effort? You decide for yourself. Since you are a PSA member, you are certainly willing to help others when they have problems. Starship is our common project, and everyone will contribute according to his abilities. I might sometimes ask for help with installation problems, and someone will certainly be willing to help. What does Guido say? Guido, Ken, Aaron, Tim, Mark PyWin, to name but a few, are enthusiastic about the idea and support it. Ken is especially looking forward to new PSA members. Guido won't have time to participate; he'll say hello from time to time but let us go on otherwise. Why do you do it? There are many reasons. Most of all I want to do something for Python. I believe that it can help us to construct an attractive site that will offer perhaps some interactive services to visitors, be in constant flux, and always try the latest and greatest before it goes to python.org. And I would like to encourage the Python community to better collaboration and more direct communication. No downloading, no installation problems, everything is just there, installed by the author, ready for testing. End of FAQ. Starhips's Organization ----------------------- I may have chosen a "starship" for fun, but it's my idea to organise it in a similar way. How far this will be carried graphically is up to you. There's the bridge, where finished stuff will be shown for demonstration. The crew has its cabins (home directories), where they can do as they please. Everyone can install himself as he sees fit. There will be a central library for mature and tested software that is accessible to all. In addition everyone can make some of his own domains accessible to others, for testing new modules, or for special projects. Projects are the "missions" of the starship. Anyone can initiate a project, and there are no restrictions. You can even make money with a project which is shared among the participants. The name "starship" is not accidental: it is also meant to be a bit of a "ship of stars". So come on and get on board, you'll become stars in no time at all... =========================================================================== Right now I'm fixing starship's roof. I hope you will find something more than bare folders under http://starship.skyport.net in an hour or so. Looking forward to see you soon on starship Christian Tismer (Applied Biometrics) _______________ META-SIG - SIG on Python.Org SIGs and Mailing Lists send messages to: meta-sig@python.org administrivia to: meta-sig-request@python.org _______________