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# Welcome to the DISS wiki!
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The current purpose I have in mind for this wiki is simply to outline the project, the issues which we are trying to address with the project, the possible design choices which will address these issues, and the various challenges and caveats with those designs. This should also facilitate feedback on such things.
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## A few comments on myself and the current state of affairs
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I am brand new to github, so I'm still learning to make use of all the tools offered here and welcome guidance and insight on any issues, and for the most part I am not really interested in being the project lead here as I am not experienced in this area. However I do think I have developed quite a vision for this project and that I am capable of playing a leadership role to a degree and will of course do my best until someone else comes along. On that note I'd like to try keep all aspects of this project accessible and workable by others as I have a history of being an unreliably whimsical digital nomad, and I want to see this project come to realization even if I should become scarce.
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I've been tossing this idea out, mostly in #debian and #debian-offtopic on freenode from time to time as issues arose for probably a decade or so now, and never even got any responses one way or another. Recently someone finally took interest and seconded the idea, and annadane and I have taken steps to create and promote the idea to garner more interest. I have been very surprised by the level of response that we've gotten so quickly. Within the first 24 hours after announcing the project and creating a github account, we had half a dozen people in the development channel, a log bot setup, and were already discussing seriously how to make this project a reality. I am proud to say that these pioneers of the project were not just passersby but have stuck around and continued to contribute their thoughts and skills and that we're well on our way to building a development team to redesign the support model for our beloved OS.
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The problems we face right now are many, not the least of which is that my vision and the sorts of things we have all observed as issues with the status quo of our support systems, are not well documented and clearly outlined for interested parties to wrap their heads around what we're trying to do and why. I hope this wiki will address that issue at least. The next in line of our many problems is of course need of hands to do the work. Currently we don't have any regular coders with experience taking on a project of this magnitude. I can code python, but my experience is limited to a handful or so modules, and mostly small tools to automate day-to-day tasks for myself, I have not participated in any large FOSS project before other than dabbling with hedgewars where I mostly wrote a few scripts, contributed some ideas, and created my own clone of their source tree which I mostly broke horribly trying to learn to fix some things that were bugging me. heh. I certainly have never lead a software project before. My co-founder, a confessed reddit addict, has absolutely no programming experience or skill at this point and is learning from scratch. Among the others now hanging out in the development channel, we have a network engineer who mostly writes tools in C and Java, who is also just learning python, and a couple other people with similar limited programming experience. What I am saying is this, we can use the help and guidance of real programmers, especially those familiar with designing web service APIs, trust based systems, GUI, and working on projects with a lot of moving parts, and lofty goals which include integration with many existing systems whose developers and volunteer supporters we want to work with as synergistically as possible without offending them by implying their systems are not effective or inconveniencing them in any way by pushing these changes upon them.
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These changes should come about as more in addition to, but not instead of the existing systems, and should integrate as unobtrusively as can be, as an additional resource unifying our existing resources and making them easier to use, and not interfere with business as usual.
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I should also note that in addition to being an unreliably whimsical digital nomad, I am also rather savage and unconventional, and some might even say a minimalist and a bum. heh. I am using an Orange Pi Lite as my computer, and am online using wifi hotspots. This presents some challenges with even doing stuff like making this wiki. Launching a capable browser to do things like this takes literally 10 minutes or more, and is practically useless for doing much other than heating up the cpu and locking the machine up. As a result I use mostly the lightest applications I can find, which limit my ability to be fooling with this wiki and such on a regular basis. My preferred method of communication is the project's IRC channel. Others are keeping me apprised of responses to the posts on reddit and the debian wiki, but ultimately your best way to get in touch with myself and the others involved with this project is to join the channel, you can do so from the web if need be using [Freenode's Webchat](https://webchat.freenode.net) and joining #diss which I strongly encourage you to do. We've been trying to stay active in there around the clock even despite the fact that we're mostly all from the same timezone. I especially have been altering my sleep schedule, taking naps when I can throughout the day while the others are awake and in the channel, and trying to be around during the early morning (US/EST) hours when they are either just going to bed or just waking up and not active.
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# Thanks!
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I thank you all for your interest and support, and welcome you to join us in this project.
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## Special Thanks to:
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annadane for being the first to show interest in this project and taking the initiative of posting announcements and being dedicated to the mission of this project.
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if'm for not only relinquishing #diss, where he'd been squatting, to the project and for sticking around and making us look like we are greater in number.
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zellkou for taking the initiative of setting up disslogbot and offering server support for our needs at this early phase of the project.
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our other regulars in #diss, sdk, DerLGm, MagicFab for hanging around and giving their input.
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all our stargazers and watchers here on github for taking an iterest.
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and everyone who responded to the posts on reddit and debian wiki, even those who are naysayers and post hijackers, because there is no such thing as bad press, and negative opinions are just as valuable and serve to help identify other issues we will want to address. |
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