[kdewebdev-site] Web Site Development project vision statement

[Eric Laffoon]

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On Sunday 29 February 2004 10:02 pm, Bill Chmura wrote:
> Hello everyone,

Hey everybody it's Bill!
>
> Here is a vision statement that I through together to get us all on the
> same mindset.  Eric has read this and agreed in principle that this is what
> he is also thinking.   I'd like everyone to read it over and if you have
> any questions or comments, direct them back to the list.

I said I agreed in principle. That means "I'd still be writing this and it 
would be much looooonger". Okay, maybe only a few paragraphs, but I'd frame 
it. ;-)
>
> How are we going to attain all of these lofty goals?  That is something we
> are going to come up with over the near future.   I think we have a pretty
> diverse group of people here, and that will benefit us greatly.
>
> I'd like to start this project by having everyone drop an email back to the
> list with a brief blurb about yourself.  I know, I hate this sort of thing
> too, but as a team it will help if we got to know each other a little bit.

Oh, fun! Can I play. (I have to practice being less serious after two 
interviews in as many weeks... Bill you're running Quanta, I'm tired of being 
serious.)
>
> Please include:
>
> * In general your background (ie: programmings, graphics, networking,
> particle physics, etc)

As a child I perfected the unified string theory when I successfully passed a 
string through my neck amazing my friends.
>
> * Location in the real world

God's country, AKA Oregon.
>
> * favorite music and movie (So we have something besides techie stuff)

Movie: Total Recall (added line in the elevator fight scene "give me your 
hands")
Music: The gamut from Debussy to Hendrix, except country and show tunes... 
technically that's not really music... same as kareoke or a train full of 
donkeys crashing into a trainful of pigs. Music with eye candy is fun like 
Maya or Beyonce, but to just listen I like me best. Probably nobody else here 
knew that I started playing bass and guitar 32 years ago, all the guys in my 
high school band went pro and my wife is a former professional musician. I 
used to jam with Neil Schoen's former roomate who lived with him when he 
played with Santana... Haven't played with Santana yet but that would be fun.
>
> * A Cool thing you've done with technology

When I was about 9 years old I was playing with the Heathkit project my folks 
got me that you connected wires to the springs on the circuit board to make 
projects. The big project was a three transistor radio that played into an 
earphone. It had a lot of noise in the signal so I went to my dad's filing 
cabinet, pulled out the schematic to his Harmon Kardon receiver and studied 
it. I noticed the output transistors had a feedback resister and I noted the 
ratios adding this feature to my project. I showed my dad who was totally 
blown away that his son could figure out how to improve the bias on a 
transistor like that.

I think I've regressed though. I'm considering building a petaflop system with 
vacuum tubes. ;-)
>
> I'll send mine out to start things off and give an example

Hey, I did my bad example. My work here is done. ;-)

>
> Regards,
>
> Bill

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Eric Laffoon - Quanta+ Team Leader 
http://kdewebdev.org  eric at kdewebdev.org
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