From: | cmdjackryan@**********.com (Phillip Gawlowski) |
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Subject: | Shdowrun in character newsletter (A Call to Arms) |
Date: | Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:10:39 +0200 |
*Summary*
A semi-regular newsletter (in various formats, if possible), which
provides strictly *in game* news. From sports, to obituaries, the
weather and foreign politics to advertisement and stock quotes, the
coverage should be as through as it can be.
*What's needed*
- Webspace (Jérémie Bouillon and Derek Hyde already volunteered for
this. Kudos, chummers!)
- The publishing tools. I volunteer myself to do that.
- Graphic artists for web layout, "print layout", and / or newsletter
content.
- Editors. The more people are willing to contribute, the better.
- A name. If FanPro would be kind to provide this project with some
"meta"-credibility, that'd be great.
- "Groupware". Anything that helps us to orchestrate the effort would be
great. Mailing lists, a wiki (I could create one at wikidot.com, who
provide a really nice and easy to use wiki), whatever..
*What we can do*
This is more a "What Phillip can do", but that sounds silly as a heading :P
It is relatively trivial to write a Ruby[1] script that combs through a
directory, and outputs a list of links. Likewise it is easy to have a
Ruby script create HTML pages[2] out of a wiki-like syntax[3]
Likewise, a script to generate weather and stock quotes would be easy,
too, even giving different factors a different weight, and alternate
from the last stock quote in a realistic-ish manner.
*Contribute*
Everybody can contribute, so shoot me an email (off list, if you prefer).
Thanks for reading all of this, and thinking about it.
Bibliography:
[0]
http://lists.dumpshock.com/pipermail/shadowrn/Week-of-Mon-20070402/073957.html
[1] http://www.ruby-lang.org/
[2] http://rassmalog.rubyforge.org/output/index.html
[3] http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth/
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Phillip "CynicalRyan" Gawlowski
http://cynicalryan.110mb.com/
Rule of Open-Source Programming #6:
The user is always right unless proven otherwise by the developer.