SED for future generations, or just a place to find post details

One could even auto generate a book from the SED posting, keeping in mind that not all on the internet is true...

I always thought that a group design project would be fun.

considerable effort in textbooks, apart from the too many OT posts

d pictures for example Dropbox disappears when the user removes them

stored for all people to access to make it more effective and searchable?

t there would need to be an image several other places

products with all the combined knowledge, but agreements on the route woul d be tough ?

Presumably if served by many servers it would be more robust? I've learnt a great deal from here over the years. I'm not sure how engaging a full arch ive would be. I save selected explanatory comments & they're very education al.

NT

I've wondered about that. Copyright is the issue. I guess in any collection not everything is true, but that's true of books as well.

NT

Agent (newsreader) makes that trivial, "Save Messages as...", and I file them away in directories by topic... PDF any relevant linked drawings/schematics so I'm not hobbled by links that go away.

The trickiest part would be indexing the topics to make them searchable.

We're all narcissistic prima donna's... how would that work ?>:-} ...Jim Thompson

Yes. I bet it would be chaos though! People here have such different takes on / approaches to things. You know what they say about desgn by committee.

Actually I think we have tried this to an extent on a miniscule project I mentioned, a gravity powered light.

NT

I just keep them in folders/directories, it's good enough for me to find things. Some are stored twice in different places, since it's mostly text the resulting overhead is trivial.

Heh. Everyone could pitch in ideas, each person could run with what they wanted, and whoever, if anyone, made the goods, probably each would pick different ideas to work with.

Would need to start with some sort of agreement on usability of ideas.

And of course consider what to design. It has to be something many could contribute to.

NT

W products with all the combined knowledge, but agreements on the route wou ld be tough ?

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I once was chief cook and bottle washer at Contract Manufacturer after bein g Eng Mgr. From hind-sight the owners wanted to promote custom designs for customer requirements not just build them, so they sell the company for $1B to Solectron.

So they gave me the position as Design Services Mgr with a department of 1 . So I got a few contracts and then started a virtual engineering organizat ion using all the employees from dozens of plants owned by C-MAC at one tim e. I was told I could use any resources available who wanted to contribute. My favorite one just used a few here and there because it was easier to k eep it small. In the end I was awarded the 1st outside deign contract from Lucent and I promised a prototype in 8 wks and deliver with custom 1U sheet metal, PCB, Origami folded 50 wire ribbon cables (that was fun) and stack jacks 1 week early. It was a 180W 16 port , 1U high PoE box for their T1 ph ones. with orders for 10k/yr. I learnt the value of delegation of sheet met al detail design by metal-benders and PCB layout by our Test Engineer and P roject Mgr to do daily bridge phone calls and take notes and action items.

considerable effort in textbooks, apart from the too many OT posts.

My unwritten rule to myself, is I need to start a few on topic threads before an off topic one. If we all did that......

d pictures for example Dropbox disappears when the user removes them

stored for all people to access to make it more effective and searchable?

I'll sometimes save posts, but more often print out the interesting circuit fragments and stick them in the back of my notebook.

t there would need to be an image several other places.

That sounds nice, but a lot of work... saving and indexing the links that go with the post.

My favorite thing about SED is it is an intelligent audience. Which is enough to make me think about my question as I'm asking.

George h.

products with all the combined knowledge, but agreements on the route woul d be tough ?

And here I thought this place was just Facebook for elderly nerds!

considerable effort in textbooks, apart from the too many OT posts

d pictures for example Dropbox disappears when the user removes them

stored for all people to access to make it more effective and searchable?

t there would need to be an image several other places

products with all the combined knowledge, but agreements on the route woul d be tough ?

Obsolete technology and methodology most of it...

Elderly nerds are about the only people still designing real electronics!

Take a look at: It's not exactly what you're suggesting, but it has the same purpose. I use it often because it certain articles of interest and eliminates the clutter (such as this message).

Mmmm... Is alt.binaries.schematic.electronic a useful platform for that (drawings, pictures as attachments to text)?