it is called a big project for a reason
The general idea is that yes I believe that a group of 100+ coders spending 1 to 2 hrs a day could build something of that scale in a few months. I want to explain that I would probably be spending 6 – 12 hrs a day on it until it was pretty well formed and built up. The idea was for interested people to get together and then we would have a design session and decided just what we wanted to try and achieve.
I am not trying to build a crew to lord over. I am trying to build a team of equals.
The best and the brightest being team leaders and having the final say on what happens to a specific projects (section of the site), and the DBA’s working with the Project Manager’s (team leaders) to setup the database/xml structure. Then the team leader will take what was talked about in the design session and what he and the DBA worked up and make a flow chart/design spec and go to a project management web and look at who is available to devote some time and what they are able to do and break the project into sections very small sections like one handles insert, another update, and another delete pages and forms. That way no one person has more than a few hrs of work at a time. The Project manager after finding his people sends them the flow control and the list of the people they are working with, then the programmers can either make an estimate on time or decline the project.
Finally once the site is built up, and everything is working users will be able to write and submit article, tutorials and code. Each user will have an admin web for their submission and other users will be able to rate and/or bad mouth that users stuff. Basically after the initial construction phase I am hoping that people will like what we have made and want to build it up.
I myself have around 600mb of code that I am going to go through and upload and I hope that every body else will have some things to submit. Finally I hope that one day maybe the site will become big enough that those who started it will start to earn some money and we will all be happy and proud of what we did and our resumes will look all that much better.
project managers and dbas
as i said before these 2 groups of people will doing allot of work and i have a few people in mind for that if i can track them down. I wouldn't ask anyone who wasn't a close friend to undertake that kind of work for free.
I guess I am going to have to be a DBA/Project Manager though I didn't really want to be, because I wanted this to be about the users not about what I want.....