[Search-l] Wikia Press Release on search project

[jer]

> 	OK. I don't think much will happen until some solid resources
> are available, but I assume you're working on that issue.

Ah-ha, the source of some mental disconnect here!  This is entirely  
understandable and will take time to really sort out, but I believe  
it's "community" vs. "search engine".

I'm of and for the former (foster community and OS projects, we're  
all peers), whereas many things tell only of the latter (buy servers  
run software, decisions and priorities), because it's easier to  
understand, but not the case.  Solid resources?  We've got a mailing  
list and a wiki, we're getting some donated hardware for some  
development hosting (cvs/svn, project sites, data repositories, etc),  
and we've got vision and passion, that's solid enough for me to make  
a difference :)

I see our Gnome three-phase plan being
	1. Collect community and open source technology
	2. ?
	3. Profit!

*grin*.  To be fair though, step 2 is really "grow an ecosystem of  
groups running the distributed and interoperable technologies" and 3  
is we all win by having 10,000 search engines, all interoperable at  
multiple layers, and any search box can mash-up as desired.

Jer