[om-list] Open Source Search Engine

[Luke Call]

Take this with a big grain of salt. After I wrote it out I started 
feeling less confident about it so ignore anything that doesn't sound 
quite right to you!

I think you might start by reading the programming-related writings of 
Eric Raymond, especially the Magic Cauldron, which is about business 
models--you might find it at www.tuxedo.org. There are some companies 
that do seem to have successful business models, names and/or products 
(whichever I can remember) include: sleepycat w/ berkely-db, 
ghostscript(?), jboss, redhat.

I have never heard of one that tries to get people on board, then gets 
them to come up with ideas, then they create a product. The ones I've 
heard of that work start out w/ someone who creates something useful 
enough for others to use, even very simple--then others are interested 
enough enhance it because they use it and want it to work better. To do 
it the other way sounds like more of a venture capital model.....? where 
you hire people.

But maybe not. Ideas can go a long way and all that. :)

Luke.

Thomas and Megan Packer wrote:
> Mark and Other OM people;
> 
>     You might agree that there might be a better name for an open-source
> search engine than SemanticSeek.Com, (which I bought recently), since I
> don't think I want to focus on the semantic aspects of it until after the
> open source aspect of this proposed search engine is proven to be popular or
> unpopular.  Should I buy another domain name, or no?
> 
>     "OpenSeek.org" is available.  Should I necessarily use a .org tld, or
> does it not matter?
> 
>     Also, to generate the most interest possible, it should look like a
> legitimate open source project.  Do you have any organisations you could
> suggest I pattern mine after?  Please explain your "why's" and "why not's".
> 
>         And how would I go about advertising this?  How does one generate a
> lot of support for an open source project?
> 
>     Feel free to visit my new webpages at www.ontolog.com.  It's very rough,
> and very incomplete, but it's there.  It's mainly there to help me,
> personally, right now do things such as keep track of URLs that I use
> frequently.  But eventually it will be a real company web page.
> 
>     So, if any of you have any advice at all about starting an open source
> project in general, and an open search engine in particular, please speak.
> 
>     After I have decided I have found all the easily-findable contributors,
> I will ask them about how to focus efforts, such as concentrating on a
> particular subject area, etc.
> 
>     Danke,
> tomp
> 
> 
> P.S., Mark,
> 
> ...
> 
> two other questions: (1) Saturday night at my house, and (2) my "Web
> Application" problem in VS.NET.
> 
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