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Old Oct 26, 2003 | 02:45 PM
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Maxima.org needs your help

We are trying to make Maxima.org a better place. We will try to provide something in return for your time and help. So, we need your help with the following:


1. We are looking for good graphic designers to help design a new logo and t-shirt/merchandise designs. If you haven't looked at our store, it's kinda plain. We want to add a little pizazz and spice to our merchandise so that more people would be interested in them.

2. Dedicated .orger's who are willing to compile a FAQ. This requires countless hours of your beloved time sifting through all of the information. Of course, you will get recognition for doing this.

If anyone is willing to help Maxima.org out, please email me at jane@maxima.org .

Thank you!
Old Oct 26, 2003 | 03:29 PM
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just give more choices of colors of the stuff like and have the logo bigger...

green,blue,red,black,yellow,tan, like our cars come in different colors...
Old Oct 26, 2003 | 03:52 PM
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What kind of FAQ do we need?
Old Oct 26, 2003 | 04:15 PM
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A very very good one.

One that will eliminate all of the whining that is done about the FAQ and search.

Basically, like how the 4th gen is set up, but better and we need it to be like this: https://maxima.org/shoptalk/index.shtml , so that everything is organized and easy to find.
Old Oct 26, 2003 | 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Jane97SE
A very very good one.

One that will eliminate all of the whining that is done about the FAQ and search.

Basically, like how the 4th gen is set up, but better and we need it to be like this: https://maxima.org/shoptalk/index.shtml , so that everything is organized and easy to find.
PM SXN or Kevlo99. These guys have provided an awesome how to section for the 4th gen forum. Ask them how they compiled so much info.
Old Oct 26, 2003 | 04:53 PM
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Old Oct 29, 2003 | 09:39 PM
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1st and last bump. If no one is willing to help, I don't want to see any *****ing and moaning.
Old Oct 29, 2003 | 09:45 PM
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What do you want the designs to look like. Guidelines?
Old Oct 29, 2003 | 09:45 PM
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I guess I can do the FAQ. Basically you just want all the stuff from the current FAQ to be organized in the manner of the SHOPTALK link you provided???
Old Oct 29, 2003 | 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Jane97SE
1st and last bump. If no one is willing to help, I don't want to see any *****ing and moaning.

Jane either PM or email me with what you want or an idea of what you want and we can go from there.

And I'll even try to add something to it.
Old Oct 29, 2003 | 11:24 PM
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I like the FAQ the way they are now, Just organise them a little more like you said, and make sure NooB's read them, make it a requirement or something. But what I would like to see change is the Avatar Option, How come Honda Forums can have theres on, It would add more pisezaz wont it?
Old Oct 29, 2003 | 11:26 PM
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Jane, I PM'ed yesterday IIRC, offering help and some ideas. Did you get the PM?
Old Oct 29, 2003 | 11:54 PM
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Why not make the FAQs a distributed effort like how I did the mods on: http://maxmods.dyndns.org/ I have over 120 pages of information contributed by many people from all over the web.

On a wiki, pages are editable and created by anyone, but with IP numbers of the authors listed right in the RecentChanges and page information to prevent malicious behavior. And just in case of some malicious behavior, every page can be easily rolled back to it's previous versions, and generally gets done as soon as someone sees the bad change in the RecentChanges

It would take one person forever to write this in static html, and they would get lazy and it would become unmaintained eventually. Also, wikis are very easy to edit, just edit any page on mine to see the markup syntax. Even a 10 year old could figure out how to add more content. Why not put every single person's knowledge on the .org together in a collaborative wiki? Just imagine, if every person on the .org wrote one question or answer, you'd have a very big FAQ in a very small amount of time.

Whole multilingual encyclopedias with almost 170,000 articles have been written this way: http://www.wikipedia.org/

Just theme up a wiki and you're good to go. I'd personally recommend the 1.3 series of phpwiki http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/ for it's features. I'm currently running the 1.2 series out of a simple dbm database on a P90 32MB 256k uplink with no problems or load issues (then again I have no graphics or complex html to serve up).
Old Oct 30, 2003 | 12:04 AM
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Jane i would love to help, but i wouldnt know how to help yall. If you wanna instruct me to do something, id be willing to donate my time.
Old Oct 30, 2003 | 01:26 AM
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Originally Posted by chinaonnitrous1
Jane i would love to help, but i wouldnt know how to help yall. If you wanna instruct me to do something, id be willing to donate my time.
I can help. Also about logo's and what not I know he's expensive but It would only be once How about carl Creatix from cartoon cars draw up a 4th and 5th gen maxima and put maxima.org on it and make a t-shirt. Y2kevse know who I am talking about he drew kev's car.
Old Oct 30, 2003 | 04:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Jane97SE
1st and last bump. If no one is willing to help, I don't want to see any *****ing and moaning.

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