Re: For all Pupman Readers! Geek Group FAQ System

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Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>


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>Original poster: "Finn Hammer by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
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> > Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz 
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> > It is my hope to create the Ultimate Tesla Coil FAQ, and to do it through a
> > mixture of submitted entries, and culling from the Pupman list and 
> archives.
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>This is a good initiative, noble Chris, and one that has been talked a
>lot about in the past. I should imagine that it would be quite an honour
>to be the author of a subject in that FAQ.

We'll see as it develops, right now it's in it's very early stages. Basicly 
the idea will be to take both newly written (i.e. posts to the FAQ section 
of the forums, or Culled from Pupman), and existing text (i.e. Other 
coiling resources on the web) and edit/augment them into a FAQ format. It's 
hoped that this will become a through, up-to-date resource for the world's 
coilers. And also help us in giving accurate, through answers to the 
hundreds of newbie questions that we get (and bicker over) every week. It's 
not a replacement for answering them here, but telling a newbie to "Searh 
the archives" can be daunting to the newbie. The main focus is safety. This 
will be a way for people to get SAFE info, TESTED info, and Peer Reviewed info.

I'm also including a section for anecdotal stuff, there's a lot of 
interesting stories out there, and some of the old timers out here have 
seen people do a lot of dumb things and get hurt in spectacular ways. Not 
only is it a great way to pass on a lesson and history, but it's an 
interesting read to a lot of us as well.

>I also think that Chip should be given the opportunity to at least
>mirror that faq, since he is sort of the godfather of this gathering.

Anyone is welcome to link to our site, or mirror us provided they make 
arrangements to update their content weekly. Our site gets about 10 
manhours of work on it a day, and updates are constant right now. It's 
changing every day :) For example, at noon today I announced the FAQ 
system, it was up and complete. By 1500hrs we had a completely NEW system 
written from scratch because the old one had a design flaw.



>The peer review you mention, is it an internal Geek Group institution,
>or are there external reviewers attached?

Several, actually. First it arrives in my inbox, I give it a once over then 
it goes public to our membership in the forums. After ~170 people give 
their thoughts, it gets a final edit for grammer and accuracy by a handfull 
of our higher members (guys like Mark Broker, Matt D., Paul Kidwell, Ted 
Rosenberg, Mark Metlicka, Sundog, Terry, etc) anyone who wants to review 
them is welcome to. After final review I have the job of sorting them and 
putting them into the correct FAQ and section.

It's all very public and there are many checks before it goes into the FAQ. 
The main focus is safe and accurate information. There are a LOT of great 
coiling and HV sites out there. There's also a whole lot of garbage and 
misinformation. The purpose of the Group is education. By combining a LARGE 
amount of info into one big site, we create a reference for the whole 
community. It's like a library where we all write the books :)

On top of that, the FAQs are public, not just members only. Everything is 
Open Source and anyone who spots something missing or inaccurate can simply 
email me or the webdev team and it can be fixed straight away.


Also, if you're a Geek-Coiler with your own website and you've got 
information you'd like included in the FAQ please let me know! Some of the 
better sites out there (Like Bert's and Terry's) are a wealth of info and 
we'd really like to include copies of it, giving full credit (and if you 
like, links) to the original source. We're not out to plagerise or steal 
credit from the people that have worked hard to write this info, we're out 
to bring it together into an orginised resource and help share it, giving 
full credit to all. Thanks for the great questions Finn :)


>Cheers, Finn Hammer




Christopher "Duck" Boden Geek#1
President / C.E.O. / Alpha Geek
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