PROTEUS UPDATE

For anybody that failed to receive a note via my stupidity here is what it said!:

Greetings & Salutations!

Well everyone, Christmas is nearing and we've assembled a team of about 15 people. Due to most people being unable to commit to until after Christmas & New Years, we will begin shortly thereafter. I will post a finalized list of the team as well as a link to our "staging" site soon. Once everyone is placed where they best fit, we will move forward in teams.

The biggest thing is that we are still lacking php programmers to help out, although we have a few we are looking for strong coders as they will be the backbone of the project.

Anyways, I won't bore you with details until after the Holidays. So if you are one celebrating the upcoming season, "Merry Christmas!", and I will talk to you soon. Again if you have any questions, pelase feel free to drop me a note.

The prelim list for Proteus: AxeField, bmx3ry, d-frag-r, evnhnssn, felixxkatt, grubin, kickintheteeth, kristyvictoria, love-profusion, moab-software, sEveNtoThesEveN, simgfx, twexler, valorfive, whackaxe, zipper

Warmest wishes over this holiday season,
FrogOnTOp, aka Jeff

This project is a combined effort between various programmers, designers, and artists throughout the DA Community. The purpose of it is to combine our varied talents and produce something truly amazing. There have been some preliminary discussions in the "H3lp" chat room (our official meeting place) as to what we could do, and how we could go about it. With that our "idea" was born.

We all know how hard it is to find decent help, whether it be tutorials or web resources. That is why the "H3lp" chat room was founded by Kickintheteeth and Simgfx. It was to become a place where any and all could find help with their various problems. From Photoshop to PHP, and Illustrator to 3D a team was assembled which could offer professional help in these areas. Although our Founders, Operators and Members are very experienced, and we try to help as much as possible, there is often need to refer to people to tutorials and resources around the web. Hence our "Idea" was born.

Although there are numerous tutorial sites around the web, there is no clean clear cut way of finding them, hence we are planning to build a complete online help system, that will not only feature it's own community, but a current list and representation of the tutorials located in the far corners of the web. Although we will host our own tutorials, our goal is to categorize and index all of the wealth and knowledge that is out there, into an interactive and easy to use system. The web portion will be powered by a powerful backend database, that will "verify" it's tutorials so that you do not continue to get "404 Page Not found". It will be organized, fast and extremely useful. We are currently brainstorming to come up with all of the included features of this project, but I can tell you that we also hope to integrate a standalone program that will plugin directly to this database, so that you are merely one click away from finding your solutions.

Although this may seem like a daunting task, we are confident that the people of the DA community can combine their various talents and help us achieve a goal that will essentially benefit, well "everyone"

Of course we are looking for help with this project, and if you are interested and able to commit (very important) please list your name and talents in the comments section below or drop us a note with your email address. As we are just beginning this project I will only list the core team, until I have compiled a complete list of department coordinators and their respective teams.

First of all let me introduce myself. My DA nick is FrogOnTOp. My current account has been cleared to serve as a staging point for various polls and such in regards to the project. I'll be acting as the Project Coordinator for this collaboration. It is essential that we assemble ourselves a talented team and adhere to a schedule, as should one person not follow through, the whole team will suffer.

So below find a partial list of the team.

FrogOnTOp - Project Coordinator

kickintheteeth - Design & Coding

simgfx - Design & Coding

system7 - Lead Programmer

kristyvictoria - TBA

Please sign up to help us out on this project, and input is always appreciated.

In addition we are looking for people that can offer free web hosting that
supports a mySQL server and possibly PHP ? to use as a staging server.
If you can offer any assistance, please drop us a note!

Regards,

FrogOnTOp and the Project_H3lp Team!