[FWP] Something To Do: "freesubmit project"

["David L. Nicol" <david@kasey.umkc.edu>]

I've just spent two weeks negotiating with a firm
who want someone to build a URL submission engine for them;
a system where the paying customers fill out one form
and the business submits their data to all the search engines
they can find. (like "submit-it" but more thorough)

The system I proposed to build for them had, therefore,
two interfaces:  a client interface for the paying customers
to put their information into, and an administrative interface
for the administrators to define new "targets" which were to
be defined in terms of The CGI URL to submit the data to,
the form of the data, and a translation table translating
the categorization information collected on the One Form into
the categories required by the specific targets.

Negotiations fell apart when I tried to add a clause to
their contract which would make the copyright on the finished
program return to me if they didn't pay for it (after a year)
so I am patting myself on the back for getting away without
giving them a chance to not pay me.

But anyway.  Would anyone be into helping put together a
free, open-sourced URL submission engine based on the
idea in the second paragraph?  We would host it on
my reliable, high-bandwidth rented virtual server and
all participants would get to share the glory of the credit.

I have set up a mailing list to discuss this further.
To join, send an email to


freesubmit-subscribe@egroups.com


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               David Nicol 816.235.1187 nicold@umkc.edu
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