George Herbert wrote:
On 1/21/07, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
With the feeling for a need of an alternate search engine, you will have obviously considered a business model for this project, even "not for profits" need business plans. This business plan will make plain why it is a good thing to do but most of all how it will be possible to make it a sustainable project. Sustainable as in being both able to scale and to be there next year as well.
As the recent Wikipedia fundraising drive demonstrates, it's one thing to start a collaboration project, but it's entirely another to keep up with your own wild success if you do take off.
If you introduce the world's best, brand new search engine open source tech project tomorrow, that's more useful and open than Google, you're going to have a hard time managing the growth, by any standards, commercial or open source...
To amplfy Gerard's comment, the "vision" has to include a business plan and some operational clue.
Absolutely! We can't be everything for everybody. But a more sophisticated internal search function would still be nice.
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