discuss: Re: LDP Anniversary]
Subject:
Re: moRe: [Fwd: LDP Anniversary]
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
2 May 2002 16:27:57 -0000
Message-Id: <20020502171930.GH11663@lupercalia.net>
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:20:42AM -0400, Paul Jones wrote:
> Serena writes:
>
> There is also this interview with MAtt Welsh at O'Reilly about the early
> days at LDP:
> http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/02/25/interview/welshtranscript.html
>
> A Feb 15, 1993 letter from Matt Welsh taking over the project from Lars:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/fents/ldp/930224.18.txt
>
> A December 21, 1993 letter from MAtt - he has a sunsite email address
> and the url for the documentation that he discusses is at sunsite. So
> things arrived before then:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/fents/ldp/931222.14.txt
Some Googling found the following very interesting posts.
The first posting with "Linux Documentation Project" on USENET is from
Matt Welsh, announcing the project. It seems it was first proposed by
Lars on the linux-activists mailing list.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+%22linux+documentation+project%22&hl=en&lr=lang_en&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1992&as_maxd=31&as_maxm=12&as_maxy=1992&selm=1992Nov13.030905.3415%40tc.cornell.edu&rnum=1
A post from Michael K. Johnson about the project in March, 1992. This
posting indicates the project had already been underway since even
earlier:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Linux+Documentation+Project&hl=en&lr=lang_en&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1987&as_maxd=31&as_maxm=12&as_maxy=1992&selm=1992Mar31.015341.26436%40athena.mit.edu&rnum=2
A RFQ for documentation in July, 1992. Apparently, the volume was
getting out of hand. Hehe. Look at us *now*:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Linux+Documentation+Project&hl=en&lr=lang_en&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1987&as_maxd=31&as_maxm=12&as_maxy=1992&selm=1992Jul6.173131.6234%40news.nd.edu&rnum=3
There are of course hundreds of similar messages back and forth. I
haven't tracked down an actual announcement of the site launch yet,
though that would be the real gold. Surely it must be there somewhere.
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