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The existing mentoring staff of the MOST does NOT claim to fully understand the entire range of Mac OS technologies. So far, we seem to have been able to cover the questions posed by our students. However, there is always room for additional technical expertise in our mentoring group. To be a mentor for The MOST, you'll need to do four things:
During our first year there were plenty of volunteers to help build and expand the site, but this last year that has fallen off. The last two mass edits of the site were performed almost completely by radar (with the notable exception of the work done by Harriet Smith to build the membership list... THANKS!). While this is OK and i have committed to doing this alone if necessary, the fact is that i only have so much time for this and when it's left to me alone it takes a long time to finally be finished.
Anyone, with or without HTML expertise, can help with the maintenance and expansion of this site. If you'd like to assist with the next expansion effort (there's still plenty that needs to be done), please subscribe to MOST-Webbers and watch for the next request for assistance. If you don't already know HTML that isn't a problem. Jens Malmgren and Dave Smith built our site originally before i had learned HTML, and they taught it to me in the process. I'm happy to pass that knowledge along in exchange for assistance on subsequent edits. It also doesn't matter what tools you have. While i now use a WYSIWYG HTML editor (Adobe PageMill) to build the site, our first rounds of edits were done with simple word processors. Anyone with a text editor of any kind can assist in building/maintaining pages.
Note that i never explicitly ask a specific individual to perform a task. You know when you're available and i don't want anyone to feel obligated to perform any specific task that they don't have time for at that point. This means that if you want to help, you have to monitor the MOST-Webbers list and speak up and volunteer when anyone there asks for help, not wait for an email to be sent to you personally.
When we founded The MOST, we thought we would need to create our own materials to serve as references for courses. The discovery of K.J. Bricknell's previously produced text "Macintosh C: A Hobbiest's Guide to Programming the Mac in C", and the succesful use of it as the basis for our first course, has shown that it is not only unnecessary for us to explicitly produce our course materials internally, it may be wasteful of the time that our volunteers do have to support the MOST. With this experience behind us, The official policy of the MOST is now that we encourage those with ideas for courses beyond what we have managed to create to work with us to make those course available to the public.
We will provide web space and (where appropriate) a course-specific mailing list to any individual who agrees to follow our general operating policies. We will also help publicize the existence of the course, and some of our current mentors will probably also sign up for the associated mailing list to help with class-discussions.
If you'd like to suggest a new course, send an email to radar to start the ball rolling.
If you don't have any technical skills to offer and don't have a way to help with site maintenance you can still help us by
We are always seeking URLS, references, etc. of interest to Mac developers for for our Resource Center, and for people to help build and maintain the places on our site that are just frameworks now. If you'd like to assist in any of these areas, please send an email to radar.
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