The Contesting Compendium is up and running, at
<http://wiki.contesting.com/>http://wiki.contesting.com
. Our objective is to make this into a one-stop
source for information on contesting, and to
ensure that all the good stuff that is now
scattered across the Internet doesn?t succumb to
the ravages of time, hard drive failures, or other accidents of history.
So now it?s up to us. I want to start by
emphasizing the "us" element. I?m committed to
making this work, but it will fail unless it
becomes a true community project. I?m going to
suggest the broadest organizational outlines, but
from that point forward it is up to you,
contesters around the world, who have information
to contribute. Don?t feel that what you know or
want to say is not of broad enough interest ?
there is room in the Compendium for articles that
are as broad as ?antenna design for contesting?
and as narrow as ?contesting in Iraq in 2005.?
We (KM3T, K5TR, K5ZD,N5KO and I) have created a
start to a
<http://wiki.contesting.com/index.php/Table_of_Contents>Table
of Contents. It might best be described as a
rough outline or starting point for ideas on
content and structure. You should feel free to
edit or add to the
<http://wiki.contesting.com/index.php/Table_of_Contents>Table
of Contents and also to add actual content. There
is already some content linked from the table of contents.
Please check out the
<http://wiki.contesting.com/index.php/How_to_Read/Browse>How
to Read/Browse and
<http://wiki.contesting.com/index.php/How_To_Contribute>How
To Contribute pages, for the nuts and bolts.
You?ll need to create an account to join in, but
we pledge that none of your data will be shared outside the Compendium team
Nothing is cast in concrete ? if you want to
suggest other ideas, edit away ? everyone who
signs up to become a contributor or editor and
edit any page except those - typically articles
from other sources reused in their entirety with
permission of their authors - that are locked. My
hope is that eventually we'll have hundreds of
authors contributing material and keeping it up
to date. If you don?t want to edit other
people?s work, feel free to use the Discussion
tab at the top of each page to give us your
suggestions. And also please feel free to drop
me a note if I can help you become a contributor.
73,
Pete Smith N4ZR
Managing Editor and Chief Compendium Lackey
Dave Pascoe, KM3T
George Fremin III, K5TR
Randy Thompson, K5ZD
Trey Garlough, N5KO
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