It's actually only about 80 gigs. : ) We sell hard drives with all of that on them. Or you can go the extremely slow route and download them all. We'd love to have someone make all that available through a P2P client - don't have the bandwidth to do it ourselves. And it's all under the OpenContent License, no worries about legality.
I could not possibly agree more. I recently worked for a company that at one point had code outsourced to two different companies, one in India, one in Massachusetts, plus in house engineers in both New York and Peru.
In general, I'd avoid outsourcing at all if possible - in some ways we had just as many problems with the people in Mass as we did with those in India. You're dooming yourself to constant miscommunications and misunderstandings and you'll probably have no promise that the code you get back won't be poorly written and nigh impossible to maintain (though you may get lucky, this is just my experience).
And then there are time differences, language and cultural differences (though we actually had more language/cultural issues to work out w/ those in Peru than in India). Realize that you and the people in India will probably be working at completely different times - makes it pretty hard for them to ask for that quick clarification or for you to catch them when they start to stray.
If you have to do this, be warned that you (or whoever manages this) is going to have to dedicate _way_ more time than you normally would to project management. You just can't manage people half a world away the same way you would people in the next room. It requires a lot of diligence and constant checking to make sure that everyone understands and is following the project requirements. If you've ever been amazed at how hard it can be to get the guy next to you on the same page... just imagine...
The Boston Globe had an article on the lawsuit yesterday on the front page of the business section, Web entrepreneur, financiers battle. Pretty balanced article, equal digs on both sides.
As an aduni student, it's pretty damn funny to have your prof in the news every other day... of course that means that your prof of the month is Philip...
On a related line, there are a lot of computer recycling organizations out there, such as Oberlin College's OCRP, you might try to find one near you. PEP National Directory of Computer Recycling Programs claims to have a fairly complete list.
Also there's the arsDigita Foundation which sponsers a prize for web service designed by high school age students and aDUni, a tution free computer science program. (Since I am an aDUni, this is a bit of shameless begging/advertising, but so far it has proven itself a very worthwhile program.)
record breakingly late, largely detouring around the topics, and over way too soon. (or am I the only one who's read enough about the man to expect this sort of thing:) )
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It's actually only about 80 gigs. : ) We sell hard drives with all of that on them. Or you can go the extremely slow route and download them all. We'd love to have someone make all that available through a P2P client - don't have the bandwidth to do it ourselves. And it's all under the OpenContent License, no worries about legality.
-heather
(ADUni webmaster)
I could not possibly agree more. I recently worked for a company that at one point had code outsourced to two different companies, one in India, one in Massachusetts, plus in house engineers in both New York and Peru.
In general, I'd avoid outsourcing at all if possible - in some ways we had just as many problems with the people in Mass as we did with those in India. You're dooming yourself to constant miscommunications and misunderstandings and you'll probably have no promise that the code you get back won't be poorly written and nigh impossible to maintain (though you may get lucky, this is just my experience).
And then there are time differences, language and cultural differences (though we actually had more language/cultural issues to work out w/ those in Peru than in India). Realize that you and the people in India will probably be working at completely different times - makes it pretty hard for them to ask for that quick clarification or for you to catch them when they start to stray.
If you have to do this, be warned that you (or whoever manages this) is going to have to dedicate _way_ more time than you normally would to project management. You just can't manage people half a world away the same way you would people in the next room. It requires a lot of diligence and constant checking to make sure that everyone understands and is following the project requirements. If you've ever been amazed at how hard it can be to get the guy next to you on the same page... just imagine...
As an aduni student, it's pretty damn funny to have your prof in the news every other day... of course that means that your prof of the month is Philip...
Also there's the arsDigita Foundation which sponsers a prize for web service designed by high school age students and aDUni, a tution free computer science program. (Since I am an aDUni, this is a bit of shameless begging/advertising, but so far it has proven itself a very worthwhile program.)
record breakingly late, largely detouring around the topics, and over way too soon. (or am I the only one who's read enough about the man to expect this sort of thing :) )