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The weekly news is intended to provide a summary of recent developments within the Free University Project. Individual working groups and departments will also maintain monthly status reports once justified by sufficient progress.
I submitted the Project's website to a number
of search engines (google.com, yahoo.com, dmoz.org, ah-ha.com,
alltheweb.com, altavista.com, entireweb.com, lookseek.com, subjex.com,
surfgopher.com, truesearch.com), and finally removed the exclusions
from the primary robots.txt file to allow for general
traversal of the site by search engine spiders/crawlers.
I shared a presentation on the Free University Project with the other participants at the Second Annual Debian Conference (DebConf2), which incidentally was a very enjoyable conference. I perceived the response as quite positive.
I now have our envisioned primary communications channel, Internet Relay Chat, installed and running at irc.freeuniversityproject.org. The server is Dancer IRCd, which also powers Open Projects Net.
I've initiated development of Physics, Mathematics, Information Systems, and Military Science curricula, and begun discussing the project in detail with colleagues and classmates at Cornell.
For the first time, I finally shared my motivations, passions, and hopes for this project with some other people, specifically being able to discuss these ideas and possible future directions with my close friends, Trent Sandifur and Jill Martino. I was grateful for their encouragement.
After I started development of this project in late 2000, I became too heavily engaged in my physics research to work constantly on this project for over a year. I'm excited and proud to announce that I've again commenced development, curricular preparation, and (hopefully) team/volunteer recruitment. Also, as of 28 April 2002, this website has gone live, and is now in a general availability release-mode. I expect constant (almost daily) improvements in the coming weeks (I'll be out of the country and unavailable for the last week of April 2002 and the first week of May 2002). Any questions or comments, please email me at freedman@physics.cornell.edu.
See the Free University Project contact page for information on getting in touch with us.
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But soon, copyright © 2000-2004 Free University Project Foundation (once I figure out how to incorporate a 501(c)3 non-profit)
