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Version: 3094 | Series: 7380 Launch schedule (make a Launch Event Series, pseudo Tasks, Needs) 2000/12/15 Email to Notables/Quotables (individual emails) 2001/1/1 Press launch Adaptec lunch list, Peter Lewis, WSJ guy, Bus Week guy, big press list, Perl batch? 2001/1/15 Consultants beta.96 2001/2/1 Developers (API in theSky) beta.97 Submissions to major developer sites - zdnet DevHeads, ASP today, www.perl.com, sourceXchange 2001/2/15 Resellers/ISPs/Hardware partners beta.98 2001/03/1 Commercial Launch (Shop Module needed) version 1.0 ________________________________________ To Do Before Launch Authorize.net Digital Certificates - for DTVGroup, SkyBuilders SourceXchange (Linux/Perl only) Microsoft SiteBuilder - purchase initial Windows 2000 Server, SQL Server, etc. Marketing Logo artwork, Flash version? Get Boca Raton font on BobPoly (Rebekah) Documentation (mostly on the skyBuilders web site) Help Pages Installation instructions Developer Pages Consultant Pages Business Pages Design (Technology) Pages Define/Design/Develop/Deploy Product Pages Manager Pages Glossary Page (one big one, with anchors, later skyGloss) ToDo Page (one big one, with anchors) Pre-Launch Milestones Monday morning strategy meetings 2000/02/21 Trademark applications (get skyBuilders 2000/06) skyBuilders, skyBuilt - in progress various 'in theSky' - in progress? 'the webWare company'? Offsite backup (Derek's Concentric DSL site) Site Monitor in place Statistics Logging and Analysis Reminders in Events (not likely?) Search capability on skyBuilders.com web site? before V. 0.9, we need to have ready: documentation, internal and external (Data Dictionary) dev.skyBuilders.com launch Develop Test/Demo Site Generator (Folder clones enough?) demos.skybuilders.com - large number of installations (instant deployments) a developer package, with recommended reading and write-ups of our standards and methods, ftp and site access, email, etc. a consulting package, with examples, installation and customization notes, tools and strategies, email, etc. a translator's package? openInternetLexicon.com a programmer's package a Zip file available for download? get InstallShield or SSEDIT (www.soysal.com) to package downloads Individual serverPage downloads Backup Services (backup db with encryption for our customer sites) Server monitor verifies pages are serving. (Site Monster) NetSaint ditto? Version 0.9 (beta until Commercial launch - now in 2001?) this deploy is to developers and consultants (prospectives) this corresponds with the public launch of skyBuilders.com ASP deploy (as close to full as possible) PHP Deploy (partial) Perl deploy (partial) Core, Pages (Forms), Events, Reservations all at same beta level. Sell separately. Web Hosting - BBN/Shore/PSINet-TIAC/others Mark Semich help? Have a site running in a Data Center at launch, so we can switch if necessary with Remote Administration OpenInternetLexicon, OpenDataBaseModel, OpenServerPages People - Richard Homonoff, Joe DeBassio, PaulSteinberg/MJ Kenny, Mike Schindlinger, Kathy Lloyd, Maggie Bruzelius, Richard Morello, John Donovan, Bruce Molay, Jeff Sauer, Matt McMakin, Brian DeLacey, Simson Garfinkel, Priscilla Choate Angels - Paul Allen, David Wetherell, Mitch Kapor, Corporate Partners - AOL, Microsoft, Sun, IBM/Lotus, Intel, Oracle, SyBase, VCs - Roger Williams, Rick Sharpie, Karen Camp, Jacqueline Morby, Howard Anderson Notables - Tim Berners-Lee, Tim O'Reilly, Eric Raymond, Richard Stallman, Dan Bricklin/Bob Frankston, Brian Behlendorf Join W3C? syncMLiCalendar XBRL.org IMS (CBT) ______________________________________________________________ __________________________________ Technology Needed for the business, some by Launch time Data Dictionary (one for program code, one for database) problems, Item - Article, Date in Calendar (reserved word) Glosses, with links (italics?, blue) Database Model (ODBM) PalmPilot Integration bought Palm IIIs and Minstrel get developer info, Programming book HDML - MicroBrowser support, WAP Bar-code reader support order a wedge 12/27/99 for Admissions to Events Control, Inventory Package, Rentals, etc. Peachtree Quicken/QuickBooks data structures (imports/exports Excel) talk to Intuit, offering ASP support (PC Mag quoted) Is there a RDBMS accounting package? (10/27) Oracle partners? Database converters (10/25) List of all chars (combos?) that break SQL (e.g., ' |) Is there an escape method? Yes '' 2000/01/25 JDK development on BobPoly (00/01/02) add 40GBdrive (added 4GB SCSI - replaces 17GB IDE that failed) JSP a snap with JDK? Source Control (CVS) 2000/02/25 Set up on Linux box CVS on Windows? expensive? Get Richard Morello to help? Bruce Molay? skyCap Page Porter - to convert ASP/VB to PHP, Perl, JSP, ASP/JS (and maybe 4D Server Pages, Filemaker Pro Server Pages) Ports of timeLines to PHP, Perl (maybe JSP) for launch. Server box hosted at an ISP data center. Shore.net, Exodus.net, Genuity.net, Interland.com Can we Laplink to it? Can we run multiple virtual servers? Basic box $250 to $500/month. Can we find an economy deal that will take our tower server(s)? - give them an IP.