Resources

Eligibility for inclusion in the A-Book will be tightly controlled to ensure that this core resource does not bloat. It is recognised however that there are a lot of other resources that the ICOA can either provide or at least link to, both development resources and general community/developer resources. Discussion Summary The first resource that we shall provide is a subject summary of the privare ICOA mailing list. We received many letters of thanks for providing a day to day summary of the ICOA phase 3 project, when it was run by the JMS. Now that the ICOA is its own master, Sam Stickland has been busy collating the mailing list and will continue to do so until the TSC or the SC decides otherwise. The summary represents no ICOA opinion or stance on any subject. It is merely a verbatim sumamry of the subjects and their discussions as they have appeared on the mailing list. Database The second resource that we are preparing is an online, searchable database of all Amiga developers, commercial and otherwise and a database of all Amiga producst that are still being developed. We hope that these two databases will form the basis of a truly comprehensive system which allows anyone to find out just who and what is still out there for their favourite computer. We hope to have this up and running by december. Graphics The third resource we wish to provide is a set of ICOA graphics, buttons, T-Shirts transfers, icons set for the website etc. The Amiga has a rich tradition of graphic excellence and we would like to see this tradition continue. We would like supporters of the ICOA to link our site through their pages. As a result we would like to ask for artists to try their hand at making buttons for the community so that the community can use them. We are also very keen on promoting our platform. One way we would like to do this is to provide each member, full and affiliate with a choice of yearly T-Shirts, that they can wear with pride and push our platform back into the limelight. The plan is that each member will recieve one T-Shirt per year with the year on it, and then the ICOA booth at every show will have a number of show iron-on patches, so that members can roadmap their dedication to their platform on their T-Shirt. Consequently, we are asking for individuals to send us artwork that they feel would look good on an ICOA t-shirt. Of course, all material that is submitted is done so freely and with the knowledge that, if selected, it will become the property of the ICOA. If not selected then that material remains the property of the artist. Other resources will be made avialable as time progresses through the actions and suggestions of the community itself. These may be resources organised and managed locally by the ICOA or they may be links to resources provided by others in the community. Examples of possible future resources may include; tutorials in HW and SW development Information of general revelevance to development FTP site for coding tools, links to sites containing tools (Aminet et al)