Everyone can be a "Brave GNU World Scout" taking care that interesting people don't get left out in the Brave GNU World. All it takes is to mail the maintainers and send them a specific list of questions. The following list has proven itself to be very effective over the last year as it allows me to get a feeling for the project. So just take the following lines and send them to the maintainer of a project that you consider "Brave GNU World worthy."

---

Brave GNU World standard questions

Brave GNU World standard questions:
-----------------------------------

INTRODUCTION:

 These are the standard questions for the Brave GNU World column that
 can be found online at http://brave-gnu-world.org. 

 It has become customary to fill out these questions and mail them
 back to <column@gnu.org> in order to give me a good
 feeling/impression about a project. This also applies to
 non-technical projects, btw. 

 Please feel free to be as verbose as you want as more information
 will allow me to gain a more complete picture which I can then use to
 write a more complete feature.


QUESTIONS:

 * What is it?

 * Who would use it?

 * Why would they use it instead of similar projects?

 * (Programming) language used in this project?

 * Special features/strengths?

 * Special problems?

 * Who is working on it?

 * History of the project?

 * Why did the project start?

 * Current status of the project?

 * Plans for the close and distant future?

 * Do you need help? If so: of what kind?

 * Interesting/fun stories that might juice up the story?

 * Website/FTP addresses?

 * License?!

 * Standard documents to read in this context?

 * Anything you would like to see mentioned?

 * Answer to a question I forgot?


NOTE:

 Everything you want me to read should be sent to me by
 mail because very often I will take my mail with me and 
 read it where I don't have access to the net.

---

Oh - and of course authors/maintainers are very welcome to just take this list, fill it out and send it to me! .-)