This group needs a FAQ, as it seems every day someone comes
with a "Hey, can you help me get started in electronics?" query.
It takes at least one person who is willing to collect and
organize the information from different sources and set up a web site.
That person can ask in the newsgroup for help with facts or
explanations.
The result could be a web site which we can refer to.
Something like this, maybe?
"This is a FAQ for seb, created by Eric Thomson, with kind assistance
of the participators of seb."
or
"This is a web site about elementary electronics, created by the
participators of the discussion group sci.electr..
Current editor: Eric Thomson."
It can be inspirational to look at the web site the participators of
alt.comp.freeware have achieved, at
http://pricelesswarehome.org/
But that is an example of a very advanced and massive web site. They
found a girl who likes to run it and update it. People tell her about
updates and ideas for the web site and she often asks the group for its
meaning on different issues.
Voting about the best freeware programs is organized once a year and
the groups selection is presented on the web site. The web site also
contains other stuff the group has suggested. Another guy has started a
wiki web site and he cooperates with the girl and a few others about
issues which are not worth discussing in the group.
They needed to get a new web site for Pricelessware, so they asked for
help in the group. 4-5 contributors gave enough money to run the web
site for the coming 5 years.
Pricelessware is on its way to becoming known, computer magazines and
bloggers talk about it, and increasing numbers of people use the web
site.
This is what can be achieved through voluntary cooperation.
Think about the other end of the scale of commitment. Could we achieve
something worth looking at for a beginner, even though we are lazy
bastards, and can we do it without even getting sweaty?
I am too occupied with other things, but maybe you could do it?