This is a quick note to record some of the things I have learned this week about working with lexical data within SIL's software options.

1. There is information scattered all over the place:
   • FLEx website: http://fieldworks.sil.org
     • Google Group:https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/flex-list
   • Toolbox website: http://www-01.sil.org/computIng/toolbox/
     • Toolbox Google Grouphttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ShoeboxToolbox-Field-Linguists-Toolbox
   • Webonary Website: http://webonary.org/
     And then on Webonary about Data transfer: http://webonary.org/data-transfer/
   • Solid:http://solid.palaso.org/
   • Wesay: http://wesay.palaso.org/
   • LingTranSoft:
     • A redundancy of the FLEx Google group: http://tiki.lingtransoft.info/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=27&topics_offset=1
     • Various introductions to FLEx: http://tiki.lingtransoft.info/Introduction+to+Flex?structure=Navmenu
   • MDF documentation:http://www-01.sil.org/computing/shoebox/mdf.html including this PDF
   • The LIFt format: https://code.google.com/p/lift-standard/
   • LiftTweaker:http://projects.palaso.org/projects/show/lifttweaker
   • LiftTools: http://downloads.palaso.org/LiftTools/
   • xHtml expression of lift: http://pathway.sil.org/features/standards/dictionary-xhtml-proposed-standard/
2. What should the purpose of the websites be? to distribute the product or to build community around the product's existence?