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Help Develop An Open Projects Community Site
"OPN have thought a lot about the current development of community sites for the open source community. While we believe that sites like sourceforge and the like do a good job in their category, there are not enough project-related news sites.
We have decided that it is time to gather information, ideas and reminders from the open source community as to how they would like to have a site developed, that actually tells them, all in one place, what is going on with people in the community and the projects they work on.
So we're approaching the community, trying to gather as many contacts as possible and start discussing this idea we had during one long frenzied night of IRC brainstorming. Users who think they can help us out with ideas, development time, written content, information about the open source community and the like are asked to please participate and sign up to our mailing list at http://lists.openprojects.net. That same host runs an nntp server gatewayed to the mailing list archives, in the newsgroup opn.discussion. If you feel you are qualifying as a volunteer right away, you can sign up to our volunteer database using http://lists.openprojects.net/db/
Spreading the word is not easy and wording this right is even harder, so I will not try to make this sound any better. I'll just send it off, hoping that it gets posted and many join us. Should you have more specific questions, please join me on IRC. The server is irc.openprojects.net, the channel is #content.
oh yeah... I am dmalloc on IRC and right now I have quite a problem allocating more sanity.
cheers...
On behalf of dmalloc, lilo and the rest of the gang on irc.openprojects.net"
So who's up for this? I'd like to see a by-project community site that goes beyond the few excellent sites over at LinuxCare's Kernel Central, like Kernel Traffic, though I wonder how hard it will be to pull off an organizational task of this size.
I would also like to thank slashdot for posting this article and I would liek to thank OPN for trusting me enough to lead this project
I am also on OPN dmalloc as you surely noticed and I am in charge of the organisational matters which are linked to this project
I have been going through the comments and there is a lot of good content.
All I can ask of all of you, is that you signe up to the mailing list.
A quick over view of what is going to happen.
The mailing list is still closed until a threshold of 60 sign ups is reached, which should happen fairly fast, givent he fact, that slashdot is helping us out a lot by posting this article.
After the list has been opened, it will take a few fays, presumeably until Friday until I post the "Ideas and specifcations sheet".
That nit of information will layout to everyone which key points we thought this site should have, everyone on the mailing list and that has access to our news server via nntp is then invited to discuss additional ideas.
This will be a site from the users for the users, we are only in charge of the organisation, or better I am in charge of it.
It is important, that you particiapte in any form, simply spill your ideas on your news server to the group named opn.ideas until the list is opened and the idea sheet has been posted.
I am also often on IRC, so please do not hesitate to ask me if you have more specific questions.
The only last thing I am asking of you, is that you are a bit patient with me. I promise to get this project rolling by the weekend and I expect a lot of feedback.
Please excuse my typoes and hopefully you will be visintg our mailing list soon.
dmalloc();
Jabber.
"You're gonna need a bigger boat." - Chief Brody
i can't reply to you (sorry everyone else) since there is no mail link in your message nor is there a url.
but do contact me about the various possibilities. we might be able to help you out is several ways including co-location.
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This is one of the things that I feel we should be doing.
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Links to key developer's .plan updates (if they have them - this seems more prevelant in the game industry) would be key... similar to what Blues News does. Just a thought....
Have a Happy.
As one admin to another... glad you chose our network for your link and glad to see you wanting to help out even more! Wish I had more time :)
Thanks to everyone who has shown interest so far. What we need more than anything at this point are graphical design people and people comfortable with the technical aspects of things like php and postgresql. Haven't nailed down the design yet, so input on that will be useful, though we do have some ideas. Try to have input on the desirability of the tools you know best.
What we need most, of course, is for people who have time, talent and interest to subscribe to the content contact list and suffer through the initial organizational throes. :)
We're not initially planning to do user forums. I think sites like Slashdot and K5 do as good a job of such things as it's possible to do, and I don't envy them the work that goes into it. What we plan to do is features on the state of people and projects in the community and articles on how the community can leverage its talents in positive ways. It's hoped we can contribute a very community-oriented site and possibly help finance the growth of OPN.
Hope to see you on the mailing list!
Rob Levin
Head of Operations, Open Projects Net
"Open source, open technology, open information"
Personally I WANT new ideas, and I do not to get upset at newbies or ignorance. I DO get upset with stupidity and childishness. While peoples opinions about what is childish vary widely. Posting "Yeah I'm first, lets goto goat.cx and grab some pr0n and BSD rules you stupid linux fuck. GNOME RULEZ" should go straight to the haters page.
"Science is about ego as much as it is about discovery and truth " - I said it, so sue me.
Just a couple of ideas, best of luck.
"Science is about ego as much as it is about discovery and truth " - I said it, so sue me.
So make sure you do not get blind sided by the commitments you find yourself making.
That being said, even helping out a little would probably be appreciated. For example, maybe something like hosting a server or a slashcode site, etc. so that the front line troops can focus on the work at hand.
of course, it is best to check with them to see what is really needed and wanted.
Sounds like what they could use are a couple of extra assistant leaders
;-)
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
...who think that at least one paragraph was left out of this story? I have literally NO idea what he is talking about. I see a bunch of references to "Open Projects" and I see some answers that reference website software. Other than that, I have zero clue. If this were K5, I'd vote "-1 Dump it" with an editorial saying "rewrite to make clearer".
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Hello. This is indeed a very interesting idea, please make sure you sign up to our mailing list and promote it there.
Just for your information, we are already promoting such a format in a very limited way.
OUr specification, for now, reads, that content and layout engine are completely seperated.
This means we will be able to provide a whole lot of different formats from one content source.
Hopefully that will also help in providing content to remote sites.
dmalloc