[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] how we can enhance the maemo.org

[From: Karoliina T. Salminen]

Hi,

I think we have been thinking about adding wiki and that it would be a 
good idea.
However, I have another improvement idea in mind:

How about discussion forums? I think they are easier to manage
than mailing lists, but that is just my opinion as I am a forum heavy 
user and not
all are like that. Could you by the way tell your opinion about forums, 
do you like or dislike
them? Adding e.g. phpbb running on the server wouldn't be a huge task I 
think.
We have several forums running on our home server already with phpbb and 
the configuration
(including the MySQL database setup) was one evening task or so.

One of the benefits with forums is that they are very easily accessible with
the 770, I surf some forums with the 770, easy interface to check topics 
that I am just
interested to and nothing else without waiting for ages the e-mail 
buffer to be
transferred via (my mobile phone's) GPRS to the device (I don't have 
EDGE or UMTS on my
phone yet, therefore I don't have the luxury to download huge amounts of 
data when I am
not connected to WLAN with the N770, however, looking what is new in a 
forum is
a few seconds long task with the N770 even with a GPRS-connection :) ).

There are different competing forum softwares out there. Which one would 
you prefer by the way in case you would like the idea?
For example one of my favourite forums allows picture attachments and it 
is pretty cool feature
that is not present in the phpbb:
http://www.fsnordic.net/discussion/
I don't know if it is relevant for us to have picture attachments, but  
I was just thinking of
some screen shots, it would be a lot easier to attach a picture to the 
message than put
the picture to your home page, and then create a [img] [/img] -link to 
that file.

Karoliina Salminen
karoliina at maemo dot org



ext Matt Croydon wrote:

>Devesh,
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>A wiki would be ideal and would allow us to create pages like the
>application/porting effort pages as well as create a central place for
>porting notes, lists of apps that ./configure && make, etc.
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>--Matt
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>On 6/14/05, Devesh Kothari <devesh.kothari at nokia.com> wrote:
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>>to support developers better. Any ideas??
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>>Br,
>>Devesh
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