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

[From: Andreas Orfanos]

I think, wiki is a MUST, it can give more freedom to the developers
work, and enchance the direction of maemo. 
Andreas


 On 6/14/05, Koen Kooi <koen at handhelds.org> wrote: 
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> Karoliina T. Salminen wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Forums tend to be a black hole for documentation, bugreports and fixes.
> It should be made *very* clear that forums are something *extra* to
> maemo.org <http://maemo.org>, not an integral part of it. Forums are nice 
> to get newbies
> going and build a non-irc community, but shouldn't replace documentation
> and mailinglists.
> Forums also tend to be more user-oriented than developer-oriented which
> lead to developer-drain in the forums I used to frequent.
> 
> This is of cource my personal opinion as an arrogant bastard who
> actually reads docs ;)
> 
> 
> > 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 :) ).
> 
> A gmame (or sourceforge) like interface to the mailinglists accomplishes
> about the same for the email part.
> 
> >
> > 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.
> 
> I do like to drool over screenshots in forums :)
> 
> regards,
> 
> Koen
> 
> 
> >
> > Karoliina Salminen
> > karoliina at maemo dot org
> >
> >
> >
> > ext Matt Croydon wrote:
> >
> >> Devesh,
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> --Matt
> >>
> >>
> >> On 6/14/05, Devesh Kothari <devesh.kothari at nokia.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> to support developers better. Any ideas??
> >>>
> >>> Br,
> >>> Devesh
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