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

[From: Koen Kooi]

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

We at handhelds.org are very happy with the wiki (although it's a
moinmoin wiki instead of a mediawiki), and I especially like the
"RecentChanges" and notifications a wiki gives you.

regards,

Koen

> Andreas
> 
> 
>  
> On 6/14/05, *Koen Kooi* <koen at handhelds.org <mailto:koen at handhelds.org>>
> wrote:
> 
> 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/
> <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
> <mailto:devesh.kothari at nokia.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> to support developers better. Any ideas??
>>>>
>>>> Br,
>>>> Devesh
>>>>
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