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

[From: Andreas Orfanos]

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/
It Is very good as well. It helps a lot
Andreas
 On 6/14/05, Koen Kooi <koen at handhelds.org> wrote: 
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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 <http://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> <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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