<div>I think, wiki is a MUST, it can give more freedom to the developers</div>
<div>work, and enchance the direction of maemo. </div>
<div>Andreas</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/14/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Koen Kooi</b> <<a href="mailto:koen@handhelds.org">koen@handhelds.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Karoliina T. Salminen wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>
> I think we have been thinking about adding wiki and that it would be a<br>> good idea.<br>> However, I have another improvement idea in mind:<br>><br>> How about discussion forums? I think they are easier to manage
<br>> than mailing lists, but that is just my opinion as I am a forum heavy<br>> user and not<br>> all are like that. Could you by the way tell your opinion about forums,<br>> do you like or dislike<br>> them? Adding
e.g. phpbb running on the server wouldn't be a huge task I<br>> think.<br><br>Forums tend to be a black hole for documentation, bugreports and fixes.<br>It should be made *very* clear that forums are something *extra* to
<br><a href="http://maemo.org">maemo.org</a>, not an integral part of it. Forums are nice to get newbies<br>going and build a non-irc community, but shouldn't replace documentation<br>and mailinglists.<br>Forums also tend to be more user-oriented than developer-oriented which
<br>lead to developer-drain in the forums I used to frequent.<br><br>This is of cource my personal opinion as an arrogant bastard who<br>actually reads docs ;)<br><br><br>> We have several forums running on our home server already with phpbb and
<br>> the configuration<br>> (including the MySQL database setup) was one evening task or so.<br>><br>> One of the benefits with forums is that they are very easily accessible<br>> with<br>> the 770, I surf some forums with the 770, easy interface to check topics
<br>> that I am just<br>> interested to and nothing else without waiting for ages the e-mail<br>> buffer to be<br>> transferred via (my mobile phone's) GPRS to the device (I don't have<br>> EDGE or UMTS on my
<br>> phone yet, therefore I don't have the luxury to download huge amounts of<br>> data when I am<br>> not connected to WLAN with the N770, however, looking what is new in a<br>> forum is<br>> a few seconds long task with the N770 even with a GPRS-connection :) ).
<br><br>A gmame (or sourceforge) like interface to the mailinglists accomplishes<br>about the same for the email part.<br><br>><br>> There are different competing forum softwares out there. Which one would<br>> you prefer by the way in case you would like the idea?
<br>> For example one of my favourite forums allows picture attachments and it<br>> is pretty cool feature<br>> that is not present in the phpbb:<br>> <a href="http://www.fsnordic.net/discussion/">http://www.fsnordic.net/discussion/
</a><br>> I don't know if it is relevant for us to have picture attachments, but<br>> I was just thinking of<br>> some screen shots, it would be a lot easier to attach a picture to the<br>> message than put<br>
> the picture to your home page, and then create a [img] [/img] -link to<br>> that file.<br><br>I do like to drool over screenshots in forums :)<br><br>regards,<br><br>Koen<br><br><br>><br>> Karoliina Salminen
<br>> karoliina at maemo dot org<br>><br>><br>><br>> ext Matt Croydon wrote:<br>><br>>> Devesh,<br>>><br>>> A wiki would be ideal and would allow us to create pages like the<br>>> application/porting effort pages as well as create a central place for
<br>>> porting notes, lists of apps that ./configure && make, etc.<br>>><br>>> --Matt<br>>><br>>><br>>> On 6/14/05, Devesh Kothari <<a href="mailto:devesh.kothari@nokia.com">
devesh.kothari@nokia.com</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>><br>>>> to support developers better. Any ideas??<br>>>><br>>>> Br,<br>>>> Devesh<br>>>><br>>>> _______________________________________________
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