On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 08:43, Jon Phillips wrote:
The general idea of this site would be to start communication between graphics development communites. This would include basically Inkscape, GIMP, Scribus, Cairo, etc. project blogs, but most importantly the individual developers blogs. The first step to sharing standards and ideas is to start this informal overlap and see what happens. This will also serve as a nice introduction for new developers and some users about to jump into the role of developer.
Thoughts and suggestions would be wise. If anyone is interested, lets discuss this on the inkscape mailing list and once enough responses are collected, then I will setup necessary infrastructure (mailing list and site) to facilitate this news site.
I guess the idea here is that there could be more communication within the Linux graphics community. I don't know if people here have read Planet GNOME - but there is generally some discussion, and sometimes people get in conversations about stuff. While, I don't expect this to make every app work together, I'm hoping that when an Inkscape developer posts about major and minor gridlines someone else goes "hey, we called them highlighted grid lines, maybe we could all call them the same thing." While this isn't going to solve all our problems, hopefully it will make a user's experience a little bit better. Also, I think it sets up a framework where more collaboration can take place.
I don't know that a mailing list is required. I'm happy to have everyone e-mail rejon when they have issues with the site ;)
--Ted