Ted had a great idea to create the equivalent site for graphics development in Open Source like Planet Gnome is for the Gnome community.
Thus, I'm running with this idea to see whom would be interested in such a community. I have asked freedesktop.org if they would support this blog, and they said yes. Ted, Bryce and I discussed names for the project and subdomains and like lab.freedesktop.org (linux art blog).
The site basically would be a basic RSS Aggregrator and thus, we need your RSS feeds for your blogs and project news.
Before I set anything up, I wanted to see if the interest is out there and if people already have RSS feeds.
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.
Thoughts?
Thx Jon
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
I knew that was a ted idea for jon to implement and maintain ;)
The mailing list would just be for tech support on that and posting of the RSS feed ppl want added, then YOU and ME can maintain together... *_*
Jon
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 09:55, Ted Gould wrote:
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
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Jon Phillips wrote:
Ted had a great idea to create the equivalent site for graphics development in Open Source like Planet Gnome is for the Gnome community.
The general idea of this site would be to start communication between graphics development communites. This would include basically Inkscape,
Excellent idea.
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.
Thoughts?
blog, and they said yes. Ted, Bryce and I discussed names for the project and subdomains and like lab.freedesktop.org (linux art blog).
Acronyms! I *hate* acronyms, they add unnecessary complexity.
Four reasons not to use that suggested title:
Shouldn't that be Gnu/Linux? Blog, ugh. What an ugly new word. Lab, you mean like laboratory? Why graphics.freedesktop.org or art.freedesktop.org?
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
Ok...soooo please suggest better ones y'all..
graphics.freedesktop.org
art.freedesktop.org
I like graphics.
Jon
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 11:15, Alan Horkan wrote:
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Jon Phillips wrote:
Ted had a great idea to create the equivalent site for graphics development in Open Source like Planet Gnome is for the Gnome community.
The general idea of this site would be to start communication between graphics development communites. This would include basically Inkscape,
Excellent idea.
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.
Thoughts?
blog, and they said yes. Ted, Bryce and I discussed names for the project and subdomains and like lab.freedesktop.org (linux art blog).
Acronyms! I *hate* acronyms, they add unnecessary complexity.
Four reasons not to use that suggested title:
Shouldn't that be Gnu/Linux? Blog, ugh. What an ugly new word. Lab, you mean like laboratory? Why graphics.freedesktop.org or art.freedesktop.org?
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
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