Cory Pollard a écrit :
Hi everyone. I've had a thought that others may be interested in.
I would like to start a forum dedicated to inkscape. A place where we can have different headings/subheadings, tutorials, screenshots, WIP, and general discussions.
I wanted to see if others would be interested in making use of such a site. I would probably register under inkscapeforums.com or simmilar.
I can pay for domain registration and some hosting too. But, does anyone know the overall cost for running forums per annum?
Also, I don't want to tread on the feet of the Devs and everyone who started inkscape, would you guys be cool with the idea?
So, give some feedback and see if we can get this thing started.
Cory
A wiki would be a good idea for documentation. I think someone mentioned Sourceforge offers a wiki, but I don't really now about it, and Sourceforge never looks easy to use for a newbie like me. I never even saw wiki over there, and even less documentation with images.
I don't really use the wiki at DevianArt, and I don't think that's where users would really go to. Something accessible from Inkscape main page would be easier.
Ideally, it would make it easy to add pictures (screen captures), like what I did for Wacom tablets under Ubuntu Dapper (have a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com//Wacom ).
It's true some might think it overkill and esteem that not many stuff would get done. However, a good effect of a wiki is that it would make it possible to colaborate to a good "official" Inkscape guide that would get included in Inkscape distributed packages. At the moment, it looks like there's two or three different guide, all of them incomplete, and some single pages that are not the same depending on the language.
It would be nice to put on the wiki one of the guide (the most complete one?) if the author agrees and is happy to collaborate with others. The copyright could be owned by Inkscape, or published under an Open Document license (or any other that would suit Inkscape developers).
I, and certainly others, could start by adding screen captures to the portions of the guide already covered, then write portions of it.
I'd be happy to copy paste what I already wrote about enabling Extended Input Devices in Inkscape for a start.
For the forums, if you have the bandwidth and are afraid they won't get used at the beginning, it's possible to link them to inkscape-user mailing list (like Ubuntu does). Nice when googling for something :)
Let us know what you think. If Inkscape guide writers are interested, it would be nice to hear their opinion about it. For me, I just know that contacting the authors, downloading the guide somewhere, editing the pages as html or the format required by the guide, learning how to add pictures THEN having to sync everything and wait till the author commits the changes... is something I can't do. However, starting my browser wherever I am for a few hours editing a wiki when I have the time is doable, and far better for collaborative work. Then we would have a nice manual along Inkscape (the pages done in svg inside Inkscape are wonderfull, and the one(s) that made them is really a good teacher - it's just the online manuals I have a grip with :P )