I think that's a great idea (the common font, colors, logo(?)) We also need a list of tutorials and wikis. Here's the tutorial/wiki I'm working on: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/D_(The_Programming_Language)
I also think that ddoc isn't as good as many other alternatives, but I don't think it's easy to change it. On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:02 AM, James Fisher <jameshfis...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote: >> >> The main problem with D is that there's too many people with their lists >> about what's wrong with D, and not enough willing to actually jump in and >> help out. I'm sorry if I come across a bit harsh, but we seriously get >> another one of these "What's wrong with D" lists every few weeks (and each >> one seems more out-of-date than the last) and hardly any of the people >> writing them have ever actually made any real contributions besides just >> complaints. If you're going to help out, then fantastic, and welcome >> aboard! >> But if not, then please understand that we already have more volunteer >> supervisors than we need, so that sort of thing gets very frustrating for >> those of us dedicating our own time and effort for free to actually >> accomplish all the goals. >> > > Well, sure I'm willing to help. The reason I started out like this was to > gauge whether these problems were actually seen to be problems by the > community -- you get a lot of projects that are so inward-facing that > suggestions that it should be otherwise are taken as insults. > > While my coding abilities aren't bad, I figure that's not what I'm best > helping with here. Key things I'd suggest I could help with are: > > - A simple D brand identity. Nothing complex, just an official > pronouncement that "this is our logo/logotype, this is our color palette, > these are the one or two fonts we use, here's how we describe ourselves, > here are some simple guidelines on how to build a D-branded site/document". > This could be hashed out and maintained in a small GH repo. > - Applying that to d-programming-language.org. > - Coming up with a long list of D community > sites/wikis/tutorials/howtos/documentation/link lists. Identifying > projects > that overlap domains and drumming up support for these to be merged into > the > most popular of them or into d-programming-language.org. **I do think > this is possible!** > >