On 6/29/11 2:02 AM, James Fisher 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harsh, but we seriously get another one of these "What's wrong with D" lists every few weeks (and each one seems more out-of-date than the last) and hardly any of the people writing them have ever actually made any real contributions besides just complaints.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 <http://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 <http://d-programming-language.org>. **I do think this is possible!**
While I'm just a volunteer, based on my experience I believe that contributions in these areas would be welcomed and very useful.
