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Dear Community.
Some might know me, others do not. My name is David HÃhn, I am the main Administrative and Public Relation Manager for Fink. Lately I have once more brought up the discussion about an extended news source and community web-site for Fink on the core list. This is a pet project of mine and I would like to see it prosper. Thus, since some decisions have been made in my mind, I would like to ask for some input. It is important to me, that the community is involved in the process. While this is not a project directly related to the main Fink development nor a project that is yet officially endorsed by Fink itself, it will be my ultimate goal to make this project an official Fink part sooner or later.
I have looked at my options and decided that a Content Management system which is free, easy to expand and nice to administer has to be one of the basic prerequisites. I looked at a lot of options and I think that WebGui is a suitable system for this kind of Website. I did contact some vendors of Java based CMS for a possible sponsorship but I heard nothing back. For those of you who are interested in having a look at it, please see: www.plainback.com/webgui/
As domain name I will most likely go with something intuitive such as morefink.info or finknews.com
In Europe the .info is fairly common since info is the usual short for Information and often used in natural speech to signify that you want more information on a certain topic. I am open to suggestions of course.
So why am I writing this? I know that development in the Open Source Community with volunteers works best when you have something to present already, yet in this case I do not even want to start unless I see a certain level of support. The Resources are already there. I have a server I pay for that I could run this system on. I am willing to buy the domain, all that is now needed is some initial push to get me going. Someone willing to be an editor or people expressing their interest in such a news source would be enough.
The web-site should hold more general information about Fink which do not necessarily warrant a news item on the official home page. This includes technical things such a Variants support but also things like XFree 4.4 inclusions and the "why" behind it. Or User success stories, as well as reports who all uses Fink. Interviews with Fink Users and Developers and so on.
I am open to more suggestion. This is simply an initial message to get this out to the public.
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PS: THis is a X-Post please answer to ONE list only. Thank you.
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