On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:32:21 -0500 Chris Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One other thing that may be good, is someone to donate resources if > need be to get the project off the ground. Us doing all the technical > footwork, means very little if there is no practical application in > place, something tangible to look at and evaluate. > > If we're going to commit to this, then we may as well go as far as we > can with it, till it looks so impressive and awe-inspiring that we > can't help but be flocked to, like gentoo-wiki and the forums. When I > help new users into the world of Linux and Gentoo, I tell them, there > are three things you should book mark, and visit frequently, > gentoo.com, gentoo-wiki.com and forums.gentoo.org, why shouldn't this > be any different. Friends, I write custom database-driven websites like this one professionally, and there is absolutely no reason that, if I had just a little help coding the thing, we couldn't turn something like this into a reality. If anyone is interested in, and has the resources necessary to, make this happen, please speak up. The project might to very well if we had someone to do a little web design, someone to write a little PHP, and whoever else wanted to help, besides myself. Furthermore, it's possible we can simply have the code that runs on ubuntu's site. I have sent a mail[1] to the webmasters of ubuntu.com, hoping it will be directed to the proper feedback channels. I know hosting won't be a problem; I'm sure the gentoo web people would stick it on a box somewhere, or, failing that, give us a subdomain to work with on our own servers. I think, personally, that we should leave bugs.gentoo.org alone on this one. The devs are likely to think 'wouldn't it be nice if we had this neat web page ... ' doesn't count as a feature enhancement, but rather a _feature_. To that end, I started a gentoo forums post[2] about the topic instead. Make sure to speak up if you want to help! Thanks for reading. [1] email to [EMAIL PROTECTED],canonical}.com > My attention has recently been drawn to brainstorm.ubuntu.com. What > an excellent way to 'socialize' user ideas and feedback! The site > got a bit of attention on the gentoo-users mailing list, and the > general feeling was that such a site would be greatly beneficial to > the community here in gentoo as well. > > Would you be amenable to the idea of granting us permission to use the > site engine? > > Thank you for your time, > > Dan Farrell [2] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-673136.html -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
