4. Online demonstration of graphical controls and other capabilities - basic and extra from the community.
On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 10:02 AM Johan Vos <johan....@gluonhq.com> wrote: > It has been mentioned a number of times that JavaFX would benefit from a > JavaFX website. > I see a number of options that fall in the category website: > > 1. A set of pages with details on what OpenJFX is, how to build, where to > download and get release notes, how to contribute, roadmap,... That is what > I believe can perfectly be done in the OpenJFX wiki. It can be the > reference manual > > 2. A set of pages targeting new and existing JavaFX developers, with a > focus on where to download, how to get started (maven/gradle/IDE's), where > to get docs/tutorials and probably with some links to third party libraries > (free/commercial). This is sort of the user manual. > > 3. A highly interactive community site, gathering tweets/blog posts etc, > more or less similar to what James Weaver and Gerrit Grunwald did years > ago. > > For 1: I think this is up to us (OpenJFX committers) to maintain and > improve. It will also benefit the people here. > > For 2: This is the most important thing, I believe. It would be great if a > number of people from this list step up to organize this. It can be a > static website, a github page, or anything else. I don't think this > strictly belongs under OpenJFX (which I consider to be the technical > development umbrella) but it's extremely important to have. > I think this is a perfect opportunity for people and companies who want to > get more active in JavaFX to get involved in. > > For 3: That would be nice, but I think it's too ambitious for now. I would > be happy with a static, simple, clear website. > > - Johan >
