An idea - make dlang.org a fundation

2013-06-24 Thread QAston
This may be completely ridiculous - I'm a newcomer - please destroy me gently. So, the idea is to make dlang.org a fundation. Here are some possible benefits of doing this: -You get more people to "own" the language and therefore seriously care about it's future development. --Two people are

Re: An idea - make dlang.org a fundation

2013-06-25 Thread QAston
On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 04:34:02 UTC, QAston wrote: This may be completely ridiculous - I'm a newcomer - please destroy me gently. So, the idea is to make dlang.org a fundation. Here are some possible benefits of doing this: -You get more people to "own" the language and therefore serious

Re: An idea - make dlang.org a fundation

2013-06-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 6/24/13 9:34 PM, QAston wrote: This may be completely ridiculous - I'm a newcomer - please destroy me gently. So, the idea is to make dlang.org a fundation. That would be nice, and I discussed it with Walter prior to DConf 2013. We temporarily concluded that the overheads and headaches wou

Re: An idea - make dlang.org a fundation

2013-06-25 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-06-25 06:34, QAston wrote: ---Get a real webdesigner involved I would say, as long as the web site is written in ddoc, no real web designer will be interested. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: An idea - make dlang.org a fundation

2013-06-25 Thread Walter Bright
On 6/25/2013 1:09 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2013-06-25 06:34, QAston wrote: ---Get a real webdesigner involved I would say, as long as the web site is written in ddoc, no real web designer will be interested. The dconf.org website was done by a real web designer who was paid real money,

Re: An idea - make dlang.org a fundation

2013-06-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 6/25/13 1:16 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/25/2013 1:09 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2013-06-25 06:34, QAston wrote: ---Get a real webdesigner involved I would say, as long as the web site is written in ddoc, no real web designer will be interested. The dconf.org website was done by a r

Re: An idea - make dlang.org a fundation

2013-06-25 Thread Walter Bright
On 6/25/2013 1:19 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/25/13 1:16 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/25/2013 1:09 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2013-06-25 06:34, QAston wrote: ---Get a real webdesigner involved I would say, as long as the web site is written in ddoc, no real web designer will be i

Re: An idea - make dlang.org a fundation

2013-06-25 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 20:09:46 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I would say, as long as the web site is written in ddoc, no real web designer will be interested. For my work sites, I often don't give the designer access to the html at all. They have one of two options: make it work with pure

Re: An idea - make dlang.org a fundation

2013-06-25 Thread Aleksandar Ruzicic
On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 20:09:46 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2013-06-25 06:34, QAston wrote: ---Get a real webdesigner involved I would say, as long as the web site is written in ddoc, no real web designer will be interested. There is no need for designer to know what DDOC is. For th

Re: An idea - make dlang.org a fundation

2013-06-26 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-06-25 22:19, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Truth be told the designer delivered HTML, which we converted to DDoc. Ok, I see that "web designer" was properly not the correct word(s). "Web developer" is perhaps better. The one who builds the final format. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: An idea - make dlang.org a fundation

2013-06-26 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-06-25 23:45, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: For my work sites, I often don't give the designer access to the html at all. They have one of two options: make it work with pure css, or send me an image of what it is supposed to look like, and I'll take it from there. "web designer" was properly no

Re: An idea - make dlang.org a fundation

2013-06-26 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-06-26 00:55, Aleksandar Ruzicic wrote: There is no need for designer to know what DDOC is. For the past few years I have worked with many designers which had only basic knowledge about HTML and even less about CSS (most of them don't know anything about JavaScript but they "know jQuery a

Re: An idea - make dlang.org a fundation

2013-06-26 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 10:18:58 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: that you're talking about the graphical designer I was talking about the one implementing the design, web developer/frontend developer or what to call it. Ah yes. Still though, I don't think ddoc is that big of a deal, especial

Re: An idea - make dlang.org a fundation

2013-06-27 Thread ixid
-You could start taking donations and hire some people to work on D. This doesn't work as it's a volunteer project. Why should someone get paid when others give their time for free? It would create conflict while being a less effective application of funds, D already gets more than one or two

Re: An idea - make dlang.org a fundation

2013-06-27 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 6/27/13, ixid wrote: >>-You could start taking donations and hire some people to work on > A better use of the money is another D conference which has > been a huge success and generated both ideas and much greater > interest and exposure for D. Yes, and some better glue for the microphones. :

Re: An idea - make dlang.org a fundation

2013-06-27 Thread John Colvin
On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 21:39:28 UTC, ixid wrote: -You could start taking donations and hire some people to work on D. This doesn't work as it's a volunteer project. Why should someone get paid when others give their time for free? It would create conflict while being a less effective ap