Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-09-23 Thread Quiliro Ordóñez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El 04/07/13 21:07, Kẏra escribió: > Our Code of Conduct does say that participants should advocate freedom over > openness. We have not had any situations where admins have had to step in. Yes we have. I don't remember the specifics but I remember i

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-08-10 Thread A. Mani
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote: > From the technical perspective, what we need is to make GDN a tool to > introduce new people to GNU projects so they can start contributing the > GNU way in a straightforward fashion to improve that very documentation > and to d

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-08-09 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:18:53 +1000 Steven Hamilton wrote: > . . . > Likewise, hosting it anywhere other than *.gnu.org will also reduce > it's effectiveness. Use libreplanet infrastructure if you like, but > leverage some hosting nouse to mask it under wiki.gnu.org. > "libreplanet" doe

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-13 Thread Brandon Invergo
I'm sorry, I've been a bit preoccupied the past few days so I haven't been as responsive. You guys are coming up with some great ideas here. There is still a discussion going on within the advisory board as well. Hopefully we'll reach a consensus soon! > *** Thank you for the detailed explanation

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-12 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/11/2013 06:16 PM, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote: > > I propose an infrastructure that makes the GNU project a > coordinated community of developers aiming and collaborating for > the same end. That way we can create a true "GNU Developmen

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-11 Thread Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
hellekin writes: > On 07/08/2013 10:24 PM, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote: >> >> I don't know if the analogy of a potential "GNU Developer Network" >> with the existing "Mozilla's Developer's Network" is really fair. >> Mozilla's software is intrinsically related to the web. So they >> use re

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-09 Thread Christopher M. Hobbs
Greetings, all! I'm a new FSF member and while I'm not new to GNU/Linux or software development, I'm definitely new to the GNU way. I wanted to wait a while before replying to this, but I think I can offer some insight as someone who's only recently drank the tasty GNU kool-aide. Many develo

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-09 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/08/2013 10:24 PM, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote: > > I don't know if the analogy of a potential "GNU Developer Network" > with the existing "Mozilla's Developer's Network" is really fair. > Mozilla's software is intrinsically related to th

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-09 Thread Rudolf
The idea isn't to duplicate the documentation but to give a space for adding to the existing documentation in the form of tutorials, tips, snippets, notes on errors in the manual, etc. Take a look at the MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/ That page describes how to developer for Windo

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-09 Thread Rudolf
I think this is the way to go. It isn't difficult to change the naming later on. Notice how Mozilla has made a greater push to make the MDN more useful and they chose not to rename it. They did rebrand another product later on too and that happened easily and very quickly. So the proposal is go wi

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-09 Thread Steven Hamilton
Brandon Invergo writes: > Hi, > > Usrnix writes: > >> I could see this working well for GNU, using GCC as a example following >> the Mozilla networks template we'd have a brief description of what GCC >> is and what it does, followed by an example command for compiling >> something and explanati

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-08 Thread Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
David Gumberg writes: > My original intention when coming up with this idea, was something > similar to Mozilla's Developer's Network. Mozilla does have pages with > tutorials like: https://developer.mozilla.org/ > en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Introduction, but the biggest part of it is > reference.

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-07 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/07/13 23:29, Brandon Invergo wrote:>> OK, one other thing: we decided that the name "GNU Developer Network" > can be a bit confusing, since some people read it and think that it > would be specifically a dev network for official GNU package >

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-07 Thread Brandon Invergo
Hi, Usrnix writes: > I could see this working well for GNU, using GCC as a example following > the Mozilla networks template we'd have a brief description of what GCC > is and what it does, followed by an example command for compiling > something and explanation of what happened, then going on t

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-06 Thread Usrnix
Hi, I think David's idea for a Mozilla Dev Network-like format is great, I've use the MDN a lot in the past for HTML and CSS and each page presents its content in a really understandable way with a brief description followed by an example and explanation of the example followed by explanations for

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-06 Thread David Gumberg
My original intention when coming up with this idea, was something similar to Mozilla's Developer's Network. Mozilla does have pages with tutorials like: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Introduction, but the biggest part of it is reference. Say you type in the search bar an

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-05 Thread Rudolf
The content of developer network would have some pages something similar to what appears on the Fedora, Ubuntu and ArchLinux wikis to some extent? I would recommend a wholesale import of any relevant pages from those wikis or linking out to them because I'm sure there are things related to GNU pro

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-04 Thread Brandon Invergo
Hi Christian, tomsitpr...@gmail.com writes: > I love the Savane codebase and Savannah as a project infrastructure. If it > were > at all possible to accomplish this GDN under Savannah, that would not only be > a > natural match but perhaps encourage GNU coders to move from places like GitHub >

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-04 Thread Brandon Invergo
Hi Rudolf, Rudolf writes: > This definitely sounds doable and might revitalize the GNU standards. Interesting point on revitalizing the standards. If you have any specific comments on that, such as sections that need revising or new information to add, I would recommend bringing them up direc

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-04 Thread Brandon Invergo
hellekin writes: > *** +1 > > I guess you could edit a > http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:GNU/DeveloperNetwork page to > describe what you have in mind, and create one or more badges for wiki > users to advertise their affiliation. Yes, I think that will be a first good step. Before we would

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-04 Thread Brandon Invergo
Hi Kẏra, Kẏra writes: > I think this is a fantastic idea. The best way to do this might be to > contribute all GNU-specific materials to the GNU project group (and > subpages) http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:GNU > > Then general information about free software can be put in the main > namespac

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-04 Thread tomsitprocb
cuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org This definitely sounds doable and might revitalize the GNU standards. The key thing is convincing other GNU developers to contribute if possible. It would be nice to see more developers referring to the coding standards of the gnu project

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-04 Thread Rudolf
This definitely sounds doable and might revitalize the GNU standards. The key thing is convincing other GNU developers to contribute if possible. It would be nice to see more developers referring to the coding standards of the gnu project and striving to become part of the umbrella. On Jul 4, 2013

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-04 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/04/2013 11:07 PM, Kẏra wrote: > > I think this is a fantastic idea. The best way to do this might be > to contribute all GNU-specific materials to the GNU project group > (and subpages) http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:GNU > *** +1 I guess

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-04 Thread Kẏra
On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 22:55 +0200, Brandon Invergo wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I hope this is the right place to bring this up. > > I'm a member of the GNU Advisory Board and we are considering the > possibility of setting up a GNU Developer Network. Developer Networks > can take many forms but in

[libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org

2013-07-04 Thread Brandon Invergo
Hi everyone, I hope this is the right place to bring this up. I'm a member of the GNU Advisory Board and we are considering the possibility of setting up a GNU Developer Network. Developer Networks can take many forms but in general they provide a central place for developers to find documentati