On March 23, 2003 03:28 pm, Jeremy White wrote: > Pronouncing something to be true does not make it so.
Correct. Also, refusing to accept evidence, and invoking irrelevant differences doesn't make it false either. :) > Having a 'fresh' section with news is a common practice, > yes. Having *more than one* is extremely rare. Of your 5 > examples, only Gnome and KDE have that. All this is irrelevant of course -- I've asked you to produce those important projects that don't have a "Latest News". Some may also have a synthesis publication, but they all have a news section. Ohh... I've had too much fun arguing this :) It was all in good fun, I'll stop here. <g> > I enjoy sparring with you, Dimi (and yes, I do > it with a smile, so no offense taken or intented <grin>; it'd be nicer > to do it over a beer, but then that's the Wineconf issue). Indeed. And the same goes here -- I do get caught in the discussion easily, but I don't take thing personally :) Here's for a virtual handshake! > Brian has told me off list that he'd be willing to be the > collective PR person (i.e. take in announcements and such) > and post them more frequently (he already collates more than > once a week). Brain is The Man! We do need a PR person, the time for 0.9/1.0 is approaching, as such we need press releases, etc. > However, to do that, he needs some tools. > He has trouble with his CVS connection, so he has requested > that someone build him a web page where he can enter news items > that go into the WWN. It seems fair. > So, here is the call for a volunteer: someone work with Brian > to help him get WWN stuff committed to CVS, a tool to let folks > submit entries for annoucncing, and a tool > to commit entries more rapidly than he does, and give Jer a tool > to scrape the XML and craft an announcements section. For starters, how about: -- tool for submitting announcments: email to the editor (Brian) -- tool for committing announcments: a non-public web page -- tool for scraping XML: will produce the XML needed to render the Announcement box. He can then use this to render the HTML for the box. I have basic design in mind, simple and elegant (:P), I just need a bit of help with the PHP side of things (very simple stuff), as I have 0 experience with it. So I guess I volunteer... -- Dimi.