Hi Dan On 04/12/12 11:19, Dan Allen wrote: > Stuart and the AsciiDoc community, > > I'm a big fan of AsciiDoc (thanks to Matthew McCullough for turning me > on to it). I'm interested in continuing to promote it with the goal of > improving documentation (software or otherwise) across the globe. > > I recently gave a presentation on AsciiDoc [1] (composed from AsciiDoc) > at RWX 2012 which I'd like to share. It's rendered using dzslides, an > awesome HTML5-based presentation framework. I developed a custom backend > to AsciiDoc to generate the HTML5 and linked assets that dzslides > requires [2]. > > I plan to keep this talk in my repertoire for the 2013 conference season. > > ...on to my main point: > > Since I anticipate a groundswell of adoption for AsciiDoc in the near > future (or at least I hope so), I reserved the domain names asciidoc.org > and asciidoc.info in order to donate them to project. The motivation for > reserving the domains was two-fold. First, to prevent the domains from > being snatched up and used for an unrelated purpose and, second, to make > it easier for people to find the project page (methods.co.nz is sort of > hard to remember ;)) > > For now, I have setup a 301 redirect on each domain to point them to the > current AsciiDoc project page. > > I'm happy to manage the domains on behalf of the project, which Stuart > is in support of. If you have other ideas about how to manage the > domains as a group, I'm certainly open to handling them another way. > Feedback welcome.
Thank you for this generous offer, I'd love to move AsciiDoc to it's own domain, it's been hanging off my site to long -- just a time and resources issue on my part. It's well past time AsciiDoc had it's own domain. I would prefer someone else/others to manage the domains, Dan's the obvious choice, but this is something the community needs to address (I don't know how this sort of stuff is done, but we don't want to lose control the domain names in the future). I'm stretched to thin to take anything else on at the moment (I've been AWOL from the discussion list for a while now, but will get back to it hopefully soon :-) To get the ball rolling I can change the docs and the website content to point to asciidoc.org. Longer term I'd like to offload the website administration to others -- shouldn't be to onerous the website itself is in the repo and the AsciiDoc AAP build scripts rebuild and upload the website. Cheers, Stuart PS: If you haven't already done so take a look at Dan's slide-show, I think you'll be impressed. > > I'm honored to be a part of the vision to transform documentation. We > constantly hear that documentation is weakest leg of software--open > source software in particular. There's no shortage of passion in many of > the projects, which points to the fact that a *huge* barrier must exist > that prevents documentation from being written. AsciiDoc has proven to > allow the gates in your mind to open and the words pour into the editor. > > It quickly became apparent to me that the value in AsciiDoc was more > than just a terse syntax, but the capability to preserve the semantics > of the document (and to promote DRY). Before using AsciiDoc, I used > Textile and Markdown extensively and that's how I was able to recognize > that AsciiDoc stood out. It's time to drop the angled brackets, but in > doing so we don't want to lose the semantics. AsciiDoc strikes that balance. > > Cheers, > > Dan Allen > http://google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen > > [1] http://mojavelinux.github.com/decks/asciidoc-with-pleasure > <http://mojavelinux.github.com/decks/asciidoc-with-pleasure/> > [2] https://github.com/mojavelinux/asciidoc-dzslides-backend > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "asciidoc" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/asciidoc/-/XC0g4XEIkCEJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
