On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:47:51 +0800, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: > Jay Vaughan wrote: >>> This stood out for me "The tangled pile of mostly outdated and >>> incomplete documentation at the OpenMoko wiki..." Is this an accurate >>> evaluation of the wiki ? If so, what can we do to fix it up, how do we >>> identify old content and schedule it for updating? >> >> >> I think, personally, its time for a 3rd-party site not related to >> OpenMoko to pick up the slack here. So much stuff happens too quickly >> for people who /should/ be updating the wiki to feel like its >> productive to do so .. >> >> What I would like to see is something like an "mokofanboix.org" website >> come up that has the following: >> >> - Daily blog news akin to the good ol' slashdot, of news from the >> openmoko scene, gleaned from careful inspection of the mailing lists, >> of IRC, of the codebase, of code delta's, etc. >> >> - Public free Repository of all the latest and greatest 'cool apps' >> found for OpenMoko >> >> - Public forum for discussion of the news. >> >> This is, of course, sorta what we've got with things like >> planet.openmoko.org (which I check daily), combined with the Scaredycat >> repo's and other such things, but .. for newcomers .. I don't think >> any of this is as easily approachable as it would be if it were all put >> under a single umbrella that is a bit more of an 'openmoko pop culture' >> site than what we've got right now .. > > Jay > > These are all great ideas and would be very helpful for us. We are a > small company. And really try to focus all we can on our products. > Community help to make these more approachable is something that would > make us all very grateful. > > Let me know if there is anything specific you think we (Openmoko) could > do to help get this all started. > > -Sean
At this point it seems to me there are 2 approaches: 1) The preferred would be to develop the wiki such that members can "set it up" themselves. 2) Have a 3rd-party site per Jay's suggestion that accomplishes that. I have the resources to set up such a site, but I definitely do not want to do anything counter-productive. I would really like to see OM do what they can as I prefer a "one-stop solution" as opposed to having to visit numerous sites to find solutions. As an example, I have a Nokia N770, and I found the maemo.org site rather well organized for finding solutions, as well as third-party apps. I'm only mentioning it as a possible guide. Respectfully, Curtis Vaughan (no relation to Jay - I don't think....) _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
