Hi again, Any thoughts on this ? Particularly, Rob, do you agree to move some important content to a website (and, using DITA, making available to any document).
I feel if we add a "marketing layer" around our work, we may get jalv2, jallib & friends one step further... Please advise ! (Rob, and all of you of course) Cheers, Seb 2009/10/28 Sebastien Lelong <[email protected]> > Actually, thet fact this page looks beautiful was kind of a joke. I mostly > agree with you: content is more important than how it looks. But does this > mean how it looks isn't important ? I'm sure you'd say "no, it's important > too". > > As I understand, you don't think it's a priority, and there are more urgent > things. Could you list some of them ? I can only see this servo controller > :) We don't sell books, we don't sell anything in the sense of money, but we > do sell our own dog food, and I think we're doing this very poorly. This has > been confirmed by some users' feedback recently. > > That's why we need to organize documentation (doing this on jalliblog was a > bad idea -- of mine :(), that's why we need to centralize content on a > website. And that website needs to be beautiful, it must be pleasant to > visit it, so appearance serves content ! > > Now few more words about JSG to DITA conversion. If JSG is DITAfied (...), > we'll be able to put in any books, any webpages, etc... That's mainly why I > would like to DITAfy (...) it. The "cerise sur le gâteau" is this nice > webpage, that advertises how we write things, how normalized is our work, > etc... A buildbot page will follow, as DITA & JAPP pages. This is about > development, but it shows users how we develop, with which tools, where we > go, etc... This has to be showned on a dedicated website, not just hide on a > crappy google code wiki page. > > Now I understand you'd still like to see this page on GC. I'll look for a > way to convert DITA to GC wiki syntax (probably with an intermediary). > > > Cheers, > Seb > > > 2009/10/28 Rob Hamerling <[email protected]> > >> >> >> Hi Seb, >> >> Sebastien Lelong wrote: >> > Here's a first attempt: >> > >> > http://justanotherlanguage.org/content/jsg >> >> It look beautifuls indeed (not surprisingly!). >> >> > (Rob, see how it shines ! Don't you think our JSG deserves a nice >> > website like this ? :)) >> >> Well, of course you can be proud of the result, but ... >> >> To me the contents of a book is much more valuable than the appearance. >> I agree that a nice appearance of a book will be of influence on the >> selling results in a book shop, but we are not selling books. JSG is >> mandatory literature for a Jallib developer, so its appearance is not so >> important. And there are more urgent things (than this discussion!). >> >> Regards, Rob. >> >> -- >> Rob Hamerling, Vianen, NL (http://www.robh.nl/) >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Sébastien Lelong > http://www.sirloon.net > http://sirbot.org > -- Sébastien Lelong http://www.sirloon.net http://sirbot.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" 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/jallib?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
