-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Shirkey wrote: > Robin Gareus wrote: >> >>>> * http://lau.linuxaudio.org and http://quicktoots.linuxaudio.org/ >>>> probably remain as is. There are a lot of hidden resources there! - >>>> Maybe some minor updates on the front-page. point to the wiki or >>>> portal. >>>> >>> Ah yes, the fragmentation. _Hidden_ resources are great for Indiana >>> Jones style explorers, I guess? ;) >>> I would rather drop old material to have a chance of introducing >>> something structured, where a newcomer would know where to start and had >>> a chance of finding stuff without using a pit lamp. >>> >> >> Well, we won't delete anything ;) We can mark it as "outdated" (or move >> it to legacy.linuxaudio.org) and encourage Mr Jones to tag/link >> interesting resource there from the wiki. Content that's worth updating >> can be refreshed or imported.. >> > da, da,da, daaaa.... > > Are these are the subdomains that you are referring to? > > http://lau.linuxaudio.org > http://lowlatency.linuxaudio.org > http://quicktoots.linuxaudio.org >
Are you Mr. Jones junior or senior? ;) > They are all linked to from the portal page and have fairly simple > structures. I think Thosten was not only referring to TOC article structure but also to web-2.0 semantic structures, cross-referencing and finding information. > lau. > > - This page was designed to be very simple and provide a non threatening > or overwhelming way in for non technical uses or n00bs. If someone has > suggestions for how to make it even easier for the target reader then > please let me know. I'll see if I can find some time to add a more > obvious link to linuxaudio.org throughout all the documents. Probably > just add a new header/footer, parse the html before loading the page and > dump it into a div. Can't be bothered reworking all the existing pages. IMHO the lau front-page is just as helpful and confusing for newbies as http://apps.linuxaudio.org/ - Instead of re-working existing pages they could gradually be migrated into a wiki. (personally I like the http://ubuntustudio.org/ website - but not ubuntu itself) > lowlatency. > > - If anyone has a suggestion for making the lowlatency page more user > friendly then please let me know. I'm more than happy to fine tune it. > The last time anyone bothered to make a suggestion was at least two > years ago. I guess that means the existing page either provides all the > necessary information or else no one uses it. Probably the latter > because the information has already been assimilated by several distro > tutorials and wikis. It's a very informative easily printable page that makes a nice read; but I don't think a single page justifies for a virtual-host; besides you should get it through http://validator.w3.org/ and adding a license on how to reproduce lowlatency.linuxaudio.org would be nice. is this public-domain? GFDL? CC? In the long run the content could be maintained in a wiki (as long as you continue to take input, you're be welcome to remain the sole maintainer if you like). Other wiki-editors could supplement it with distribution-specific information (back-linking to you) or you can merge-in content. The current static page does not provide for pingbacks or anything. FWIW, we're planning to publish-subscribe rt.wiki.kernel.org wiki.linuxmusicians.com and wiki.linuxaudio.org early 2009 - Federating social networks is beyond the scope of this discussion; I'll gladly hook you up if you're interested. > I'll start a new thread to get a round up on the latest knowledge to be > added to the page. > > One thing that might be useful is an rss feed with the latest updates. > Not sure exactly how it should be managed though... It may also distract > attention from the list/s which is where a lot of announcements are > currently made. Not distracting at all: The email lists shall remain central to linuxaudio.org. We think that we can and should do better, supporting the community with web services and representation - having a common style among the *.linuxaudio.org vhosts should not limited to web-design but extend to collaboration techniques. Discussion here will provide content for the web. It should be easy to copy/paste content over to eg. http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/lowlatency and 301 redirect lowlatency.linuxaudio.org there. You'll get a RSS and Atom feed for free. > quicktoots. > > - The basic design and layout of the quicktoots is not going to change > anytime soon. However if someone wants to submit a new tutorial the > space is always open. Of course if someone also wants to make a new skin > then that would be nice too. It's easy to add code for several skins to > be displayed randomly or otherwise. I'd suggest to collaborate with http://flossmanuals.net/ and http://www.digitalartistshandbook.org/ Thorsten is right in saying that we should not keep out-of-date information and drop old material. We have more urgent issues on linuxaudio.org than lau and quicktoots. Cheers! robin PS. We're currently working on the LAC2009 site; due an announcement later today. I've just updated apache/php/xcache and will be revisiting apps, wiki and www with Holger and Burkhard. After this iteration we'll make a call for designers. - please help out if you can. The CSS theme and "printable-version" of the wiki may get fixed in the next weeks until a redesign happens. If no one else does it: It'll be a snowy weekend task for me in December. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkF59EACgkQeVUk8U+VK0KTJwCfX6l8TGne5REXhiu6D8wg1489 Z5wAoLYZ8ltFh5De3J0Y4ZmWLrGzRPel =YdCc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
