On 2/23/11, Philipp Überbacher wrote: >> > If it needs a social networking thing for some reason, maybe diaspora >> > will do the trick? With diaspora chances are better that someone will >> > write a good user interface of some sort. >> >> Yes, diaspora is much closer to what's required. > > But the question is whether the whole writing stuff is necessary and > adds something. Social networks are general purpose, not special > purpose. Writing stuff there is additional effort.
It's a valid concern. Updating status of projects is the last thing developers usually do. OTOH, twitting/denting about what they are up to is a very, very usual thing, because these services make it so easy to share and are rather tuned for sharing what's important in very little time (140 symbols limit). So it's a question of implementation. In other words: if you can't do something with few clicks, it won't work :) >> Yes, a good idea IMO would be a service on top of existing service >> like github, twitter etc. They all expose API after all, no? > > Each of those will be used by some people at most, so do you want to tie > them all together? Basing everything on a single service such as github > will force people to choose between exclusion or adoption of said > service, a really bad idea. I wouldn't dream of basing on a single service. At the very least Gitorious and Bitbucket have to be considered as well. >> Now, here is why rss, email et al don't do a good work enough: they >> don't provide perspective and they don't expose connections between >> people right away. > > There could be a catch-all mailinglist. For rss and the likes, there > are aggregators like planet (which is in use already, for example: > http://planet.linuxaudio.org/ [but includes stuff like Traktor...]) You mean Create Digital Music's feed? Personally I find CDM a great resource for broadening horizons. Especially since Peter Kirn does quite a bit of PR for Ardour, not mentioning their work on open source hardware. I'd hate to see the community closed to things happening outside it. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
