2011/2/23 Alexandre Prokoudine <[email protected]>: > 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. I've served several years as social hub for free > graphics software developers and I can tell you that while email and > Jabber and IRC and whatnot, as well as F2F meetings at LGM, LAC etc > are the ultimate communication means, it's very important to stay > tuned to all things happening. For same reason I woudn't limit such a > dream service to audio developers, because audio is related to video > (audio effects in NLE, JACK compatibility), and video is related to > things like static graphics and video drivers (likewise audio is > related to kernel, ALSA and FFADO), and so it all is intertwined.
That is more or less the point IMO. Yet I see the two sides of the coin: on one side people don't blog about what they are doing since a. it's too demanding (here micro-blogging kind of things would help) and b. if what they did is not yet in a presentable state they won't talk about it. I think it would be better to have some kind of very informal service instead for "internal use only" (with this I don't mean it shouldn't be public). The main problem from another developer's perspective however is different: I want to know who is working on what, so I don't really need an "activity stream", but rather something that is organized in some way (timestamps may help however). E.g., I want to know who is working on LV2 hosts, who is working on audio programming languages, etc. It would be cool if a search could be done on a tag-basis, so to avoid useless hierarchies. The two things (activity stream and "organized content", let's say) are not mutually exclusive, yet I don't know of any such service. Coming back to earth, I think a wiki would be fine if people get involved... but they won't, I'm pretty sure... unless it gets big enough (good night!) (Jabber/XMPP is a case apart, I think it is a superior kind of thing, since it can be quite easily integrated into whatever service you may offer... but this is all another story?). > AFAIK, Linux.com was supposed to become a kind of social service. > Maybe it's worth investigating what their plans are. Didn't know about it, that would be great (or maybe not?) Stefano P.S.: unanimous consent and/or LAD endorsement is not needed to start doing something like this, but at the moment I have other priorities... I was just hoping that it could inspire/motivate somebody else. At least the idea stands here in the ml archives as a form of minuting (recursively, with such a service the idea would always be there :-P) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
