Some rant + possible way out...
On Friday, 7 בNovember 2008, Rami Rosen wrote:
> 2) Slides for today IPv6 lecture are available in tuxology web site
> are here:
> http://tuxology.net/lectures/ipv6-in-the-linux-kernel/
Thanks, but since tuxology choose to store the slides
in scribd, i encountered some... hurdles:
1. All content handling is based on flash. Many of my
hosts don't have flash installed. Even simple wget
is banned that way.
2. After searching the page, I found a "direct" link
(albeit with a horribly encoded url), only to be
redirected to a login screen.
Should our community content be held hostage behind some
company login requirements?
3. The last too items also mean we cannot practically
link directly to these presentations. As a result their
chance to be indexed and found by search engines
are nil (yes, I know scribd front pages with the
document titles are indexed -- so what? what about the full text?)
This unnecessarily lowers the long term value of this content.
Can't we afford hosting our own community presentations?
OK, let's get practical:
* If Herzelinux/tuxology is missing some storage/hosting options,
I suggest giving them some space on one of our community servers.
* Nothing fancy is called for -- even a single directory on Hamakor
server for all their stuff, accessible via http/ftp is better then
the current, shamefull situation.
* Shachar, Gilad, can something as minimal as this be coordinated?
What do you say?
TIA, I'm anxious to read Rami's updated slides...
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