I obviously don't know what Miguel's timeline is for this suggestion, but I'd like to see the whole thing as ASP.NET running on Mono, even if it took longer. Not only would it serve as a showcase for Mono, but it could also be a good test case (not the production one, mind you, but the development image), to test the implementation of Mono's features and ensure they continue to work.
My $.02... -Matt Ryan Software Engineer Linux/ZEN Developer Champion Worldwide Developer Support Novell, Inc., the leading provider of information solutions http://www.novell.com >>> Aaron Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1/9/2004 2:05:06 PM >>> Hello all, Miguel mentioned to me that we ought to update go-mono.net at some point. While at first the major site audience was people who wanted to contribute to Mono as a platform, now we have more kinds of people that we need to pay attention to: * People contributing to the Mono platform * C# developers who want to use Mono, ASP.NET, gtk#, and so forth, but don't want to contribute to the platform * Power-users who want to use things written in C#, but aren't developers. I think two or three things we can do. The easiest is a simple content update, maybe with some re-organization. We'll make sure that info on use and installation is easy to find, clean up the directory structure into a few primary sections: news/about/general, platform development, programming with C#/Mono, and using Mono/C# software. This would be relatively simple but wouldn't solve any major structural issues with the site. A more serious update would involve redoing the left-hand navigation and creating a real directory structure. Ideally, we should have a menu system that expands as you go down (see www.ximian.com), rather than a long list of items on the left side of the page. This would be great, but I probably don't have the autoconf/make/etc. skills to rewrite the site scripts. Most ambitious would be to put the site entirely into ASP.NET, making it a showcase for Mono software. This would probably mean a ground-up redesign, and might as well include a new look to emphasize the difference. That would be really cool. I have no idea how advisable that is, though-- it could be a long project that would require resources better spent on developing mono and software for it. a. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
