Samuli Seppänen wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to organize an IRC session where we'd discuss the design of the > forthcoming community site. I'd love if as many of you could participate > and share your ideas and viewpoints. Otherwise well probably mess > something up real bad :). I suggest next Monday at 19:00 UTC > (21:00-22:00 EEST, 11AM PST, 2PM EST). I think one hour should suffice. > Let me know privately if you wish to attend. Or if you'd like to, but can't. > > I'm thinking of a loose agenda like this: > > - Gather as many requirements as possible (what the site > must/should/could do) > - Select a potential list of applications to use (e.g. wiki, forums) for > further analysis > > I've already gathered some requirements here: > > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4B3CB244.2080305%40openvpn.net&forum_name=openvpn-devel > > I think a simple Wiki-based site with other integrated components > _might_ be the least bad solution. Something along these lines: > > http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org > > Initially we wanted to have hosting for OpenVPN-related projects. For > this reason I looked at s.c. "Forge" applications > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_%28software%29), but they seem too > focused on hosting separate projects, rather than building a common > (cross-project) collaborative environment. So they're not a good overall > solutions. At first it may be best to just "publish" OpenVPN-related > projects along these lines: > > http://exchange.nagios.org/ > > In any case the site will end up being a complex jigsaw puzzle. What do > you think? > > A small clarification... the meeting is on Monday January 11th at 19:00 UTC. A few people are already attending. If you're unsure of the local time, you can use a timezone converter like this:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html -- Samuli Seppänen Community Manager OpenVPN Technologies, Inc irc freenode net: mattock twitter com: samuli_openvpn
