Hey Jeff! Thanks for the suggestion. I just looked into Google Sites a bit and it indeed looks quite promising. I think I'll ask one of our energetic students to consider putting together something there to see if it might address some of the needs for collaboration and sharing - it certainly solves a lot of the problems you alluded to with domains, CMS et cetera. Another option would be to set up a Moodle site at a friendly University somewhere. Moodle is pretty easy to use, and has layers of authoring privilege but it's more set up as an instructional thing than a document management system. Google Sites, if it is human-engineered like others of Google's projects (Google +, Sketchup, gmail, etc.) oughta be pretty easy to learn. I'm assuming it would support SVG? That's one of the hassles with Moodle -it only does SVG if one uses the <embed> tag, which of course raises accessibility concerns, and I suspect we'd like this to be an outward looking site as well as a community site. Though I must say that SVG/SMIL looks very nice in the midst of an otherwise HTML-esque sort of thingy.
Among the collaborations I would imagine being hosted there would be (and please chime in with others that I know people have mentioned): . A place for flags of the world - there are too many for one person to make them all . A place for work with SVG textures (naturalistic scene generation with filters) . Clever gadgets and machines made with SMIL . Emoji . SVG widgets - progress bars, clocks, color pickers, zoom and pan interfaces, sliders, scrollbars, etc. . Examples using <replicate> . Simulated 3D effects (like cylindrical rotation) . A contest to see who can introject the most content-appropriate SMIL into Wikipedia . Elegantly scripted things . Things that are elegantly marked up . Identifying frequently used icons for which the code could be improved (like the HTML5 logo or the uncopyright symbol) and then fixing them . Semantic primitives (like emoji only systematically collected rather than whimsically) . Collecting use cases for new SVG features . Collecting acid tests (do we prefer the name "torture tests" now that acid has been neutralized by some sort of alkaline poisoning?) - Jeff I recall that you had gathered a lot of these somewhere? . Links to nice examples If it were all wiki-like then all editors could improve any parts of it and if certain pages languish out of neglect it wouldn't have to prevent other pages from being vital and interesting. It certainly looks like it would be less hassle than the Drupal thing that you and Rob Russell wrestled with a few years back. Maybe if we get something set up, we can let the members of the SVG IG know and perhaps even sanction the activity there? Might others opine? Cheers David From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeff Schiller Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 3:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [svg-developers] svg wiki space On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:12 PM, David Dailey <[email protected] <mailto:ddailey%40zoominternet.net> >wrote: > ** > > > I know some of you may have tired of this discussion from the last time it > emerged, but perhaps technologies have changed in the past two years. Might > there be some wiki-ish space that the SVG community could camp in and set > up > tents and exhibits and tables with wares and perhaps the occasional live > entertainment, and which would leave legacy footprints with semi-permanent > URL's? > > At the risk of sounding like a mindless Google drone, has anyone ever tried out Google Sites <http://sites.google.com/>? In combination with Google Docs, Google Groups, Google+ there are a lot of options for collaboration, discussion and sharing. Of course there are lots of other options too, but it seems like no one has the energy to get the domain, host a site, maintain CMS software, etc. Regards, Jeff [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [email protected] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
