From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYZmT-0005I3-7P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:38:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 374A1E05D7; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:38:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from spore.ath.cx (66-191-143-114.static.roch.mn.charter.com [66.191.143.114]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ADD8E05D7 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:38:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC927590B0 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2008 23:38:30 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 23:38:30 -0500 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Brainstorm ! Message-ID: <20080309233830.01dfbd2f@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <47D09B25.8040601@xaerolimit.net> References: <86mypdlzku.fsf@mash.doux> <47D00C87.5090500@buanzo.com.ar> <47D00DE7.1040402@ophidian.homeip.net> <200803061632.53833.cypherstrong@gmail.com> <47D014DA.7050502@buanzo.com.ar> <86lk4v5wx1.fsf@mash.doux> <47D070BE.8070308@buanzo.com.ar> <350fc7cf0803061437x1d44df5bpa72dd294e738ea5d@mail.gmail.com> <86tzjj4fz8.fsf@mash.doux> <1204851499.18853.41.camel@orpheus> <47D09B25.8040601@xaerolimit.net> Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 69297a42-4900-4c61-9c33-815b666c15d7 X-Archives-Hash: f2c920defa1f010327b61b92c127eff7 On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:32:21 -0500 Chris Brennan wrote: > One other thing that may be good, is someone to donate resources if > need be to get the project off the ground. Us doing all the technical > footwork, means very little if there is no practical application in > place, something tangible to look at and evaluate. > > If we're going to commit to this, then we may as well go as far as we > can with it, till it looks so impressive and awe-inspiring that we > can't help but be flocked to, like gentoo-wiki and the forums. When I > help new users into the world of Linux and Gentoo, I tell them, there > are three things you should book mark, and visit frequently, > gentoo.com, gentoo-wiki.com and forums.gentoo.org, why shouldn't this > be any different. Friends, I write custom database-driven websites like this one professionally, and there is absolutely no reason that, if I had just a little help coding the thing, we couldn't turn something like this into a reality. If anyone is interested in, and has the resources necessary to, make this happen, please speak up. The project might to very well if we had someone to do a little web design, someone to write a little PHP, and whoever else wanted to help, besides myself. Furthermore, it's possible we can simply have the code that runs on ubuntu's site. I have sent a mail[1] to the webmasters of ubuntu.com, hoping it will be directed to the proper feedback channels. I know hosting won't be a problem; I'm sure the gentoo web people would stick it on a box somewhere, or, failing that, give us a subdomain to work with on our own servers. I think, personally, that we should leave bugs.gentoo.org alone on this one. The devs are likely to think 'wouldn't it be nice if we had this neat web page ... ' doesn't count as a feature enhancement, but rather a _feature_. To that end, I started a gentoo forums post[2] about the topic instead. Make sure to speak up if you want to help! Thanks for reading. [1] email to webmaster@{ubuntu,canonical}.com > My attention has recently been drawn to brainstorm.ubuntu.com. What > an excellent way to 'socialize' user ideas and feedback! The site > got a bit of attention on the gentoo-users mailing list, and the > general feeling was that such a site would be greatly beneficial to > the community here in gentoo as well. > > Would you be amenable to the idea of granting us permission to use the > site engine? > > Thank you for your time, > > Dan Farrell [2] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-673136.html -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list