11 Apr
2008
11 Apr
'08
11:26 p.m.
I certainly agree some consolidation could be a good thing. What I am
wondering about though, is the possibility of truly using the linuxaudio.org
as a portal. In order to do this I think several things would be needed
from my standpoint....
See http://portal.linuxaudio.org <http://portal.linuxaudio.org/>
1. A centralized basic information about all applications (wiki already in
existance, good start)
http://apps.linuxaudio.org <http://apps.linuxaudio.org/> has all apps that
have been a part of Dave's website. They can be also sorted according to
jack/ladspa/whatever support and entries are open to community
contributions. There were a number of people here very vocal how they would
not contribute to a wiki that was password protected. Well, it hasn been
open access since its introduction little over a year ago, yet we had little
or no contributions since. It would be nice if we would be as determined
about our contributions as we are about our preferences, no?
2. A centralized repository of general linux audio information(ie What is
realtime, why/when should you use it, FAQs etc.)
http://lowlatency.linuxaudio.org/ (yes, it could be much better, volunteers
are always welcome)
3. A centralized place to go for announcements from all projects at once...
http://lists.linuxaudio.org <http://lists.linuxaudio.org/>
we are hoping to also implement forum.linuxaudio.org
- This would likely entail using a RSS feeds for all members of the
linuxaudio consortium, and subscribing to those feeds to be displayed on the
news page. I am sure there is a better way, but this is what sticks out to
me at the moment, filtering of the announcements might be necessary. I
suppose another option would be to utilize the linux-audio-announce mailing
list instead so as to have a natural filter preventing things like general
informational posts.
Linuxaudio.org main page has RSS feeds.
4. I am not against a centralized forum either, however I think app specific
forums and websites are still a good thing, which leads to the next point
couple of points...
5. Tight integration between all of the above. On the wiki we have links to
the forums for those peices of software, or from the FAQ/Info sections links
to the forums, or from the Forums to the wikis, with the news announcements
a link to the wiki for the software the announcement is about, etc.
This is in progress but again, most of the work you've seen so far has been
the fruit of maybe half-dozen people including myself.
6. A single login for linuxaudio... And I don't just mean linuxaudio.org,
but all member projects if possible. This is the one most difficult to
implement, and probably most contreversial, but would allay some of the
problems that Dave and others have, which is having to sign up for hundreds
of forums with logins to remember etc. Having one place to go for that
would be great. This could tie into the centralized forums, by having
direct links to each of the projects individual forums, if applicable, and
auto-login. OpenID is making good strides in this area, but as I mentioned
I do expect this to be the most contreversial of my suggestions I suppose,
along with still being the most difficult to implement.
See above. Some users complain about having to log in so we left it open for
the sake of greatest possible target audience.
Best wishes,
ico
But the goal with these would be to provide a single portal, from which you
can get all levels of help by utilizing all the availiable resources out
there.
Seablade