25 Feb
2011
25 Feb
'11
7:32 p.m.
2011/2/23 Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine(a)gmail.com>om>:
Now, here is why rss, email et al don't do a good
work enough: they
don't provide perspective and they don't expose connections between
people right away. I've served several years as social hub for free
graphics software developers and I can tell you that while email and
Jabber and IRC and whatnot, as well as F2F meetings at LGM, LAC etc
are the ultimate communication means, it's very important to stay
tuned to all things happening. For same reason I woudn't limit such a
dream service to audio developers, because audio is related to video
(audio effects in NLE, JACK compatibility), and video is related to
things like static graphics and video drivers (likewise audio is
related to kernel, ALSA and FFADO), and so it all is intertwined.
That is more or less the point IMO. Yet I see the two sides of the
coin: on one side people don't blog about what they are doing since a.
it's too demanding (here micro-blogging kind of things would help) and
b. if what they did is not yet in a presentable state they won't talk
about it. I think it would be better to have some kind of very
informal service instead for "internal use only" (with this I don't
mean it shouldn't be public).
The main problem from another developer's perspective however is
different: I want to know who is working on what, so I don't really
need an "activity stream", but rather something that is organized in
some way (timestamps may help however). E.g., I want to know who is
working on LV2 hosts, who is working on audio programming languages,
etc. It would be cool if a search could be done on a tag-basis, so to
avoid useless hierarchies. The two things (activity stream and
"organized content", let's say) are not mutually exclusive, yet I
don't know of any such service.
Coming back to earth, I think a wiki would be fine if people get
involved... but they won't, I'm pretty sure... unless it gets big
enough (good night!)
(Jabber/XMPP is a case apart, I think it is a superior kind of thing,
since it can be quite easily integrated into whatever service you may
offer... but this is all another story?).
AFAIK, Linux.com was supposed to become a kind of
social service.
Maybe it's worth investigating what their plans are.
Didn't know about it, that would be great (or maybe not?)
Stefano
P.S.: unanimous consent and/or LAD endorsement is not needed to start
doing something like this, but at the moment I have other
priorities... I was just hoping that it could inspire/motivate
somebody else. At least the idea stands here in the ml archives as a
form of minuting (recursively, with such a service the idea would
always be there :-P)