Re: [LAD] linuxaudio.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thorsten Wilms wrote: IMHO restructuring linuxaudio.org (not only the website) affects linux-audio-users as well as anyone here, but you're right of course. We'll add an open PR position to linuxaudio.org jobs listing. (I did not include linux-audio-announce in the email. There will separate announcements: pending how the wiki performs in beta-test and Ico keeping up with updating the consortium site.) Well, we have lots of "members" - Half of which have their own ALSA-settings or JACK-info page. Generally open-source software is an extreme balance act between communism and individual contributions. The linuxaudio website does not reflect the community aspect. There is a long list of members and (besides the mailing lists) little common representation. People learn when writing pages, so we don't want to take away this aspect by providing a central-authoritative source of information. Still there's many common goals among the members. So the idea is to provide a wiki-namespace grouped by task or interest, moderated by dedicated members. We find the main cause of fragmentation (lad,lau,lac,portal,..) to be the high setup-cost to contribute to existing websites. The idea is to reduce fragmentation, to move most content into a CMS from where it can be cited, exported, put into context and eventually consolidated. As mentioned above, while the wiki is open to the public, there could also be some /read-only/ wikipages (eg. a dedicated http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namespace ) where well known members or editors can publish, summarize, copy&paste articles. besides, LAUs are no general-audience, are we? ;) old legacy issue: Conference vs. Consortium came up with LAC around the same time: the consotrium owns the www. website, lac. is the conference. I'm all for moving it to conference.linuxaudio.org and we'll keep a 301 redirect from lac. (the domain was used by previous conferences) Well, it is up to the next conference organizer(s) (or their poster-designer): http://conference.linuxaudio.org vs http://[www.]lac2009[.linuxaudio].org etc. IMHO these should be accessible from a 'top-menu' or banner on www.linuxaudio.org (maybe other vhosts as well). hehe, if I had the time I'd host a design contest; make an upload form and write a proper announce email that will make it on slashdot at x-mas. Concept wise apps is a subset of the wiki. At the moment it's implemented the other way around. The idea here is to also reduce the multitude of vhosts on linuxaudio.org - At some point both apps and wiki could move to http://linuxaudio.org/wiki/ and the vhosts would remain entry-points for backwards compatibility. Addressing web-design and host-management I'm pretty much stepping beyond my responsibilities. Nevertheless it has been neglected for too long and lots of legacy keeps adding to the confusion. BTW. LAD silently celebrated it's 10's birthday in September http://lalists.stanford.edu/lad/1998/ (note the Finnish dates and wrong ordering) - and linuxaudio.org will turn 5 on December 12 this year. Well, we won't delete anything ;) We can mark it as "outdated" (or move it to legacy.linuxaudio.org) and encourage Mr Jones to tag/link interesting resource there from the wiki. Content that's worth updating can be refreshed or imported.. so long, robin