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| Torsten Reincke 2006-11-23, 4:03 am |
| Larry W. Virden wrote:
>. If you have web experience, volunteer to help with
> http://www.tcl.tk/ .
[...]
> Anyways, I seem to recall that what I wrote involved contacting the
> webmaster, and volunteering to update news information as it appears in
> Tcl-URL!, comp.lang.tcl, etc. and discussing with the community what
> other features would be valuable to add.
First time I thought about this one, was when www.tcl.tk was updated
some time ago. Second time I thought about this, was when the thread
"is tcl/tk dying out?!" appeared on c.l.t.:
http://groups.google.de/group/comp....d7b1cd5a05024a5
Originally I wanted to wait, but perhaps I should step forward now. I
would like to volunteer! My vision is to have a kind of portal for
information on Tcl. It should be similar to the info on www.tcl.tk but
contain a lot more information and be updated on a regular basis. So I
collected ideas on what should be in there and hammered together a
prototype here:
http://tcl.typoscriptics.de/portal
This site is of course far from complete. Consider these pages as a
skeleton filled with ideas and beginning to be filled up with real
information. I have already "stolen" text from www.tcl.tk, the wiki,
and other places. This is a lot of work, and this is why I hesitate.
But I will have some time to spend from January (I hope). The design
and implementation was done with Rapidweaver (a Mac software) because I
wanted to concentrate on the content and not on web design as such. I
wanted to get up to speed quickly.
What is the final goal?
- replace www.tcl.tk with a new design
- getting all infos from the current www.tcl.tk into the new pages
- add additional information on all aspects of Tcl/Tk
- update information on a regular basis
- incorporate bits and pieces from c.l.t., Tcl-URL, chat and other
places
- ... add what you think it should contain ...
In one sentence: Make www.tcl.tk the best, easiest, and most fun
starting point for Tcl/Tk.
So, what do you think? Am I being too optimistic or is this something
the community would embrace, helping me with content here and there?
Torsten
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| Eckhard Lehmann 2006-11-23, 4:03 am |
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Torsten Reincke wrote:
> In one sentence: Make www.tcl.tk the best, easiest, and most fun
> starting point for Tcl/Tk.
Really good idea. I'd appreciate it...
I like to propose only one addition to the prototype: A feed aggregator
for Tcl developer blogs. There is such software around (called
planetplanet: http://www.planetplanet.org/). Maybe this or a similar
solution fits in your concept?
> So, what do you think? Am I being too optimistic or is this something
> the community would embrace, helping me with content here and there?
Of course I like to help out with content. If the site is made up like
a community portal (and it seems to be that), there are lots of easy
ways to get content in...
Eckhard
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| Mark Smithfield 2006-11-24, 4:02 am |
| > So, what do you think? Am I being too optimistic or is this something
> the community would embrace, helping me with content here and there?
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> Torsten
I think:
..you have done the right thing at the right time.
..you are actually going to get some help.
..I am going to help.
..It's going to be fun.
Good Job.
Mark
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| Robert Hicks 2006-11-24, 7:02 pm |
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Mark Smithfield wrote:
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> I think:
> ..you have done the right thing at the right time.
> ..you are actually going to get some help.
> ..I am going to help.
> ..It's going to be fun.
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> Good Job.
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> Mark
I think a lot of people would help this effort.
Robert
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| Torsten Reincke 2006-11-29, 4:09 am |
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Robert Hicks schrieb:
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> I think a lot of people would help this effort.
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> Robert
All right then. 3 positive feedbacks from the community is enough to
get me started. I will start a wiki page for this in the next w s and
begin putting more stuff into the web pages as I get the time for it.
Don't expect much before January 2007. I will also look into the
proposals that have been made here.
Torsten
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