[Openinteract-help] Re: [Openinteract-dev] New website

[Teemu A. <te...@io...>]

> I had the same idea and grabbed a video capture tool a short while
> ago; maybe I'll try it out tonight... :-)

Yea I got Camtasia studio and have created several screencasts already
as user manuals for software I've created. Works nice and a lot more informative
compared to 100's of pages of manuals.

We also need a video of Chris throwing a presentation of the OI2 architecture.
Is your software able to show slides and you narrating on top of that stuff?

> Seriously, I'm very impressed by how quickly they've got everyone
> talking about Rails. Part of the reason is that Ruby is on everyone's
> "I need to learn that" list and part is that they make easy things
> really easy. (I haven't heard as much about how well tough things go,
> but I wouldn't underestimate them.) They've also got conference
> heavyweights like Dave Thomas pushing, a big deal.

Part of success seems to be the way they got their selves on the nerve pulse
of the blogger community. They had a nice low-level platform and also a
nice high-level implementation, Basecamp on top of it. I remember reading about
it in some high-traffic blogs. Of course every blogger featured basecamp because it's
basically a specialized blogging tool, mainly for projects. The top bloggers are
meta-bloggers (blogging about blogging) anyway.

> I think another thing we can do is get a number of useful applications
> ready-to-go as well as framework enhancers like
> OI2::Action:RSS. Leveraging CPAN for this helps us a lot.

> Redesigning the website is an area where I'll be overjoyed to
> delegate. (As anyone who has seen my website knows, my design sense is
> very limited.) Of course, simpler is better.
>
> So if you've got some free time and design skills, we need you!

I see if I can give it a shot in a few months if I have the time (the usual problem).
Any top-class designers or OI2 coders here? I suggest it's based on a wiki, a static
front page and some weblog tool for the latest news. RSS feeds, obviously. OI has
everything but the wiki, but well that's not really required, although it would be
nice for tutorials etc. Is the current twiki how easy to modify (to just match the look of
the new website, for example) and does it work without the camel case
(i.e. [[New website|NewWebsite]])?

Maybe we can fix that XHTML interface of OI at the same time? =)

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