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

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

On Mar 23, 2005, at 10:17 PM, Teemu Arina wrote:
> 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.

I agree: showing is a lot better than telling.

> 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?

I'm not sure... I'll have to see.

> 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.

Right. I actually had an idea that we could implement an internal 
blogging system/aggregator for the place I work and think it would be 
incredibly useful. But it's not at all in my work scope.

The idea that you've got one or two useful apps out of the box is very 
powerful though. And we've actually got an implementation for one of 
the buzzwords (lightweight tagging/folksonomies) in the 
'delicious_tags' package, which will almost certainly get moved into 
_07 as an 'object_tags' package. Tagging everything is pretty nifty.

> I see if I can give it a shot in a few months if I have the time (the 
> usual problem).

I hear that. Although the 'we need you!' wasn't just aimed at Teemu, it 
was to everyone :-)

> 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]])?

I really dislike TWiki -- it's just so crufty. (And I say that having 
written a few plugins for it.) I started working on a wiki package a 
while ago but didn't have time to see it though -- I'll see what kind 
of shape that's in. I would like to have a more structured area of the 
site though -- IME wiki works well for support/FAQ/ideas but not as 
much as an introduction.

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

Absolutely. That reminds me -- I meant to shoot Chris Nandor an email 
about this to see if he's got some guidelines because he's been doing 
the same to Slashcode recently:

   http://use.perl.org/~pudge/journal/23723

Chris

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