[wxperl-users] wxPerl Community project...

[Huub P. <hu...@tr...>]

Hello list,

I know many others have proposed it in the past and (maybe not so) many
initiatives have been actually executed but we really need a central
community kind of place.

The german wiki (http://www.wxperl.de) is a mess (spammed all the time
and even a defacing at this moment).
The wiki at http://wxperl.pvoice.org/kwiki/ is a nice effort but only
thanks to some users (or even only one? jralls?) it is staying free of
spam but there are no new articles posted at all. Why? Don't know.
It's probably not  known and personaly I just don't like the Kwiki-software
but that's a matter of taste off course.
(On a side note: Jouke (whose place this wiki is hosted on) has anounced
on his weblog on 24-09-2006 that he will be offline for an undetermined
ammount of time due to personal issues. Otherwise I would have taken this
up with him directly to begin with.)

There are other spots with excelent stuff (like gigi.co.uk) but I only heard
about that on this list and it is decentralized this way.

I can go on with being negative and summing up what I think is "wrong"
and compare to "the great wxPython community" but that won't solve a thing
so here's what I came up with:

* I took the liberty of registering wxperl.info.
  A good domain name improves "findability"
* I'm in the lucky position of having hosting facilities and a lot of
   fast bandwidth to go with it that I can use. (the company where I work
   has no problems with me using it)
* I started writing this mail :-)

So what's next...?
Next I need ideas and help.

Here are some of my ideas:
* We need a user friendly, nice looking wiki.
   Something like "Mediawiki" (the heart of Wikipedia) but offcourse I
   can't live with a perl community on a php-driven site so after some
   searching I found Twiki: http://www.twiki.org which looks robust enough
   to me.
* We need tutorials
* We need Howto's.
* We need tips and tricks.
* Maybe write up the problems and solutions from the mailing list.
* Maybe a forum for some nice discussions (alltough it might clash with
  the mailing list)
* Show of your work.

Bottom line: we need a central community where beginners and experts can
teach and learn about wxPerl.
I'm trying to offer the place to start this and hope it will grow to be as 
big as
wxPerl deserves it to be.

E-mail me on or off list with your thoughts/ideas/offers etcetera and
maybe we'll have a nice community in no time.

Huub Peters