I suspect we need not only a lead, but a group of folks who will work on the project.mavrothal wrote:As Burn_IT said we need a lead. ie someone to actually start working on this.
There's simply too much information for one person to manage.
Puppy Linux is supported, via this forum, by a community, not by just a small group of interested people, so any editing of any community Puppy home page should be all-Puppy-users inclusive (unless BarryK says or has said otherwise). No one is entitled to judge another user's opinions or contributions, especially now that BarryK has basically passed the project on to the Puppy users community. Puppy remains BarryK's copyright and the main domain name belongs to BarryK. I think these issues with domain name and Puppy development management methodology needs to be clarified from BarryK in view of his announced retirement. Otherwise, it is problematic creating a new home page whilst the old domain lies dormant and potentially restrictive if one (or more) dominant group(s) assumes leadership of an open source community developed and supported product.tlchost wrote: I suspect we need not only a lead, but a group of folks who will work on the project.
There's simply too much information for one person to manage.
Oh, let's see, using that logic, every user here should be able to control the forum, or every user should be able to control the IRC channel.mcewanw wrote: so any editing of any community Puppy home page should be all-Puppy-users inclusive (unless BarryK says or has said otherwise).
Yes....so we'll just wait and see what, if anything Barry does.Puppy remains BarryK's copyright and the main domain name belongs to BarryK. I think these issues with domain name and Puppy development management methodology needs to be clarified from BarryK in view of his announced retirement.
That is the idea.Burn_IT wrote:I think the home page should be a mix of
Puppy.com
Puppy.org
The beauty of the (git)hub proposal is that the woof team (see picture of current members) will be also the ones deciding which of the proposed changes actually go on the site.Burn_IT wrote:We do need to nominate a Web Master for it, wherever it is.
The Web Master (ideally a small group) should only be allowed to update the site after changes have been "signed off" to prevent personality clashes.
Oh I see. I re-read your first post, mavrothal, but erroneously thought from that and some of the posts that followed it that some alternative to puppylinux.com and puppylinux.org was being proposed. Personally, I think puppylinux.org at least is one of the better looking and easy to use Puppy sites, though I imagine it needs a bit updating to continually reflect Puppy developments, including the alternatives and so-called "lookalikes" and woof/woof-CE and so on. From your later posts, I note that you are talking from your own perspective of being part of woof-CE development team. That's not something I've been involved in, and with other projects occupying me at the moment I'll bow out of any current direct involvement in that :-) I'm interested to see how your webpage development goes though. woof-CE seems like an interesting area, and good luck with the progress of that.mavrothal wrote:This is all very interesting, but you may want to revisit the 1st post.
This is about a Puppy Linux entry point web site for the new-comer.
Like BK's original only a bit more 21st century. 8)
It is not for a forum consolidation page or a puppy wiki.
I'm sure there are others who are willing to donate cpu/server space to make a dynamic home page. I know I would.raffy wrote:The big problem about the Puppy Linux home page is that if it is done multi-user (using scripts), its CPU usage jumps given the high number of hits and the site is soon suspended by the host. This explains the static nature of the home page.
We can use puppylinux.info anytime for this - I mean, have the server ready, give me the DNS info and I will direct the domain to that server. (For puppylinux.com or puppylinux.org, you will have to request Barry to do this.)jamesbond wrote:I'm sure there are others who are willing to donate cpu/server space to make a dynamic home page. I know I would.