In the press

BrendaWang brenda_wang at openmoko.com
Wed Jul 16 09:58:07 CEST 2008


About the public forum for discussion of the news, here is the page on 
wiki , might help.
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Discussion_Forums

matt joyce ??:
> Jay Vaughan wrote:
>   
>>> This stood out for me "The tangled pile of mostly outdated and  
>>> incomplete documentation at the OpenMoko wiki..."
>>> Is this an accurate evaluation of the wiki ?
>>> If so, what can we do to fix it up, how do we identify old content  
>>> and schedule it for updating?
>>>     
>>>       
>> I think, personally, its time for a 3rd-party site not related to  
>> OpenMoko to pick up the slack here. So much stuff happens too quickly  
>> for people who /should/ be updating the wiki to feel like its  
>> productive to do so ..
>>
>> What I would like to see is something like an "mokofanboix.org"  
>> website come up that has the following:
>>
>> - Daily blog news akin to the good ol' slashdot, of news from the  
>> openmoko scene, gleaned from careful inspection of the mailing lists,  
>> of IRC, of the codebase, of code delta's, etc.
>>
>> - Public free Repository of all the latest and greatest 'cool apps'  
>> found for OpenMoko
>>
>> - Public forum for discussion of the news.
>>
>> This is, of course, sorta what we've got with things like  
>> planet.openmoko.org (which I check daily), combined with the  
>> Scaredycat repo's and other such things, but ..  for newcomers .. I  
>> don't think any of this is as easily approachable as it would be if it  
>> were all put under a single umbrella that is a bit more of an  
>> 'openmoko pop culture' site than what we've got right now ..
>>
>> ;
>> --
>> Jay Vaughan
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> I agree.
> Regardless though, an out of date wiki is not helpful.
>
> What approaches can we take to fix up the wiki
>
>
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