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 This stood out for me "The tangled pile of mostly outdated and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 Regardless though, an out of date wiki is not helpful.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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