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Martin
    
 
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Wiki + Mailing List
« on: Sep 12th, 2004, 8:36am » |
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hi all,
i've asked casey if it would be possible to create a wiki for processing. i planned to fire this up but more and more, i'm getting swamped even more.
i feel that the wiki could get things up and running for http://processing.org/learning/tutorials/index.html
if someone could set up a wiki somewhere, then that would be great!
on another note, a personal observation is that a number of people don't have the time to check this board regularly. it might be a good idea to create a p5 mailing list. easier to reply to emails.  what do you guys think?
best,
martin
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arielm
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Re: Wiki + Mailing List
« Reply #1 on: Sep 12th, 2004, 9:04am » |
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on Sep 12th, 2004, 8:36am, Martin wrote:| on another note, a personal observation is that a number of people don't have the time to check this board regularly. it might be a good idea to create a p5 mailing list. easier to reply to emails. what do you guys think |
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don't like much mailing lists, i think they're an awfull regression compared to a modern web-based board with the correct arsenal of add-ons.
and in addition of providing real-time/direct communication means, the current p5 forum has more functions: it serves as the project's memory and it's the core of the community.
it would be hard to achieve that with a mailing list, unless you have both a forum and a mailing list but then, you're adding some terrible noise in the system.
i guess the solution would be to invest some time and energy in picking/implementing the right board addons, e.g. "automatic email notification", etc.
a place to start with (unfortunately i don't have time these days to dig further):
http://www.boardmod.org/mods.php
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Ariel Malka | www.chronotext.org
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Martin
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Re: Wiki + Mailing List
« Reply #2 on: Sep 12th, 2004, 1:19pm » |
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thanks for your wisdom ariel. well, now that i think about it, it seems that the only drawback to having a mailing list instead of a board is spam control. oh well.
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TomC
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Re: Wiki + Mailing List
« Reply #3 on: Sep 12th, 2004, 7:44pm » |
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Here's a handy hint for following the forum. You can check recent (last 10) items using this URL: http://processing.org/discourse/yabb/action_recent.html
I check every couple of days or so and I rarely miss a post using this method. (OK, I might check a little more than that if I'm working on a Processing project and I have it on my mind!)
If anyone is familiar with screen-scrapers and RSS, I would *love* an RSS feed of that page, by the way. Or if someone could add a YaBB RSS mod, that would be fab.
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Martin
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Re: Wiki + Mailing List
« Reply #4 on: Sep 13th, 2004, 3:26pm » |
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fantastic info tom! fantastic!
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