On Sat February 28 2009, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 01:43:42PM +0100, randall wrote: > > noticed a huge amount of mails on this subject this morning and > > its good to see many idea's, please allow to me to be the first to > > introduce a mockup, i did this in the last hour so its far from > > finished but at least its an idea. > > > Lets see what we have already and try to keep it simple and make use > > of the right tools for each specific task, at the moment there is a > > great wiki with good content. Have used it myself once and its easy > > to contribute new content. > > > wiki.linux-vserver.org > > > maybe someone might be willing to give some thought on the layout of the > > data structure as it is displayed on the wiki frontpage only with up to > > date finished content to make sure a first arriver can more easily find > > what he (or she) is looking for. > > > ====maybe also ==== > > a simpler page > > <code> > > explaining the wiki syntax > > </code> > > > forum.linux-vserver.org > > > are we willing to support this?? > > I don't have a problem with a forum ... > > combining the forum with the mailinglist would make it > a lot easier to follow and reply though ... i.e. the > best solution would be if the mailing list (including > archives) would exist as forum content and posting > something on the forum would show up on the mailing > list (maybe with special tags or on a special list) > too ... no idea if that is easy to do though :) > I am pretty sure that is a standard feature with what I am working on - from the documentation - - I haven't personally integrated a mailing list as a forum. You know about O.S. docs... But yes, if it does the basic integration, the FreeTags and categories will then work cross-section. On my list to test. > > the mailing list is great but many new users prefer a forum to ask for > > support and can browse the subjects without having to sign up first > > when investigating various visualization techniques, the benefit of an > > active forum is that it clearly indicates an active community and that > > would be a good sign. Also the most frequently asked questions would > > give us some clear idea on how to improve the documentation. > > > a simple phpbb installation would be sufficient for this, i could set > > this up later. > > > > www.linux-vserver.org > > > > the front page of the project, i have setup a simple wordpress example > > on http://test.songshu.org (just set up the dns so be patient if it does > > not resolve at once) not finished and needs some more work to make it > > slick (have to go now for social obligations so will work on that tomorrow) > > looks good to me, even with lynx, maybe some minor tweaks > like making the menu bar a little less high, and of course > really nice would be to add some aqua like effect to logo > as well as menu bar, I think :) > Set your total browser size not larger than 1024x600 - - The most common size of the light-weight Netbooks for road warriors. Then do a visual appraisal of the balance between logo/banner and usable text - - Nobody in today's world presses "page down" short of death. ;) > > maybe we can set up a colour scheme idea for all Vserver sites? > > maybe get some nice artwork to go where the flower images are > > right now or loose the headed images all together. > > (anybody creative for designing the image(s)?) > > > Home > > the frontpage right know is reserved for "big" announcements, maybe a > > nice job for Bertl to do a bi-weekly or so update when import things > > happen > > yep, can do that, at least it could be something like a > Linux-VServer Blog ... > > "nothing happened this week, so I ported 2.3.x to > the lates release candidate ... what a mess, but > see for yourself here ... " > > > About > > some content from wikipedia right now but it should have some more > > simpler explanation, think of appealing to a CEO with nice pictures. > > > Distro Support > > a list of all distro's that lead to a small page of that distro in > > wordpress explaining that "it is supported" or "don't worry its simple > > to patch" with a link to a distro specific landing page on the wiki > > giving some practical installation instructions for each of that > > distro's release. > Use the "Categories" feature - - it will let you tie pages from any of the various sections (wiki, blog, article, forum, etc, etc) into into a "Table of Contents" sort of page(s). Similar to FreeTags in that Categories are not bound to a section. > basically we support _all_ distros, but yeah, pages > like those on the wiki (installing Linux-VServer on > debian/ubuntu/wossname are definitely useful, as long > as then end with the installation procedure) > > > (maybe we can find some people making/updating these distro wiki > > pages) > > IMHO a good idea would be to provide 'icons' on the > main (or at least on the installation page) for the > major or specifically nice/problematic distros, so > that e.g. the alpine fan recognizes her/his distro ... > Just put the icons in the images gallery, link to them from wherever you are working. > hint: that could be work done by the distro maintainer(s) > Yeah, like you expect a code maintainer to do documentation? Code cutters generally don't do those sort of things. ;) Mike > > Vserver Hosting > > a page like this http://linux-vserver.org/VServer_Hosting , maybe > > linking to a page in wordpress for that specific hoster, for example, > > dreamhost might even be willing to pay for an "advertisement" page > > like that instead of donations as they mentioned earlier. > > > as said before this was just an hour work so far from complete but its > > an idea. > > nice job (looking at the current version)! > well done! > > best, > Herbert > > > -- > > > > www.songshu.org > > Just another collection of nuts > >