Definitely. i had no idea the subdomain got it's own server. That should
be changed if the subdomain is not ramped up to do more. I can't see
what we could do with it that is not already covered by the rtwiki site
though.
I don't think it matters where the page is hosted but I don't really
have the inclination to submit it for approval at the official howto
site. If someone wanted to take that on it would probably be accepted
with some changes. I prefer not to have to deal with the bureaucracy.
> Some of the content in quicktoots is certainly out-of-date. Old ardour
Well the point of leaving that older stuff up is that without it there
would be about 5 tutorials. That older stuff is fairly generic though so
it will be useful as a starter for some people. I have a long term goal
for the quicktoots to have 100 tutorials sometime int he next 20 years.
However it really depends on user contributions.
> In the long run I think that deleting them is better than keeping them
I don't like the idea of deleting hard work that has been contributed by
indviduals on their own time. I prefer to keep them available for
historical purposes. However there is some room for making it obvious if
the article is out of date. I think they all have a date stamp displayed
but I can whip something up to that affect for the wrapper code once I
have a generic template to work with. Maybe I should just add the
template and then ask for design submissions once it is in place.
Something is better than nothing.
> However we can also see to update or migrate them:
I am open to suggestions for lau also. I never intended to reign over
the official home page so if there are improvements to make then I'm all
ears. However the content that is their now will remain in some form on
the web even if I host it myself.
> IMO quicktoots is a very 90's webdesign; but I won't be able to do any
Well css wasn't really around until at least 2000 so that's a touch
harsh. I agree that the design is not as beautiful as it could be. I
haven't done any real work on it for a couple of years. I could add
rounded corners if that makes it more attractive... Part of the theme
was to make it a little hard so that people didn't get the wrong
impression that Linux audio was cute and friendly.
> unless we move LAU over to djcj we'll have to worry about
Ok, So it's just the low latency howto that is taking up space from a
technical pov and not literally as a waste of time having it online.
Personally I don't mind the lao portal having different themes for the
different sub domains. I think it reflects that there are many different
personalities involved in the community. I think giving lau the same
theme as the other domains is kind of bland. However we should have a
more consistent thread woven into the templates to reflect that there
are some common goals we all share in a general inclusive kind of way.
Maybe it's time to have another competition to design a template or at
least ask for some ideas from the community for viual representation of
themes?