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2011/2/23 Alexandre Prokoudine :

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> Now, here is why rss, email et al don't do a good work enough: they

> don't provide perspective and they don't expose connections between

> people right away. I've served several years as social hub for free

> graphics software developers and I can tell you that while email and

> Jabber and IRC and whatnot, as well as F2F meetings at LGM, LAC etc

> are the ultimate communication means, it's very important to stay

> tuned to all things happening. For same reason I woudn't limit such a

> dream service to audio developers, because audio is related to video

> (audio effects in NLE, JACK compatibility), and video is related to

> things like static graphics and video drivers (likewise audio is

> related to kernel, ALSA and FFADO), and so it all is intertwined.

That is more or less the point IMO. Yet I see the two sides of the

coin: on one side people don't blog about what they are doing since a.

it's too demanding (here micro-blogging kind of things would help) and

b. if what they did is not yet in a presentable state they won't talk

about it. I think it would be better to have some kind of very

informal service instead for "internal use only" (with this I don't

mean it shouldn't be public).
The main problem from another developer's perspective however is

different: I want to know who is working on what, so I don't really

need an "activity stream", but rather something that is organized in

some way (timestamps may help however). E.g., I want to know who is

working on LV2 hosts, who is working on audio programming languages,

etc. It would be cool if a search could be done on a tag-basis, so to

avoid useless hierarchies. The two things (activity stream and

"organized content", let's say) are not mutually exclusive, yet I

don't know of any such service.
Coming back to earth, I think a wiki would be fine if people get

involved... but they won't, I'm pretty sure... unless it gets big

enough (good night!)
(Jabber/XMPP is a case apart, I think it is a superior kind of thing,

since it can be quite easily integrated into whatever service you may

offer... but this is all another story?).
> AFAIK, Linux.com was supposed to become a kind of social service.

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> Maybe it's worth investigating what their plans are.

Didn't know about it, that would be great (or maybe not?)
Stefano
P.S.: unanimous consent and/or LAD endorsement is not needed to start

doing something like this, but at the moment I have other

priorities... I was just hoping that it could inspire/motivate

somebody else. At least the idea stands here in the ml archives as a

form of minuting (recursively, with such a service the idea would

always be there :-P)

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