[PD] pure-data.org

[stm_sq^n]

Hello Marc,

Tuesday, May 13, 2003, 2:34:45 AM, you wrote:

ML> stm_sq^n wrote :

>> the right question would be, is such a website is really needed ?

ML> Each time I try to find new information about PD, I click and google the
ML> web forever. The pd webring, spider and other url lists are useful, but
ML> what's needed now is a unique collaborative portal, where all softwares,
ML> externals, documentation and tutorials would be collected, adapted,
ML> corrected, standardized, translated...

indeed such a portal would be helpful for anyone. but when i said if
it was needed, i was trying to point the fact that the pd community is
still very anarchic, looking like a sea of urls, sometimes a real maze
even for advanced users to get the right info in less than 15 clicks.
Now, if we want to try to build a kind of centralised portal (an
effective one) this should also mean that most (all?) of the
dev/active-users would have to play the game and make this portal a
living place by updating their work, pieces of code and researches up
to date, and i'm afraid (i would like to be wrong) that they will just
keep sticking on their little "urls network" for any reasons whatever
it's good or not.

Setting up a portal is not a problem, the problem is that this portal
will need regular inputs to be effective and not just
"NEWS_2003.05.13: today i have updated the homepage logo, hope you
like it".


ML> We could try to build a test site and tranfer pure-data.org later.

sure.
anyway, if you find enough fools to try to build this pd portal, you
can count me in.


aymeric.