[PD] and it's PR/Marketing, or those

[Pete Hindle]

I thought I'd chip in on this discussion as a low-level user, because  
the discussion had drifted away into technical discussions about  
crashes on various platforms.

Where I live there is a community-led cinema starting up, and in  
order to function they've split up organisation into different  
groups.  There is the planning group, the bar staff group, the  
marketing group, etc.  Perhaps the PD community could do something  
similar, and by doing a little bit of organisation make these big  
jobs into something more manageable.  Personally, I don't think I  
know enough about PD to take on the job of re-editing the homepage -  
my point was that PD could present a friendlier face to the world.   
What that face should look like has to be decided by more than one  
person.

Pete


On 16 Oct 2006, at 14:12, jjjs wrote:

> hi
>
> On 10/16/06, Pete Hindle <petehindle at gmx.co.uk> wrote:
>> For instance, the website puredata.info could use some sprucing up.
>> I don't have any CMS axe to grind, but it would be nice if the front
>> page was less technobabble and more advertisement for PD.
>
> well, there seems to be some misunderstanding about open source  
> projects.
>
> there is no army of HTML designers ready to do this redesign. pretty
> much everything associated with pd was done because somebody gave
> their time to do it.
>
> so, *you* could do it [prolly involves work], but there's no one else
> who's going to pick it up. it's not like apple [ipod-land], where
> people are paid to do this kinda work. it's a community based project-
> uneven and irregular [like communities are].
>
> -- 
> \js  [ http://or8.net/~johns/ ]
>