[Pdweb] Re: [pd] a simple, user friendly place to post and link to patches, externals, libraries, etc.

[Chris McCormick]

Taking this to pd-web at iem.at instead of keeping it on the list...

> Chris McCormick wrote:
> >On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:00:01PM +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> >>>i think we really just need something where people can upload a patch
> >>>or zip file with one click, and then write a description of it.
> >>this makes at 3.5 clicks compared to 1 click (but i guess the "1 click"
> >>was not to be meant literally).
> >>
> >>in practice things are a bit more complicated: you have to know where
> >>you can click for "add file"; and the list of items you could add might
> >>be longer than what you really want to see.
> >
> >Also, when someone uploads something cool into plone, does anyone hear
> >about it? Is there an RSS feed of recently contributed tunes/patches or
> >anything like that? I think that could encourage use.

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:36:11AM -0500, marius schebella wrote:
> I strongly support that idea too!
> youtube for pd patches. and having a button inside your pd pulldownmenu 
> that says "publish on you-pd.org" which would make it a one klick 
> action. if we have a standardized description line inside the patch it 
> could be easily parsed into a web description...
> what I also was thinking of for a while now, (and some people already 
> work in a similar direction) is a virtual place to jam together.
> marius.

So maybe rather than, or as well as a 'curated' Pd website, we could have
some kind of a web log/rss feed anybody can easily post patches and tunes,
and others can easily follow the action by subscribing to the feed or
visiting the website often. We could even have this content CC'ed to a
special high-attachment-volume mailing list that people could subscribe
to if they prefer to receive this kind of thing by mail. What do you
think, Steffen? How hard would it be to knock this into the existing
Plone framework, or should it be started as a separate site?

> but... many patches are written for a special situation or for a special 
> hw setup.

Then those people shouldn't post their patch to the feed, I guess. Or
they can but with caveats.

Best,

Chris.

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