On Jun 14, 2010, at 8:18 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
That 'pro' thread should have retitled been retitled for sure. Occasionally there are little outbreaks like that, but mostly I think its quite civil around here. I think we could be more newbie friendly. I've heard that this list intimidates most newbies, which is not a good thing, IMHO.
.hc
Yeah, OT threads should be retitled immediately so as not to lose the initial discussion. It's annoying to skim the list digests when the subject lines don't match the content.
On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Kim Cascone wrote:
the reason I'm devoting a lot of my energy to figuring out the [plugin~] external is because I'm editing the LADSPA chapter in the FOSS Pd manual online -->
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/PureData/UsingLADSPAplugins
and I want to make sure the text is a) true and b) easily understood by a n00b
This is where I think things should always go ... to the wiki or the Floss manual! If a solution is found, pleasepleaseplease post it to a standard place and then *everyone* can benefit and we don't get the same questions every 6 months. Not everyone knows to search the mailing list. This is why I suggested a few weeks ago that we should look into building out "knowledge" base in a more centralized way because there are too many disparate elements ... I think newbies don't know where to look.