Has anyone entertained the idea of Putting Pd up on Freshmeat and Sourceforge?
If none of the real developers have time, I'll at least put it up on Freshmeat...
(jfm3)
Dunno about Freshmeat (well, I'm a vegetarian!), but I find SourceForge desperately slow a lot of the time, and find the pages too much like hard work, too much of the time. So long as the ol'-fashioned ftp site is still there, I'm happy.
Richard Dobson
jfm3 wrote:
Has anyone entertained the idea of Putting Pd up on Freshmeat and Sourceforge?
If none of the real developers have time, I'll at least put it up on Freshmeat...
(jfm3)
I can certainly understand this.
Most Open Source projects successfully deal with the problem by having two mailing lists, one for users and one for developers. Noise on the developer list increases only slightly. Sourceforge gives email lists for projects like these away for free.
On the plus side, your user base will increase, which if nothing else will mean better field testing.
I am finding more and more people who are starting their own Open Source
software synthesis projects because they haven't found Pd or jMax. When I
show them Pd they want to hit something to alleviate their frusteration.
I myself wasted a lot of time writing a little MIDI programming
environment before I realised Pd was a viable alternative. Posting to
Freshmeat or Sourceforge would eliminate this problem.
Nonetheless, I will respect what seems to be the wishes of the list and not post about Pd.
(jfm3)
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, [iso-8859-1] Lavall�e Marc wrote:
Richard Dobson a �crit :
Dunno about Freshmeat (well, I'm a vegetarian!)
Freshmeat, as its name says, is visited by a bunch or very hungry Linux newbies. Expect this mailing list to get flooded with very basic questions. That'd be a dangerous move.
Marc
i think that the pd project would definitely benefit from that bit of promotion.
it would be easy to install more mailinglists here at the iem as soon as we feel the necessity - but right now i think it would be confusing. (there is little difference, after all, between "using" and "developing" pd ...) - but first, there is more and more need for a faq to send the hungry meateating newbies to ...
norbert
jfm3 a écrit :
Most Open Source projects successfully deal with the problem by having two mailing lists, one for users and one for developers.
But then, a moderator is needed to decide if someone is a user or a developer, and that kind of noise is even worse to manage.
I am finding more and more people who are starting their own Open Source software synthesis projects because they haven't found Pd or jMax.
Finding about PD on the net is far less difficult than programming DSP software... I agree that PD should be promoted more, as long as its developers and supporters are willing to deal with the hype. What do Miller and Gunther think about all this?
Marc
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, [iso-8859-1] Lavall�e Marc wrote:
Finding about PD on the net is far less difficult than programming DSP software... I agree that PD should be promoted more, as long as its developers and supporters are willing to deal with the hype. What do Miller and Gunther think about all this?
I think atleast listing it on freshmeat would be great way of advertising it. All it amounts to is another link to Millers page (or maybe the IEM page is a better starting point?). But it is a link posted in a very public place.
Actively NOT advertising to avoid 'newbies', yet wanting to expand the knowledge of PD sounds paradoxical. Newbies are potential developers and users. It's hard to get more developers/users without initally getting more newbies as an initial step. Anyhow, I think this list is pretty newbie friendly.
pix.
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