Re: Website Resources Survey

Hello,

	My only concern about the linuxppc.org site is the comment posted
refering to the site becoming more of a developers site.  While I am all
for building developer oriented material into the site to a greater
extent, I hope that they do not sacrifice the user oriented information.
Please keep up the user support on the site and don't move to a developer
only site!  I would hate to see LinuxPPC Inc. controlling all support
avenues for this OS (not that I think they do it poorly, its just that it
is nice to have options). Just my 2 cents. Thanks.

	Matt Trumbell



On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Gabriel Ricard wrote:

Ok folks, hopefully John L. Grantham, designer of the
LinuxPPC.com website, and I will be teaming up soon to
bring you a new website for LinuxPPC.org where we can
gather up all the LinuxPPC resources and put them in a
single, centralized resource for you all to enjoy.
Before we go about doing this, I'd like to ask you all
some questions, and run some ideas by you.

Firstly, I really want to know what you'd all like to
see available on LinuxPPC.org. This is an open
question, and is directed at both developers and
endusers. I encourage all of you to take a little bit
of time and really think about this since it is very
important to have a stable knowledgebase for the
PowerPC port of Linux, at least IMHO it is.


Secondly, since this site is going to be much more
dynamic that the current site (thanks to PHP), I'd
like to make, what were, static resources, more
dynamic. I.E. one of my ideas is to create a status
system for supported and unsupported hardware alike.
This can have several features including kernel
support on said systems, what bootloaders work, tips &
tricks, enduser comments/advice, a link to searching
the mailing lists for info on said hardware, etc, etc.

Another feature I'd like to add to the site is related
to the recent page put up on penguinppc.org, the
"Who's Who" list. I'd like to make something like this
that is a little more interactive, in order to connect
the users to the developers better. Hopefully this can
assist users in directing
feedback/questions/suggestions/etc to the proper
people.


Well, I guess that's about all I've got to say for
now. So, please, if you've got some extra time, look
over what I've said and get back to me so that we can
all work together to make the PowerPC platform a more
viable solution for running Linux.

Thanks!


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Gabriel Ricard
g_ricard@yahoo.com

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