hi Norman,

BTW are you the mythical new media artist Norman White?
in any case it is a striking "omonimia" :)


On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:24:21AM +0000, Norman White wrote:

> Is there a possibility of setting up the dynebolic website to have a
> section where users can focus on certain active projects for the
> dyneOS? The projects in this section would take paypals specifically
> for any 'interested' projects

there is a possibility and your suggestion comes very handy at the
moment, while we are preparing a new web setup (both in backend and
frontend) which will add and re-organize contents on dyne.org

the section you mention is much needed and i guess should also include
the individuals who are active on projects, so that a direct
relationship can be established between donors and developers.

a month ago all the hackers involved in various dyne.org projects
started discussing internally a draft of activities and a roadmap,
currently discussion is stalled on a limited set of documentation, we
should really give it a spin and then transform it in such a webpage
as the one you mention.

> for example, a project:

> Dyne nests that don't require the 'dd file' to hold the nest. The
> required nest directories would go into a directory with any name
> and the ".nst" extension; for example 'AnyName.nst' would be a
> directory that would would hold the necessary info that identifies a
> dyne nest. A user would then populate the directory with whatever
> content meets their fancy. Dynebolic would then detect the
> nest-directory and after loading it a user could work inside the
> nest. this type of nest would have the advantage of automatically
> growing without any size restriction.
>
> A paypal account could be set up to raise a certain amount to get to
> project to meet a reasonable progress deadline.

nice example! very specific task and indeed much needed: advanced nest
functionalities are being on our TODO list since quite a while now.

> In general, a sort of business plan for any 'interested' project
> would generate the paypal money necessary to realize an 'interested'
> project and add to the dynebolic-nation, as a whole, a vigorous
> ongoing OS

let's see :) i'm looking forward to integrate the development that
pure:dyne is doing on the next generation of their OS, which might be
also leading development of some future features.

in addition to this, I'm active on development for the EEEPC together
with BLAG developer (and linux-libre mantainer now) Jeff Moe. We hope
that will lead to an ad-hoc operating for this platform and eventually
a first working implementation of the new dyne:3 core.

so here are already some new specific tasks...

Doing all this it will be also crucial to properly involve new people
to help us, if not directly with development, also with the mantaining
such a webpage as you suggest and coordinating all efforts: we
currently miss such a figure and the workload on that front is
definitely too much for me.

let's see. hopefully you'll notice soon some changes on dyne.org
pages, besides the current heartfelt "in memoriam" to Gary Gygax, and
BTW any further suggestion is really welcome!

ciao

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Jaromil, dyne.org developer, http://jaromil.dyne.org

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