Just thought it worth mentioning, we now collectively do own camping.io - this is where judofyr''s site will go when it''s ready, and we''re planning to use github pages as hosting for now (yes, we won''t be running it as a dynamic camping website, seeing as we can''t think of any good dynamic functionality) Speaking of dynamic functionality. Do you guys remember the old ruby/rails beast forums? They kind of died out, but a really simple clean forum can be a really nice thing, and it send a clear message by being publicly readable - camping is not dead. You wouldn''t need to join a mailing list to find that out. I''ve been thinking about forums a lot lately, and I think http://camendesign.com/nononsense_forum is a really great way to build a really simple forum - you use folders for sub forums, and rss or atom feeds for threads. This way you can subscribe to them also, and it has a built in API of sorts. Probably atom is the way to go. rss is a bit of a hack job. I''m really keen to kill this myth that camping is inactive. Another way I think we might do this is to bring in camping-related projects as well. In the same way rails is the home of active record, perhaps camping aught to be the home of things like mab. ? Jenna Fox -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/camping-list/attachments/20120201/3c33f095/attachment.html>
I''ve recently been using Arch linux and 90% of the appeal comes from their awesome user-led wiki.. Something which we can gradually add to, build on camping of course, and which hand-holds beginners would be ideal I think On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Jenna Fox <a at creativepony.com> wrote:> Just thought it worth mentioning, we now collectively do own camping.io - > this is where judofyr''s site will go when it''s ready, and we''re planning to > use github pages as hosting for now (yes, we won''t be running it as a > dynamic camping website, seeing as we can''t think of any good dynamic > functionality) > > Speaking of dynamic functionality. Do you guys remember the old ruby/rails > beast forums? They kind of died out, but a really simple clean forum can be > a really nice thing, and it send a clear message by being publicly readable > - camping is not dead. You wouldn''t need to join a mailing list to find that > out. I''ve been thinking about forums a lot lately, and I > think?http://camendesign.com/nononsense_forum is a really great way to build > a really simple forum - you use folders for sub forums, and rss or atom > feeds for threads. This way you can subscribe to them also, and it has a > built in API of sorts. Probably atom is the way to go. rss is a bit of a > hack job. > > I''m really keen to kill this myth that camping is inactive. Another way I > think we might do this is to bring in camping-related projects as well. In > the same way rails is the home of active record, perhaps camping aught to be > the home of things like mab. > > > ? > Jenna Fox > > > _______________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > Camping-list at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
That sounds great, but I remain skeptical that people will spend the time necessary to write good quality articles (or anything at all) on a wiki, seeing as we have had a wiki as our entire website for quite a long time. Do you have any thoughts on who would contribute and what their motivations would be? ? Jenna Fox On Wednesday, 1 February 2012 at 2:18 PM, adam moore wrote:> I''ve recently been using Arch linux and 90% of the appeal comes from > their awesome user-led wiki.. > Something which we can gradually add to, build on camping of course, > and which hand-holds beginners would be ideal I think > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Jenna Fox <a at creativepony.com (mailto:a at creativepony.com)> wrote: > > Just thought it worth mentioning, we now collectively do own camping.io (http://camping.io) - > > this is where judofyr''s site will go when it''s ready, and we''re planning to > > use github pages as hosting for now (yes, we won''t be running it as a > > dynamic camping website, seeing as we can''t think of any good dynamic > > functionality) > > > > Speaking of dynamic functionality. Do you guys remember the old ruby/rails > > beast forums? They kind of died out, but a really simple clean forum can be > > a really nice thing, and it send a clear message by being publicly readable > > - camping is not dead. You wouldn''t need to join a mailing list to find that > > out. I''ve been thinking about forums a lot lately, and I > > think http://camendesign.com/nononsense_forum is a really great way to build > > a really simple forum - you use folders for sub forums, and rss or atom > > feeds for threads. This way you can subscribe to them also, and it has a > > built in API of sorts. Probably atom is the way to go. rss is a bit of a > > hack job. > > > > I''m really keen to kill this myth that camping is inactive. Another way I > > think we might do this is to bring in camping-related projects as well. In > > the same way rails is the home of active record, perhaps camping aught to be > > the home of things like mab. > > > > > > ? > > Jenna Fox > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Camping-list mailing list > > Camping-list at rubyforge.org (mailto:Camping-list at rubyforge.org) > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > Camping-list at rubyforge.org (mailto:Camping-list at rubyforge.org) > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/camping-list/attachments/20120201/3b0c2fca/attachment.html>
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 04:18, adam moore <nerdfunk at gmail.com> wrote:> I''ve recently been using Arch linux and 90% of the appeal comes from > their awesome user-led wiki.. > Something which we can gradually add to, build on camping of course, > and which hand-holds beginners would be ideal I think >The website will be fully open-source (Markdown files in the camping/camping.git-repo) so people should be able to contribute if they want.