[blag-whereto] [Announcement]BLAG 300000 Released
Abdur-Rahman Morgan
abdur-rahman at post-millenniumtechnologies.com
Tue Apr 1 19:50:20 UTC 2014
April Fools All[1]!
:)
In recognition for some of the very many definitions of blag and in
celebrating April Fools, I hope some of you got a good laugh. In all
seriousness, starting in May, we will begin development of BLAG 200000.
For those of you who are excited, I look forward to working with you all
as a team to see a successful release. For those of you who may ignore
this message because you've been discouraged about participating from
our inability not to come together as a community, during the next few
months, I'll hope that you'll participate, even if are not interested in
the OS Development.
However, it's been 12 years and for the last six, we've just let things
fall by the wayside. The forums are not active subsequently, the mailing
list is underutilized and our wiki...well you take a look at the
statistics[1] and tell me how we have 59,673 active users.
Well, I have some suggestions. Let me know what you think.
Let's start with the wiki. I'd like to transition the wiki from
MediaWiki to Dokuwiki. It's a lot simpler and a fresh start, with
someone who can invest a few hours to learn and eventually help others
learns to make it a community effort. I'd like to see the wiki blagified
to a degree, that is not only full of technical knowledge, most of which
is already in our forums, but content about free culture, free software
and all things that revolve around issues that are relevant to the
purpose of the distro.
Next, I'd like to see a shift in the way we communicate. The discussions
on IRC are some of the best discussions I've had with individuals.
However, off IRC, since there is little activity on the forums and I'd
like to see a StatusNet instance setup for our community to keep in
contact when we are not necessarily on IRC. Not simply discussions about
BLAG, but discussions about what is happening on society, news that
impacts each of us and other dialog about life in general.
Lastly, in help define where we are at, I'd like to see groups for the
prior blag-developers blag-users created on StatusNet with the creation
of actual mailing list that could mirror the content between them.
For the forums, I'd like to keep them, but transition away from them to
StatusNet for the future?
In terms of OS Development, that's another long e-mail, that I'll follow
up with.
Regards,
Abdur-Rahman
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day
[2]http://blag.wiki.aktivix.org/Special:Statistics
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