Sven Neumann wrote: > Responding to what Carey Bunks wrote: >> My experience is that this does not work in practice. I spent a lot >> of time last summer trying to get Grokking the GIMP onto gimp.org and >> just could not convince anyone to allow me to do it. That's why I >> created Gimp-Savvy.com. > > Who did you ask then? Took me a little luck and a few minutes on irc > to get sven.gimp.org and freetype.gimp.org registered under the > gimp.org domain for example. <snipped...> He asked this very mailing list. [See attached] For just one link. And while only Dr. Bunks can authoritatively state the response he received, apparently it was zip. Perhaps only the IRC is the proper forum for gimp administrivia... On the other hand, perhaps this is why we really, truly need a gimp.org webmistress/master - or a group that can make the role function - so as to realize requests such as this. That is the true issue. As any number of posters have observed, bits can live anywhere - who cares where they live. Sourceforge. gimp.org. Anyplace is fine by me. It's indexing, so that the useful, high-quality, bits may be referenced in short order from a well-known starting point, that is what's really called for, IMHO. www.gimp.org is useful as a starting point to wherever the bits may be because the URL is well established in many peoples' minds, but the key is to have the site *run*. In part that means catching requests such as Carey's, having judgement that the offered link is of high quality, and simply putting the link there. The effort is not in writing an HTML anchor, of course, but having time to field requests, look at what's available, and exercising a discriminating judgement upon what's found. Now, to date, no one with the savvy to discriminate high- quality bits from cruft has come forward to make the site *run*. I presume its because anyone with such ability also realizes the time commitment required and few readers here are so immature as to volunteer for something they cannot undertake to complete. But isn't that how open source initiatives die, afterall, for want of initiative? Be good, be well Garry Osgood -------- Original Message -------- Received: by u2.farm.idt.net for gosgood(with pop daemon (v1.21 1997/08/10) Thu Apr 13 20:35:10 2000) <snipped...> What do folks think of adding either of these two resources to the Gimp? <Toolbox>/Xtns/Web Browser/Gimp-Savvy.com --> http://gimp-savvy.com/ <Toolbox>/Xtns/Web Browser/Grokking the GIMP --> http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/ Best regards, Carey Bunks ------------------------------------ Dr. Carey Bunks Senior Scientist BBN Corp. 70 Fawcett St, 15/2A Cambridge, MA 02138 tel: 617-873-3028 fax: 617-873-2918 email: cbunks@xxxxxxx ------------------------------------
