[Gimp-web] GIMP Brainstorm

[Martin Nordholts]

Marco Ciampa wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 03:52:52PM +0100, Chenaux David wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> this is the first mail I post in the list.
>> Perhaps the Gimp website needs a forum. I think the community seems to
>> be very closed when you're still not implicated in the project. I'm
>> sure a lot of developpers would like to take part to the project, but
>> they are a bit disappointed because of the organisation which seems
>> not clear.
>> And what about taking part in the launchpad website ? That would be a
>> great solution to encourage new developpers and it would also help for
>> translation.  (I know you're already using Bugzilla, but does it have
>> a such great community as in launchpad ?)
>>
>> About the brainstrom, why don't we use something like the Ubuntu
>> brainstrom ? I can't understand what's the problem with comments !
>> They can be very usefull and improve some ideas ! And rating would be
>> a great way to know more about the wishes of the gimp users.
>>
>>
>> (Sorry for the English I'm not a native speaker...)
>>
>>     
> And I could add ... why not a multilingual site?
>
> I am organizing a CMS for the italian GIMP web pages and I am considering
> Drupal. This beautiful CMS comes with full support to i18n. I see it as a
> clever move to collect the GIMP resources in a more consistent way without
> reinventing the wheel for every national GIMP lovers group...
>
> With a CMS it comes for free: RSS, blogs, forums, GIMP dev pages, we could
> connect the CMS account to a (media)wiki section and so on...
>
> why not?
>
> I put myself as a volunteer for the italian language pages from now on...as my
> italian is way better than my english... ;-)
>
>   

Hi

The GIMP website is more or less unmaintained, if someone feels like
brushing the site up then feel free to take some initiatives. The
web-page is version controlled in the gimp-web GNOME SVN module.

- Martin