Re: Idea of a new Ada website.

[David Holm <david@realityrift.com>]

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I would like to see a general Ada page that carries nicely organized information and which
doesn't look like it was designed in the early nineties. Perhaps something like
http://www.devx.com/ without all the ads and microsoftisms. Adapower's look is simply outdated
and makes people new to Ada think that we are dealing with a dead language. You can do wonders
with some stylesheets these days even without having any artistic talent whatsoever (believe me,
I know ;).

Having a system which allows users to submit stories, links etc would be great too (of course
they should be moderated before placed on the webpage). That way you can have a set of
moderaters you trust check the webpage regulary and approve any new stuff. That way you minimize
the possibility of the site dying when you lose the interest/time to work on it (like adahome
or adapower).
I don't know of your past website development experience but these things are fairly simple to
do with a database and some php. Bonafide OS Development (http://www.osdever.net/) has a similar
system for it's links.

Mirroring files is probably a bad idea. You would have to spend a lot of time making sure all of
them are up to date. The only time that would be good is if a project has died and the webpage
has been taken down. Instead you should provide links or maybe adopt a system like what
http://www.freshmeat.net/ uses as Jeffrey Creem already suggested.
You can probably find a ready made system for this written in php and sql, I wouldn't at all be
surprised if freshmeat.net is open source and afaik sourceforge.net has released their sources
as well.

If you need any help from someone with some php/sql experience feel free to mail me. It's been a
while but it's like riding a bicycle ;).

//David Holm

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 09:51:48 GMT
"Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net> wrote:

> So in essence, you'd like somewhat of a global place (categorized) where
> users can go see what library exists, and see what work is being done on
> them?  would it be a good idea to have that library's code right on the
> website too, or would it be better to have a link to where they can get that
> code?
> 
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> > Stephane Richard wrote:
> > > Hello everyone.
> > >
> > > I'm in the process of creating my Ada Website.  and i'm wondering
> > >
> > > 1. if it would be considered blasphemis by the existing website of
> authority
> > > such as adapower (I dont want to compete, I want Ada to have more
> presence
> > > :-).
> > > 2. Encouraged as a new effort to promote Ada in yet one more place :-).
> >
> >
> > What I really dislike about Ada is no good library support.  There are
> > plenty of libs, but collections of them always seem disorganised or a
> > bit dead.  Jeff Creams' idea of having a posting area for libs is a good
> > one.  People can post updates on their work, and hopefully the
> > organisation will be a bit better and more current than other places
> > (Adapower does a good job, I wasn't talking about that site).
> >
> 
> 



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