[dojo-contributors] Dojo Community Resources

[Bill Keese]

OK, so there would be two forums, the fan-site forum and the official forum?

Karl Tiedt wrote:
> Revised Blog article.... and yes, a fan site if you will.... is a good 
> way of putting it :)
> 
>       What I am hoping to achieve by writing this article, is to receive 
> community feedback regarding the construction of this community 
> resource. Now that I have said all that, here are the things I hope to 
> see achieved by the creation of this community resource.
> <ol>
>   <li>Community written module/widget hosting that is outside of the 
> scope of the Dojo Contributor License Agreement</li>
>   <li>Support forum for posted modules/widgets</li>
>   <li>Community written FAQ/How-to articles</li>
>  <li>Community driven content (Relating to but not necessarily limited 
> to technoligies where Dojo can be used)</li>
>  <li>Community written JS Library/Toolkit/Framework etc. comparisons</li>
>  <li><strong>Dojo anything!</strong> Links to articles, personal blogs, 
> write ups, news articles websites that showcase Dojo, companies that use 
> Dojo.... <strong><em>Literally ANYTHING!</em></strong> (anything legal 
> anyways ;))</li>
> </ol>
> 
> <em>Note: This is not a replacement to the http://dojotoolkit.org 
> website but rather a collaborative site that allows for unofficial 
> modules and widgets to be collectively offered to the Dojo Community. 
> Code contributions to this site would not require Contributor License 
> Agreements, the poster will maintain liability for content provided by 
> him/herself in this case. Just because this site won't require a CLA, 
> this should not be seen as an easy way out to contributing to the Dojo 
> Community, contribution of good ideas and useful code is still 
> encouraged to be made directly to the Dojo Toolkit project.</em>
> 
>       As everyone knows, the Dojo community has been expanding at an 
> enormous rate since the release of Dojo 0.3.0, and with it that growth 
> has come the question; "Where can we find Dojo resources on the web, 
> that aren't direct products of The Dojo Foundation?". This of course has 
> been addressed in the past, but in a passive manner, nobody has yet 
> taken an active role in solving this problem. Consider this article step 
> #2 in the process of solving this problem.  Step #1 was of course my 
> brainstorming and researching possible ways of approaching this.
> 
>       As of this past weeks IRC meeting in #Dojo-meeting, it has been 
> decided to work towards integrating a Forum system into the current list 
> of Dojo resources and the need for a "Dojo Resources" type community was 
> also addressed. At this time, I believe that the "Dojo Community 
> Resources" site could very well be hosted off the normal domain, in fact 
> I would encourage it to be on its own namespace (to steal a term from 
> Dojo/Javascript). By moving this project to a seperate domain, it will I 
> believe, remove liability from the Dojo Foundation, for submissions that 
> may have been made without prior authors consent. My idea on this is 
> that the submitter would maintain liability for their submissions, if 
> this is at all possible. Of course I am not a lawyer, so this is just my 
> idea how I would like to see things work.
> 
>       Why I am writing this article? Well, I believe that this is to be 
> a resource for the Dojo Community, that it is only right that you the 
> community, should have some idea of what is being considered for your 
> benefits. As it stands, I have volunteered web space from my personal 
> account, as well as to purchase the domain name (yet to be determined).  
> As for the resources available to make this happen, I have been 
> considering using a PHP framework/CMS to meet the "community" aspect of 
> the site, and preferably one that has a forum project integrated into 
> it.  It has been suggested that the scope of this search should be 
> extended beyond just PHP software, so I'll be entertaining a few 
> suggestions on that as well, however my strengths lie in PHP and 
> JavaScript so I'll admit that I am biased towards that as a solution.
> 
>        What projects have I looked at? Well in my years of playing "Web 
> developer" I have experimented with several of the CMSs out there. Among 
> them I have used: Joomla, Mambo, phpCake, MKP, and most  recently 
> Seagull. Of all these, there are various forums associated with them or 
> that have been integrated by third parties, however only one of the 
> forums really supports the features that we were looking for to 
> integrate into the current Dojo resources; FUDforums which is integrated 
> into the Seagull Framework. So that is what I am hoping gets adopted by 
> as the forum of choice for Dojo; not only because it supports all the 
> features we want, but it is also supported by the PHP framework that I 
> am wanting to use for the community site.
> 
>       Basically what I am aiming for is a site where the community 
> contributes most of the content. I am hoping for a small amount of help 
> from at least 1 other Dojo contributor in order to be mediators between 
> the Community and the Dojo contributors. I would also hope for several 
> trust worthy and knowledgeable community members to help maintain the 
> community forums and such as well. These people would  be working on 
> site layout etc, forum  moderation, and if capable, feature 
> modification/creation to meet the needs of the community site.
> 
>       If you have any comments or suggestions regarding what would aide 
> in creating the best "Community Resource" website out there, by all 
> means post a comment below with your ideas and recommendations. As I am 
> wholly expecting the Dojo Community to play a major role in how this 
> project starts, evolves, and runs. To make that possible, I'm counting 
> on loads of feedback and cooperation from you, our Community.
> 
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> -- 
> -Karl Tiedt
> 
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