RISC OS Connect - Web-site Launch
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RISC OS Connect Arrives
02/02/2008
After much prevarication RISC OS Connect goes live today 2nd February
2008.
RISC OS Connect is a web based initiative to connect the as yet
un-exploited people of the RISC OS community to each other. The
people we are hoping to attract are both programmers and
non-programmers. People who want to contribute to the ongoing
developments in some way.
Initially the main focus of the website will be around the Skills
Database. This is a collection of people who have added themselves
and described what function they are able to perform. The main site
can be found here: http://www.riscos-connect.org. From here you will
find more information about RISC OS Connect, related news, links and
the Skills Database.
Whether or not this is a success depends on you.
The Skills database is open to all. From here, if you wish, you can
create an account and input the areas you feel you are best suited to
be able to render your services. Or you can simply view the database
to see who is available and what they can do.
A mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/riscos-connect) is also
available. This is open for anyone to join and to be used to discuss
related matters. This is also the place to submit your ideas for
further development of both the site and the RISC OS Connect
initiative.
The basic idea behind the RISC OS Connect website is to indicate what
resources are still available within the community. Knowing what
resources are available is very useful to developers, who perhaps have
time to do the programming, but not time write user manuals and other
non-programming related activities. The developer would then be able
to use the RISC OS Connect site to locate people who are able/willing
to write user guides or other tasks they need performing, thus
allowing the developer to concentrate on their program.
Alternatively the Skills Database could be used to put together a
small programming team with people who have a varying skill set. The
opportunities are there. You just have to take them.
As alluded to above this is a new initiative to connect resources
within the RISC OS Community.
The origins of RISC OS Connect come from a discussion on the Drobe new
portal back in April 2007. You can view this discussion and
subsequent articles here: -
http://www.drobe.co.uk/forum/index.php?task=view_topic&forum_id=6&topic_id=725
http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1944.html
RISC OS Connect does not seek to replace various other on-line efforts
such as riscos.info and RISC OS Open. We aim to coexist and provide a
service that neither site currently offer.
Our aim is to provide a connection point for disparate parts of the
RISC OS community and bring them together in a useful and constructive
manner.
So welcome, come in and enjoy the fun!
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