The future of storytlr.com

[John Hobbs]

What is the current plan for storytlr.com?  Is there a redesign in store now that it is no longer operating as a service?

The notice at the top is useful, but it's been over a month. Why not just reduce it to a simple message with a redirect to the Google Code?

I'm not trying to push for anything specific, I was just discussing with ddev and am curious on the future of that domain.
If we can use it to drive traffic to the new community, or host the community there later, that would be ideal.

Thanks,

- John Hobbs

jo...@velvetcache.org

http://www.velvetcache.org/

[Laurent Eschenauer]

Intention is to close down.. and redirect to storytlr.org which will
be a landing page with links to the google code, the git, but also
services which propose storytlr mutual hosting, etc...

We'll ping you to have a look when it is done. In the meanwhile, I
agree we should change the top banner. I'll have a look at it today.

[DDevine]

> I'm not trying to push for anything specific, I was just discussing with
> ddev and am curious on the future of that domain.
> If we can use it to drive traffic to the new community, or host the
> community there later, that would be ideal.

community.storytlr.com perhaps?
As mentioned by John, I am interested in growing the Storytlr
community.

The current storytlr.com website does not reflect the new open source
status of the community very well. I feel that we sort of missed the
boat in that there wasn't a real community portal in place with all
the hubbub around the first open source release.

Also, another thing is that Storytlr has Identi.ca integration - but
no Identi.ca group! I use identi.ca regularly and would be happy to
help administrate the group. Identi.ca is a great hub for Open Source
developers so it would be a good idea to have some presence there and
announce releases and boast about new developments.

I feel a bit silly that I was unaware of the IRC channel on Freenode
until yesterday. Can the channel be mentioned on the Google code front
page?

[DDevine]

Oh, it seems Laurent replied while I was writing my reply.

If you need any help with the new site then just drop me an email.

--Daniel Devine

[Laurent Eschenauer]

> The current storytlr.com website does not reflect the new open source
> status of the community very well. I feel that we sort of missed the
> boat in that there wasn't a real community portal in place with all
> the hubbub around the first open source release.

Agree that we could have done much more but honestly, we did the most
we could in our limited free time. We also did not expect anyone to be
actually interested by it ! So.. you guys are proving us wrong !
Thanks for that !

> Also, another thing is that Storytlr has Identi.ca integration - but
> no Identi.ca group! I use identi.ca regularly and would be happy to
> help administrate the group. Identi.ca is a great hub for Open Source
> developers so it would be a good idea to have some presence there and
> announce releases and boast about new developments.

Please do whatever you thing is worth doing and that you can do. Ping
me if you think that I should do something (e.g. register a name
somewhere etc...)

> I feel a bit silly that I was unaware of the IRC channel on Freenode
> until yesterday. Can the channel be mentioned on the Google code front
> page?

I think that John created it yesterday.. so it is really fresh :-)

[Laurent Eschenauer]

Will do !

[DDevine]

I have created an Identi.ca group: http://identi.ca/group/storytlr

To become an Administrator for the group, join the group and then I
will promote you.

--Daniel Devine