Re: PGXN buttons / logos and RSS

[David E. Wheeler]

On Nov 6, 2011, at 7:34 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote:

> are there any buttons with PGXN logo (something like 'available on pgxn'
> or 'my distributions on pgxh') that I could place on my website?
> Something like the 'powered by PostgreSQL" buttons available at pgfoundry.

No, but it'd be awesome to have one. Anyone have the tuits to create one? I can get original art work and post it on GitHub later today.

> And what about a RSS feed with recent distributions? I'd like to follow
> that and maybe display that on my site too.

No, though it's on my list. There *is* a JSON file for it, though. The URL is http://$mirror/stats/dist.json. Sample: http://api.pgxn.org/stats/dist.json. This is the file that http://pgxn.org/recent/ uses. You should be able to use JSONP from the api.pgxn.org server to tweak it how you like. Details:

https://github.com/pgxn/pgxn-api/wiki/JSONP

I use the user JSON file to list my releases on my blog. See the "PGXN Code" sidebar in the right column of http://justatheory.com/. The code that powers it is pretty simple:

<div class="links">
<h2>PGXN Code</h2>
<script type="text/javascript">
function pgxn_distros(data) {
document.write('<dl>');
for (dist in data.releases) {
document.write(
'<dt><a href=http://pgxn.org/dist/' + dist +
'>' + dist + '</a></dt>' +
'<dd>' + data.releases[dist].abstract + '</dd>'
);
}
document.write('</dl>');
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://api.pgxn.org/user/theory.json?callback=pgxn_distros">
</script>
</div>

Best,

David

[David E. Wheeler]

On Nov 7, 2011, at 11:24 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote:

>> are there any buttons with PGXN logo (something like 'available on pgxn'
>> or 'my distributions on pgxh') that I could place on my website?
>> Something like the 'powered by PostgreSQL" buttons available at pgfoundry.
>
> No, but it'd be awesome to have one. Anyone have the tuits to create one? I can get original art work and post it on GitHub later today.

I knew I'd done it already, just had to find it. It's on the old site, here:

http://fundraising.pgxn.org/art/

I'll copy this to the new site, too. So, anyone think they can make a badge like Tomas wants? I assume he's referring to these from pgFoundry:

http://pgfoundry.org/docman/?group_id=1000089

Best,

David

[Tomas Vondra]

Dne 8.11.2011 06:03, David E. Wheeler napsal(a):

I'm no graphic whiz, but I've prepared 4 simple buttons:

1) generic: http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/pgxn-generic.png
2) available on: http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/pgxn-available-on.png
3) my dist.: http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/pgxn-recently.png
4) recent dist.: http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/pgxn-my-distributions.png

Any comments are welcome.

Tomas

[David E. Wheeler]

On Nov 8, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Tomas Vondra wrote:

> I'm no graphic whiz, but I've prepared 4 simple buttons:
>
> 1) generic: http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/pgxn-generic.png
> 2) available on: http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/pgxn-available-on.png
> 3) my dist.: http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/pgxn-recently.png
> 4) recent dist.: http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/pgxn-my-distributions.png

They look pretty good to me!

I had been kind of assuming you wanted a 80x15 image, too, no? Like these:

http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000089/228/button-mini.png
http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/3.0/80x15.png

Either way, I'll be happy to add these to the art page, where folks can link to them directly if they like. I've created a new version of the art page for the new site, but I'm waiting for the new server to be finished before deploying. May be silly, though.

Thanks,

David

[Dickson S. Guedes]

2011/11/8 David E. Wheeler <da...@kineticode.com>:

> On Nov 8, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>> I'm no graphic whiz, but I've prepared 4 simple buttons:
>>
>>  1) generic: http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/pgxn-generic.png
>>  2) available on: http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/pgxn-available-on.png
>>  3) my dist.: http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/pgxn-recently.png
>>  4) recent dist.: http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/pgxn-my-distributions.png
>
> They look pretty good to me!

+1.

--
Dickson S. Guedes
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[David E. Wheeler]

On Nov 8, 2011, at 10:00 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote:

> I had been kind of assuming you wanted a 80x15 image, too, no? Like these:
>
> http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000089/228/button-mini.png
> http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/3.0/80x15.png

BTW, I think most such icons use Silkscreen font.

http://kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/

Best,

David

[David E. Wheeler]

On Nov 8, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Dickson S. Guedes wrote:

>>> I'm no graphic whiz, but I've prepared 4 simple buttons:
>>>
>>> 1) generic: http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/pgxn-generic.png
>>> 2) available on: http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/pgxn-available-on.png
>>> 3) my dist.: http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/pgxn-recently.png
>>> 4) recent dist.: http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/pgxn-my-distributions.png
>>
>> They look pretty good to me!
>
> +1.

Heya, anyone know where these went? I was going to add them to the style guide.

Thanks,

David

[Tomas Vondra]

I've accidentaly deleted them. I've put them back and I've added

http://www.fuzzy.cz/tmp/pgxn.xcf

which is the source file for GIMP. But you'll need the fonts to make it
work properly.

Anyway I'm not a designer or something, so I'm not sure those buttons
are worth putting to the style guide.

Tomas