[Denemo-devel] Website: Part 2 (and Promotion)

[N. Gey]

Hi list,

Website
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The basic website is nearly ready. I want to tell you some of its features.
Certain users, the developers, will be granted with the right to add and 
change content.
Content is a newspost, called "story", on the one side and simple pages 
on the other.
The pages are there already. The main page is the Information page which 
shows what denemo is.

Pictures can be built in anywhere, even as a standalone newspost (simply 
called Image in the create content menu)

The newsposts can be created on the right side of the page, in your user 
menu. If you create a story it will automaticly show up on the front page.

I have also made a git-ticker to the page, so that people will always 
see some update, even If we don't write any real news.

The ticker, and some other parts of the cms, require a working cron-job 
system. Jeremiah, is it too much for the server to have cronjobs enabled?
I planned to create daily a cronjob wich will fetch the manual out of 
the git repository (so git would be needed on the server also) and 
create a pdf page out of it, which will be placed on the manual page.
So there will be an downloadable, up-to-date pdf manual on the page 
without human work.
If you know a better way how to create a pdf manual please let me know.


There are still a few things to be done before showing the website to 
other people:

-The page must be able to send mails

-The Information page lacks content. Please write down the main features 
and a bit about whats planned in the future. Or anything that comes into 
your mind. But please write in "leadstyle": Important information, in 
short, first, and details at the end.

-The Download and Sources page needs to be filled with binaries. Since I 
know where the Linux binaries and release-tars are there is still 
Richards seperate windows page. But this is a special point that leads 
directly to:

Promotion
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After all I volunteered to bring denemo to a bigger public audience. For 
this there are some points which are confusing and need to be solved:

-Richard has a seperated page for windows builds of denemo, complete 
with a changelog. I think this is not needed anymore. Why not adding the 
windows binaries to the savannah download page and using denemo.org 
(news and download page) for further announcing. So there will be only 
one page (denemo.org) for binary.

-The sourceforge page should be deleted. I know this is a difficult task 
since Adam is not saying anything anymore. I want to contact sourceforge 
again, if you allow me to do it.

-The Savannah Homepage (html version) needs to be cut down to a simple 
announcement, fulfilling the savannha-requested information.  However, 
it should lead the user directly to denemo.org after that.

-The denemo user mailing lists is practically not used. I recommend to 
delete it and getting all users to use the dev list, concentrating 
support and discussion.  If its not possible to dev-talk anymore 
(unlikely) then we can think about a user list again, or even a forum on 
the new page, since users seem to prefer bulletinbords while devs seem 
to like mailing lists better.

-I will search through the web and contact webmasters to change their 
links and/or write some article about denemo.  This includes wikipedia.

Finally I ask you to allow me to completly organize and execute a 
promotion and announcement campaign (in the web). For that I have to 
know what the main goal of denemo is:

On the old page there was written that denemo aims not to be complete 
and leaves textwork on the lilypond sourcefile to the user. Reading the 
mailing list I think this not up-to-date anymore. It seems that the devs 
believe it would be nice if denemo could create a complete lilypond file 
and using 100% of the lilypond possibilities without seeing the ly 
file/. I think this is not too much to say, even if this task is not 
complete yet.

Second I read about playback inside Denemo, highlighting the Notes which 
are played currently. ("/Denemo will be able to play notation files 
karoke style with scrolling playback")/ What about that? I never saw 
that, I only could use Denemo to generate midi files.

Third: Should I search for help to implement a ALSA and JACK (and LASH) 
client to denemo?

so far...

Nils


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