[scribus-dev] new scribus community site

[Frank Karlitschek]

On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I'm running openDesktop.org, KDE-Look.org, GNOME-Look.org and other
> > websites for Free software.
> >
> > I noticed that there is no real community site where Scribus users and
> > developers can share Templates, Scripts, Fonts and other Stuff.
> > I had a scribus category on KDE-Files.org but not a complete site
> > dedicated to Scribus.
> >
> > So I created www.scribusstuff.org . It is part of the openDesktop.org
> > network. So
> > if you have an account on GNOME-Look.org on any other website you can
> > login.
> >
> > There is also a public api if you want to fetch and integrate the
> > stuff into other websites or Scribus.
> > http://api.scribusstuff.org
> >
> > I hope this is helpfull for you and the Scribus users.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > I you have ideas or suggestions how to improve the site please send me
> > a mail.
>
> We actually have the wiki site which is not being used to its full
> potential. Right now there is a major reorganization of Scribus sites as
> they switch to Drupal, and I suspect that this will allow for a larger
> variety of uploads/downloads to take place.

Please tell me if there is something I can do to help you.

> Also, I can't speak for the devs for the Scribus project, but I suspect
> that they would appreciate it if you indicate that yours is not an
> official Scribus site. You are using an official Scribus logo on your
> masthead, so it may be confusing to some.
> One thing we do not have on any official site is outside advertising.

I sorry. I will remove the logo if you want. 

The google banners help me to pay the hosting. The openDesktop.org site are 
generation several TeraBytes of Traffic a month a huge load on the servers.

>
> Greg

Cheers
Frank

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Frank Karlitschek
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