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[Chris Oliver <excid3@xxxxxxxxx>]

My apologies. Reply To All needs to be default or I will always forget. :P

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chris Oliver <excid3@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Keryx] Profiles Website Idea
To: Senthil Kumar_Rsk <webrsk.ideas@xxxxxxxxx>


Just updated the blog with my example screenshot of the site. (this is
actually all functional right now too! :D) I can't host it on heroku without
storing the uploads somewhere else so I may try to get it working on my
current web host (doubtful) or I may just end up running it on my server at
home. Either way, this would be exceptionally handy for us I think.

Here's the screenshot of the site running locally: http://cl.ly/386Q


On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Senthil Kumar_Rsk <webrsk.ideas@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Cool Idea and best way of using the forums :)  Heroku , I heard more about
> that , let me feel it this time :)
>
> Thanks,
> RSK
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Chris Oliver <excid3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I love the idea of using the forum for now. What's surprisingly actually
>> is how quickly I could build this with rails and deploy it to heroku (like
>> the new download counter). I'm probably going to build it sometime when I am
>> bored. Just should be some minor packaging code with ruby into a zip and
>> that's about it.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:24 AM, mac9416 <mac9416@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey, RSK,
>>>
>>> We are guessing that many users' offline computers are physically a
>>> long way from them, forcing them to travel that distance to create a
>>> profile then come back to start downloading apps. Providing pre-made
>>> profiles for download allows the user to get started downloading apps
>>> for their offline machine immediately.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Senthil Kumar_Rsk
>>> <webrsk.ideas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > Would be great if you can explain me , why creating profile by the user
>>> > itself through Keryx will take more time? They can easily create
>>> profiles of
>>> > the offline machine of any distribution(of apt support) and they
>>> proceed on
>>> > rite. Any reason providing profile for download?
>>> > Throw some lights on me :) :)
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > RSK
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 6:19 PM, mac9416 <mac9416@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I really like the idea. It would get the community involved in making
>>> >> Keryx more useful to more people.
>>> >>
>>> >> Only trouble is it looks like something that could take a lot of
>>> >> coding time, which is something we don't have in excess.
>>> >>
>>> >> Perhaps we could have a temporary implementation of this using the
>>> >> forum. We could open a new forum section with a sticky explaining how
>>> >> to submit profiles. Reviews could simply be replies on a profile
>>> >> thread, and moderator approval could be given by adding something to
>>> >> the thread title.
>>> >>
>>> >> That would save us the time necessary to build a new website.
>>> >>
>>> >> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Chris Oliver <excid3@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> > I had this idea and wanted to gauge interest in it. Right now it's
>>> quite
>>> >> > a
>>> >> > pain for us to create new profiles. Not always do us as developers
>>> >> > upgrade
>>> >> > to the latest Ubuntu, and we certainly do not have copies of every
>>> >> > version
>>> >> > or other distros like Debian and Linux Mint.
>>> >> > Taking this into consideration, I would like to propose a profile
>>> >> > submission
>>> >> > site for the Keryx community. The site would be simply as follows:
>>> >> > - Give an example of how to create a new profile for common distros
>>> >> > (this
>>> >> > can be applied indirectly to other apt based distros)
>>> >> > - Provide default profiles for other people to use
>>> >> > - Allow users to submit their own profiles so that people do not
>>> have to
>>> >> > wait on us developers to post them
>>> >> > - Votes can be cast upon submitted profiles along with comments
>>> >> > regarding
>>> >> > them. This allows the community to keep track of which profiles
>>> possibly
>>> >> > were incorrectly created and we could avoid them
>>> >> > Keryx 1.1 could provide download access to "verified" profiles from
>>> its
>>> >> > interface. After a profile has gotten good reviews or has been
>>> verified
>>> >> > by a
>>> >> > moderator, it would be put on a list that would show up in the Keryx
>>> >> > home
>>> >> > tab. This way we can make sure to keep a high level of quality for
>>> >> > profiles
>>> >> > while still letting the community help us out doing things.
>>> >> > What do you think? I hope I explained the idea clearly enough but
>>> feel
>>> >> > free
>>> >> > to ask questions because I'm sure I missed something important that
>>> I
>>> >> > wanted
>>> >> > to convey.
>>> >> > (Cross posted to the blog)
>>> >> > --
>>> >> > Chris Oliver
>>> >> > http://excid3.com
>>> >> >
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Chris Oliver
>> http://excid3.com
>>
>
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