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| RISC OS Connect Arrives |
| News Desk 02/02/2008 00:20:16 |
| After much prevarication RISC OS Connect goes live today 2nd February 2008.
RISC OS Connect is a web based initiative to connect the as yet un-exploited people of the RISC OS community to each other. The people we are hoping to attract are both programmers and non-programmers. People who want to contribute to the ongoing developments in some way. Initially the main focus of the website will be around the Skills Database. This is a collection of people who have added themselves and described what function they are able to perform. The main site can be found here: http://www.riscos-connect.org. From here you will find more information about RISC OS Connect, related news, links and the Skills Database. Whether or not this is a success depends on you. The Skills database is open to all. From here, if you wish, you can create an account and input the areas you feel you are best suited to be able to render your services. Or you can simply view the database to see who is available and what they can do. A mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/riscos-connect) is also available. This is open for anyone to join and to be used to discuss related matters. This is also the place to submit your ideas for further development of both the site and the RISC OS Connect initiative. The basic idea behind the RISC OS Connect website is to indicate what resources are still available within the community. Knowing what resources are available is very useful to developers, who perhaps have time to do the programming, but not time write user manuals and other non-programming related activities. The developer would then be able to use the RISC OS Connect site to locate people who are able/willing to write user guides or other tasks they need performing, thus allowing the developer to concentrate on their program. Alternatively the Skills Database could be used to put together a small programming team with people who have a varying skill set. The opportunities are there. You just have to take them. As alluded to above this is a new initiative to connect resources within the RISC OS Community. The origins of RISC OS Connect come from a discussion on the Drobe new portal back in April 2007. You can view this discussion and subsequent articles here: - http://www.drobe.co.uk/forum/index.php?task=view_topic&forum_id=6&topic_id=725 http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1944.html RISC OS Connect does not seek to replace various other on-line efforts such as riscos.info and RISC OS Open. We aim to coexist and provide a service that neither site currently offer. Our aim is to provide a connection point for disparate parts of the RISC OS community and bring them together in a useful and constructive manner. So welcome, come in and enjoy the fun! |