Blair "Cowhand" Fannin has agreed to start pulling together the directory of tools that understand OPML for the support site.

He'll be at SxSW but maybe we can help him get started by listing some of the tools we know about. And any suggestions you have about organizing the directory would be good too.

This is Dave's original post wishing for such a thing. And this is something I blogged about it.

As I mentioned to Blair in e-mail, he might have more success getting input here in the discussion group that trying to do it via instant outliner. (Just today Donovan and I were both just pouting about our lack of success in pushing IOing.)

Posted by Amy Bellinger on 3/10/06; 1:36:45 PM

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Privileges of membership and getting on the stick

Well, good, we have five people who have created accounts here, besides me and Dave. I know you have to be logged in to post a message, but I haven't read up yet on any other rights. Anybody know?

I think pretty soon, like tomorrow, it will be time to stop talking about talking about the docs and support site and start doing it, doncha think? I haven't heard what the tentative timetable is.

("You'd better get on the stick" is something my mom says. I know how it's used -- I heard it enough when I was a kid -- but I can't imagine where the phrase might have come from.)

Posted by Amy Bellinger on 3/10/06; 1:06:07 PM

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Here's the RSS feed link. If you sub to it, you'll get all the forum messages, plus the news items posted to the home page. Posted by Amy Bellinger on 3/10/06; 8:06:08 AM Discuss

This is more like it

Dave was right. I was trying to do two different things that were too different, in making the site do double duty as the draft 1.0 site and a place for community volunteers to work and talk.

Let me take a shot at defining what gets talked about where -- now and when 1.0 is released. Somebody tell me if I'm full of shit.

Now

Questions about using the beta software get asked in a number of places

- The Yahoo! Groups mailling lists: opml-newbies and opmlsupport. Opmlsupport is for more advanced users, and it's linked to the current support.opml.org comments (when you post a comment on support.opml.org, it's added to the message listing on the mailing list).

- Informally, there's some help via crosstalk on the blogs and in individual OPML blog comments.

- Dave makes announcements mostly as posts at support.opml.org, but sometimes announces minor community things on the mailing lists. Hardcore geek posts go on geeks.opml.org (now get otta here).

- Dan's OPMLcommunity.org blog was set up for easier discussion about community server issues. We tried to use it for more general community work, but Dave couldn't get registered...

- and we finally settled on the Manila site for general community discussion. Now here's where somebody needs to set me straight if I'm not seeing this clearly, but I'm thinking this new Manila site is for volunteers working on the docs and site and any other tasks running up to the 1.0 release. I'm thinking it's not a support site for users who aren't working on something for the application.

Post 1.0

There's some time to kick this around. I think it will be a good thing to have discussion on this site, wade in our surroundings, and gague its suitability for support forums. Most open source software supported by a volunteer community have web-based discussion. They're usually searchable and archived, they work pretty well for the purpose, and it's kind of the convention anymore.

I've been picturing the 1.0 site as having four sections mapping to the grok, grab, mash and help buttons on the draft site. I can see the developers' headquarters (mash) having a separate discussion group from the user support forum.

Post a response by hitting the discuss link. I'd like to hear what everybody thinks. Then we can start to work.

Posted by Amy Bellinger on 3/10/06; 12:09:53 AM

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