[compiz] Compiz Community

[David Reveman]

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 15:05 -0500, Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 November 2006 14:30, Mike Dransfield wrote:
> > Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm new to compiz and to this list but I'd like to contribute. I couldn't
> > > find a more appropriate place to ask a few questions about the compiz
> > > project (which is actually my first question).
> > >
> > > 1. Since the apparent compiz/beryl fork I don't see a compiz "community"
> > > site. Is there one?
> >
> > The compiz.biz site is looking good at the moment,  many thanks to Ben.
> > I particularly like the open box mod to the old cube.
> >
> 
> Yes, I like it too. Referencing the cube, flexible panes, Pandora's box kinda 
> image...
> 
> > > 2. Is compiz going to continue to be developed, and if so, is there a
> > > road map for future development/migration?
> >
> > Compiz has always been in development, in fact today we see 2 new
> > very interesting plugins.  Hopefully everyone can put forward their ideas
> > for Compiz direction.  I personally feel that most of the core is fairly
> > done,
> > any new developments can be confined to plugins.  I will brain dump onto
> > the forums about my thoughts as soon as I have the time.
> >
> > > 3. There was some discussion on the beryl site over the last few days and
> > > it appears that Guillaume has agreed to stop redirecting the compiz sites
> > > to beryl. Is he also releasing the ownership of the compiz.net and
> > > compiz.org domains? Is anyone following up on that? Are there plans to
> > > launch a new compiz site?
> >
> > I am not sure if he is prepared to transfer the domains over, I think he
> > might
> > be.
> 
> They may have changed their minds about returning the domains. The 
> re-direction message is back on compiz.org and they appear to have a new 
> compiz forum shell on compiz.net. I personally have nothing at stake here but 
> it seems odd to have one branch of a fork manage the community site for the 
> other branch.
> 
> > I am available to work out a transfer, although I would rather it 
> > was transfered
> > to David.  David, would you be prepared to accept ownership of the domain?
> 
> Makes sense if Guillaume and David agree.

Sure, I can accept the ownership.

-David