Owning the goddamn servers

[elz]

So with the ongoing delicious fail, there are a lot of conversations out there about building our own version, and one thing that got me thinking about was how useful it might be to have group for developers/programmers/sysadmins in fandom so that it's easier for people to find each other when these sorts of "let's just build it ourselves!" projects come up and for people to ask for/share advice about projects they're currently working on.

So, two questions:

a) Would you be interested in such a thing?

b) If so, what would be the most useful format? DW community, website, forum, IRC channel, Google group, something else, more than one of the above? I'm happy to set something up - a DW comm would be easy, but would people use it?

Comments

[samvara]

are non-technical people invited?

[elz]

Always! <3

[samvara]

I would totally lurk on a DW community and volunteer my expertise as I could. Anything that allows email subscription wold fill that niche for me

[cesy]

I'd be interested, obviously. It would be worth polling the #dreamwidth IRC channel about this, I think - that's the other big group of people you'd need to include for it to work well.

[rusty_halo]

This is is a great idea. I'd be interested, though not sure how much time I'd have to commit.

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I wrote a piece about the problems plepoe with disabilities have accessing technology a couple of years ago, and was surprised how easy it would be in many cases to make changes, and how little many web designers/developers seem to care about the issue (WHY are they still using Flash on sites, for example?)I use Tumblr but I'm really unimpressed with the lack of functionality in general. I used to manage my blogging by writing posts in advance but then they took away the ability to properly schedule posts, and it became too tiring for me to go in every day and post things. WordPress has been much easier. I think a lot of users are really clueless about little things they can do to improve accessibility on their sites/blogs — things like using alt tags. I have disabilities and didn't get that until fairly recently. Obviously plepoe need to educate themselves, but I'd love to see more being written about this (not necessarily here, just in general).Dianeb4s last [type] ..