What do you think would be most useful for the JS-community? Free subdomains for open-source projects? A CDN ? Community tools like blogs, forums, chats? *@js.org email adresses for "everyone"?
Lets create an online Javascript bible, not the frameworks like angular, ember, backbone etc... But core javascript, objects, constructor functions, bitwise operators. Everything about Javascript language should be there.
You could create an identity system, where users can create personal accounts and have projects, similar to github. Maybe you should simply use github, that way popular projects would keep their well known names.
Do not hustle with email, install a system to handle MX records by the user, maybe with an interface that has some defaults (github, gmail).
After that create an OAUTH provider. Now you can provide other services through partnerships. I would not give away the ability to define custom sub-subdomains, instead let them choose between different service providers for predefined subdomains like these:
* forum.project.js.org
* news.project.js.org
* issues.project.js.org
* mailinglist.project.js.org
Create a skin-able overview of all the services at project.js.org. For the beginning you could simply pull in githubs README and add a navigation bar at the top. Later you could create something more dynamic.
Host an aggregator for each service at:
* js.org/forum
* js.org/news
* js.org/issues
* js.org/mailinglist
After you successfully created an enormous community and locked everybody in, turn evil, go into profit mode and add:
I like the evil part... No, to be serious I just wonder what could be useful. Github (for projekts) and MDN (for docu of core JS) are doing great.
Thanks for your suggestion.
There is site called Ruby Toolbox[1] and I find that helpful for doing the initial research for a library and if its active, useful to me, and how popular.
An initial Google search indicates there is a site like this for JavaScript, but checking it show it is an internet lifetime ago (5-6 years).
A fact based inventory of major JS libraries with downloads, bugs and updated_at stats would be helpful. The challenge would be keeping it fresh. If project "owners" can submit their own info that would help.
You could somehow use it to establish kind of an official page to JS-community. Right now js-community is divided, there is the angular community, the jquery community, the node community, the meteor community, etc, but a JS community that would aggregate all JS project communities is not organized yet. Without it JS will always look less popular than it really is.
thats the point. I think even with a good hosting plan i could handle subdomains only in the hundreds and email adresses in the thousands?!? But how to decide... Even with a focus on open source devs.
subdomain + email is a good thing, setup a invite only "not so" closed beta staging, see if it works. Write a user agreement understanding that this is a test enviroment and making them aknowledge that all their data hosted on that email can be erased.
So you are safe, and can see if it at least work it out.
[+] [-] yunyeng|11 years ago|reply
[+] [-] josemando|11 years ago|reply
[+] [-] kayamon|11 years ago|reply
[+] [-] josemando|11 years ago|reply
Also you could link/redirect references, like the Mozilla one https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript (Mozilla rocks \o/)
[+] [-] califield|11 years ago|reply
e.g. https://js.org/express 301 redirects to https://www.npmjs.com/package/express
Another idea is a blog. One of my favorite blogs is http://npmawesome.com/
[+] [-] jsorg|11 years ago|reply
[+] [-] allendoerfer|11 years ago|reply
Do not hustle with email, install a system to handle MX records by the user, maybe with an interface that has some defaults (github, gmail).
After that create an OAUTH provider. Now you can provide other services through partnerships. I would not give away the ability to define custom sub-subdomains, instead let them choose between different service providers for predefined subdomains like these:
* forum.project.js.org
* news.project.js.org
* issues.project.js.org
* mailinglist.project.js.org
Create a skin-able overview of all the services at project.js.org. For the beginning you could simply pull in githubs README and add a navigation bar at the top. Later you could create something more dynamic.
Host an aggregator for each service at:
* js.org/forum
* js.org/news
* js.org/issues
* js.org/mailinglist
After you successfully created an enormous community and locked everybody in, turn evil, go into profit mode and add:
* jobs.project.js.org
* donate.project.js.org
* sponsors.project.js.org
[+] [-] jsorg|11 years ago|reply
[+] [-] matt_s|11 years ago|reply
An initial Google search indicates there is a site like this for JavaScript, but checking it show it is an internet lifetime ago (5-6 years).
A fact based inventory of major JS libraries with downloads, bugs and updated_at stats would be helpful. The challenge would be keeping it fresh. If project "owners" can submit their own info that would help.
[1] https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/
[+] [-] galfarragem|11 years ago|reply
[+] [-] mdaniel|11 years ago|reply
http://planet.lisp.org/
http://planet.emacsen.org/
http://www.planetnetbeans.org/
http://planetopendata.herokuapp.com/opendatanews?style=hacke...
There are probably several packages which will ease the creation of such a thing, but this is the one I know of: http://www.planetplanet.org/
[+] [-] striking|11 years ago|reply
[+] [-] jsorg|11 years ago|reply
[+] [-] thekillerdev|11 years ago|reply
So you are safe, and can see if it at least work it out.
[+] [-] kevinsimper|11 years ago|reply