http://www.ocaml.org

http://www.ocaml.org

[Richard Jones]

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There's been some discussion about:

http://www.ocaml.org/

At the moment it's particularly embarrassing - it hasn't been updated
since mid last year, and it points to an old release of the language.
Is there any movement on getting it repointed to http://caml.inria.fr?
Is there anything we in the community can do to help?  For example if
there are lack of resources to build or run a new ocaml.org site, then
Merjis have an Objective CAML-based CMS which we can deploy.

Rich.

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Re: [Caml-list] http://www.ocaml.org

[henri dubois-ferriere]

there was  a discussion on this 6 months ago

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+xavier+leroy+www.ocaml.org+julian&hl=en&lr=&selm=fa.dmb8s9e.1dmqh06%40ifi.uio.no&rnum=2

henri




On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:04:57 +0100, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
> 
> There's been some discussion about:
> 
> http://www.ocaml.org/
> 
> At the moment it's particularly embarrassing - it hasn't been updated
> since mid last year, and it points to an old release of the language.
> Is there any movement on getting it repointed to http://caml.inria.fr?
> Is there anything we in the community can do to help?  For example if
> there are lack of resources to build or run a new ocaml.org site, then
> Merjis have an Objective CAML-based CMS which we can deploy.
> 
> Rich.
> 
> --
> Richard Jones.  http://www.annexia.org/  http://www.j-london.com/
> >>>   http://www.team-notepad.com/ - collaboration tools for teams   <<<
> Merjis Ltd. http://www.merjis.com/ - improving website return on investment
> http://youunlimited.co.uk/ - Personal improvement courses
> 
> 
>

Re: [Caml-list] http://www.ocaml.org

[Richard Jones]

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On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 04:36:22PM +0200, henri dubois-ferriere wrote:
> there was  a discussion on this 6 months ago

I know!  Precisely why I was asking if anything was happening :-)

Rich.

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Learn Objective CAML - http://www.merjis.com/developers

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Re: [Caml-list] http://www.ocaml.org

[Xavier Leroy]

> There's been some discussion about:
> http://www.ocaml.org/
> At the moment it's particularly embarrassing - it hasn't been updated
> since mid last year, and it points to an old release of the language.

I just performed the minimal update you suggest.

> Is there any movement on getting it repointed to http://caml.inria.fr?

The original plan was to do that once the redesign of the
caml.inria.fr / caml.org site is complete.  However, the author of the
new site defended his PhD and left earlier than expected, leaving us
with a 90%-completed site that no one wants to finish :-(

Of course, we could repoint ocaml.org now to the current caml.inria.fr
site, but that might be a step backwards in terms of modern look.

> Is there anything we in the community can do to help?  For example if
> there are lack of resources to build or run a new ocaml.org site, then
> Merjis have an Objective CAML-based CMS which we can deploy.

As usual, the main issues are not technical, i.e. who is going to
write what, etc.

- Xavier Leroy

Re: [Caml-list] http://www.ocaml.org

[Wolfgang Müller]

On Thursday 28 October 2004 17:44, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> Of course, we could repoint ocaml.org now to the current caml.inria.fr
> site, but that might be a step backwards in terms of modern look.

I personally think content beats looks. If you're afraid of the bad looks just 
put a volunteers wanted site up (IMHO).

Cheers,
Wolfgang

-- 
Dr. Wolfgang Müller
LS AI 1
Universität Bayreuth

Re: [Caml-list] http://www.ocaml.org

[Nicolas Cannasse]

> The original plan was to do that once the redesign of the
> caml.inria.fr / caml.org site is complete.  However, the author of the
> new site defended his PhD and left earlier than expected, leaving us
> with a 90%-completed site that no one wants to finish :-(

Maybe if you post his email address here and if everybody is sending him a
nice email asking him to finish the website it might somehow works :)
Another solution is to put theses 90% sources somewhere and see what's the
community can get out of it.

Regards,
Nicolas Cannasse

Re: [Caml-list] http://www.ocaml.org

[Richard Jones]

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On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 06:16:24PM +0200, Wolfgang Müller wrote:
> I personally think content beats looks. If you're afraid of the bad
> looks just put a volunteers wanted site up (IMHO).

Content is definitely most important.

I can create a COCANWIKI-based wiki and/or a COCANWIKI-based CMS (I
suggest you probably need both - the CMS for the main site, and a wiki
to encourage user contribution areas).

We can host it on our servers, at no cost to you obviously.
Alternately if you have a spare Linux/BSD/Solaris server you can host
it there.  We have source and .debs here:

http://sandbox.merjis.com/release
http://sandbox.merjis.com/debian_packages

The .debs should install directly on a Debian/testing machine with
Apache 1.3 & PostgreSQL 7.4.

To get an idea of how it's possible to style COCANWIKI and use it as a
CMS, have a look at: http://www.team-notepad.com/ (this site is driven
from a COCANWIKI server, styled with CSS and with edit permissions
enabled so that only authorized users can edit).

Rich.

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>>>   http://www.team-notepad.com/ - collaboration tools for teams   <<<
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Re: [Caml-list] http://www.ocaml.org

[Christopher A. Watford]

Perhaps you could show us the potential new site design? I'd be happy
to finish it up the HTML/design for y'all if thats all that is needed.
If more is required, I don't see it as an immediate problem either.

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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:44:11 +0200, Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr> wrote:
> > There's been some discussion about:
> > http://www.ocaml.org/
> > At the moment it's particularly embarrassing - it hasn't been updated
> > since mid last year, and it points to an old release of the language.
> 
> I just performed the minimal update you suggest.
> 
> > Is there any movement on getting it repointed to http://caml.inria.fr?
> 
> The original plan was to do that once the redesign of the
> caml.inria.fr / caml.org site is complete.  However, the author of the
> new site defended his PhD and left earlier than expected, leaving us
> with a 90%-completed site that no one wants to finish :-(
> 
> Of course, we could repoint ocaml.org now to the current caml.inria.fr
> site, but that might be a step backwards in terms of modern look.
> 
> > Is there anything we in the community can do to help?  For example if
> > there are lack of resources to build or run a new ocaml.org site, then
> > Merjis have an Objective CAML-based CMS which we can deploy.
> 
> As usual, the main issues are not technical, i.e. who is going to
> write what, etc.
> 
> - Xavier Leroy
> 
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Re: [Caml-list] http://www.ocaml.org

[Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons]

    Bonjour,

I would just like a link to Caml Weekly News.

        Diego Olivier

Re: [Caml-list] http://www.ocaml.org

[Alan Schmitt]

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* Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons (Diego.FERNANDEZ_PONS@etu.upmc.fr) wrote:
>     Bonjour,
> 
> I would just like a link to Caml Weekly News.

It would indeed be a nice alternative way for newcomers to look at 
what's happening in the caml world, without diving too deep in the 
mailing list archives.

But I'm completely biased when endorsing this idea ;-)

Alan Schmitt

http://sardes.inrialpes.fr/~aschmitt/cwn/

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