[Asterisk-Users] - ACAN - the Asterisk Comprehensive Archive Network (was RE: GPL thoughts)

[Adam Goryachev]

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 04:23, Steve Kann wrote:
> Adam Goryachev wrote: 
> > On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:37, Jim Van Meggelen wrote:
> I think that it's hard to reach a critical mass on a project like
> this.  The way I see it, there's 4 places people will probably look
> for asterisk add-ons right now:
> 
> [in no particular order]:
> 
> 1) asterisk.org 
> 2) The wiki
> 3) bugs.digium.com
> 4) google.
> 
> The part that is important in your "ACAN" idea is "comprehensive", and
> right now, the most comprehensive place is probably the union of the
> wiki and bugs.digium.com.  

True, personally though, I would use them in this order:
1) The wiki
2) bugs.digium.com
3) google

I have never seen anything on asterisk.org about any add-on etc...

In the land of Big Brother, we also have a wiki (may/may not be working
right now) at www.blubrick.com/bb, and things work well. Lots of useful
info on the wiki, and lots of files on deadcat. Sometimes a very active
mailing list as well (has quietened down in the last couple of years...)

So, I certainly wouldn't want to try and duplicate the wiki, but I see
the wiki as being for documentation, and ACAN as a file archive.

> The structure of your site is nice -- just like freshmeat.  Is there a
> real advantage in using this site, as opposed to freshmeat, with
> appropriate "trove" categories?

Generally it was based on a combination of freshmeat and download.com,
plus any other random ideas I happened to have along the way. As far as
advantages, AFAIK, freshmeat doesn't allow you to upload a file, it
simply points to wherever you decide to publish the file. A lot of
people aren't going to setup a web server, and a couple of web pages
just so they can share their neat asterisk extensions macro....

I see that as being one of the main advantages. The next one being that
you can simply browse any file on the website, and sooner or later you
will come across something that looks very interesting.

Just a couple of thoughts on the matter.

Oh, and the website again (since I remove my .sig for this mailing list)
is www.websitemanagers.com.au/asterisk

Regards,
Adam