Awesome-D, and an invitation to you awesome guys

[Puming via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 10 August 2014 at 10:01:58 UTC, NCrashed wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 August 2014 at 09:28:48 UTC, Puming wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm maintaining this awesome-d list similar to other 
>> awesome-stuff lists on github, for keeping a hook on 
>> interesting D related links.
>>
>> https://github.com/zhaopuming/awesome-d
>>
>> At first it was only for my personal use, but recently I got 
>> some ideas about it that could potentially contribute to the 
>> community, so here I am making this little announcement and 
>> invating all you awesome guys to help me :-)
>>
>> The ideas are:
>>
>> 1. Awesome-People list that made D awesome.
>> 2. A relation network on github projects
>>
>> First one is about the awesome people, that is you guys. I've 
>> been lurking in this forum for many years (dating back to D1 
>> days). But only recently, after watching the great dconf 
>> videos, have I realized that it is the awesome people that 
>> makes the language/ecosystem awesome. I want to know you. And 
>> I think the new comers of D would also like to know you, each 
>> one of you great guys who made a library/tool that make their 
>> programming life a better place.
>>
>> For lack of information and for the respect of privacy, 
>> currently I have only listed Walter and Andrei on the list, 
>> <https://github.com/zhaopuming/awesome-d#people>. But I'd 
>> really like to know about other people here, like kenji the 
>> great bug killing machie always in the shadow, or bearophile 
>> who studied an endless list of languages and exploded 
>> bugzilla, and many other.
>>
>> For privacy, I think it's best that only the descriptions 
>> provided by people themselves or really related people should 
>> be allowed, or at least a permission is acquired by the 
>> person. (Sorry Walter and Andrei, I haven't asked for your 
>> permissions. But you're the stars and public faces here :-), 
>> privacy for you is a past).
>>
>> I think people would be interesting to know who you are, what 
>> have you done, what do you think about D and it's future, what 
>> are you interesting, etc. Maybe an interview is a better 
>> option, but I don't know how to do that here. Do you guys have 
>> any ideas?
>>
>> For the second stuff, after I made the awesome-d list, the 
>> awesome-awesome list maintainer made a pull request to add 
>> mine to his list and connect. Then I found a list of 
>> awesome-c, awesome-clojure, and all other awesome lists:
>>
>> https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness
>>
>> which is very interesting and a good way to find information.
>>
>> So the similar idea came to me: Why don't try to build a 
>> network about D stuff? D libs are scattered even in 
>> github--you don't have a good way to search for the libs 
>> you're interested in.
>>
>> Now we have code.dlang.org, but it is also a one way list. 
>> Ideally it would be two way: if a person bumped into one of 
>> the D projects, and in the project there is a link that says 
>> "enlisted on code.dlang.org", then he can easily go to 
>> code.dlang.org and see what other interesting, related 
>> projects their are.
>> This is very similar to what "for me on github" does, it makes 
>> a network.
>>
>> Of couse, what I want to have is also "enlisted on awesome-d". 
>> Do you project maintainers think it's good?
>>
>> One last request for help: You might noticed that I'm not a 
>> native english speaker, so there are many grammar or style 
>> problems in the awesome-d list, if you find any, please help 
>> me fix it.
>>
>> Best Regards.
>>
>> Puming
>
> I like the idea to collect useful links, but more useful to 
> collect all info on single portal. Integrate wiki, dlang, 
> code.dlang.org, bugtracker, add some github integration via its 
> api - dreams, the only dreams.

Wow, that is an interesting idea. And that page should be put on 
the first page of dlang.org :-)