Spreading the word about D

[Chris R. Miller]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Robert Fraser wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Chris R. Miller wrote:
>>>> There are many possible choices, so we should probably make a list 
>>>> of advantages and disadvantages of each on Wiki4D or something like 
>>>> that, assuming it does become a community decision (I was always 
>>>> under the impression that what Walter does with his site was his own 
>>>> business, though if he's willing to entertain our ideas that's great 
>>>> too).
>>>
>>> The current D website is set up to need minimal attention to keep it 
>>> running.
>>
>> But if other people could keep it running for you, would you be averse 
>> to that?
> 
> No, but it would be a major job for someone.

I'm just thinking aloud here:

If we were to make a new site, right now I'm thinking that Django would 
be our best option because it can make use of the Pygments code 
highlighter, and because it's quite flexible and could perform many 
different functions for us.  We could (thinking aloud here, remember?) 
make a fairly cool integrated system with a front-facing site for 
Digital Mars and a forum/ng/you-name-it section for the community to 
live in, perhaps using the Python gizmos to link to dsource or something 
like that.  That way Walter and some other trusted people could 
administer the Digital Mars site and the content there as a group, and 
it would allow for a certain level of interoperability with the 
community communication tool (which appears to be the ng at the moment). 
  Maybe even a Mibbit widget tool for the various D-related IRC channels 
as well.  My point is,

static if(walter says it's okay) {
	static if(people who volunteer to do it pick Django/Python) {
		we/they could build a really nifty site that could
		really reflect how awesome D is as a language.
	} else {
		cool, it'll probably be just as good, or better, or else
		it will be good enough.
} else {
	oh well, it was a nice thought.  If wishes were horses, we'd
	need another planet to put them all on we'd have so many.
}

Apologies for the intermixing of English and code, but you must 
understand that I'm postulating out on a limb of quite a few 
assumptions.  I was strongly considering not posting this at all, but I 
figured that it couldn't hurt to whet the imaginations of some of the 
other people out here if I only phrase it right (being as neutral, 
what-if as possible).

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