[hylafax-users] new community site

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Everyone,

I've spent some time over the last few weeks and now believe that I have 
got everything set up well at the Sourceforge HylaFAX site:

 http://hylafax.sourceforge.net

I've updated the content of the web pages, including the How-To, and 
I've removed some other content that I felt had become so outdated that 
the information would be better off gone than left in-place. I've also 
made an effort to simplify the site... making it easier for newcomers 
(who are probably the ones that need most to use the site) to navigate 
and get to information useful to them.  I have not yet finished updating 
the HylaFAQ, as I imagine that it will take a fair amount of time to 
clean that up (content as well as fixing some link names and things).

I've also started uploading "sub-releases" to the Sourceforge HylaFAX 
site.  My thoughts behind sub-releases are to simply label a cut of CVS 
HEAD at regular, frequent (like every month during periods of "heavy" 
development) as a sub-release and hang it up on there.  The intent of 
this is to increase exposure to new developments and fixes in the code 
without needing to battle through the sometimes lengthy release process.

Why have I set up the Sourceforge HylaFAX site?

Truthfully, it's an act of mercy.  The hylafax.org domain registrant is 
desireous, as you may well be able to tell, to use the domain for 
commercial purposes.  This is the registrant's right.  The recent 
announcement of a sponsored site reworking will likely only result in 
further commercialization.  In the past I have been very much opposed to 
this trend, and it has caused too much friction.  Certainly we should be 
able to understand the registrant's desire to profit from the investment 
that has been made and the rather lustrous community that has sprung up 
around it.  I can understand that, and my hope, then, is that the 
existence of the Sourceforge HylaFAX site will allow the hylafax.org 
registrant to proceed without any further complaints from me.

The Sourceforge HylaFAX site has its own set of mailing lists, and I 
invite any who wish to participate in the HylaFAX community there to 
feel free to so do.  I'm there, of course.

Thanks,

Lee.

P.S. Admittedly there still will be some degree of usual Sourceforge 
advertisement going on at the new site, which includes a small footer to 
mailing list posts (similar to what's done on this list) and banner-ads 
on some "behind-the-scenes" web pages (like the Tracker).  I'm not able 
to change this; however, it is limited to that extent.


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