[fprint] Website, logo, wiki and forum

[Daniel Drake]

Marcio Kovags wrote:
> Ok, I want to contribute to the project and help other users to 
> contribute. One part that is failing on helping user's contribution is 
> the accessibility.
> I was thinking about using Joomla! to manage contents and integrate a 
> mediawiki, forum and downloads integrated with the same style. I have 
> plenty ideas, but i am running out of time on this moment.
> In my humble opinion, using a forum would be more user friendly and more 
> accessible to developers to communicate and exchange information. 

Mailing lists work much better for development in my experience. Also, 
this project is a low-level component which will have much less 
relevance for users once we have achieved decent platform integration.

For these reasons I don't really have any interest in a forum, but I'm 
open to ideas and I guess it might be useful for some people. So, feel 
free to set one up, and if it turns out to be a good resource, perhaps 
we can make it official.

> An IRC channel at freenode, for example, would be good for 
> intrerdevelopement co-operation.

Good idea - please do set one up. I probably will not spend much time 
there, as IRC is distracting enough for me already, however I do like 
this idea.

> About the logo, I've made an SVG file with a fingerprint and been doing 
> some work on it.

Will gladly consider new logo ideas, thanks :)

> About the name, there is also a fail in publicity questions because of 
> fprint could be mistaken with the function printf but as I am not the 
> project coordinator, I cannot make any modifications about this. the 
> only thing that we could do is to reach a consent through users for a 
> better name if they think it is not good.

I don't really mind about publicity as this is not a user-oriented 
project (instead the desktop environments will provide the user 
interfaces when the project has matured further). I also quite like the 
way the name can be viewed as a play on printf(). However I'll happily 
consider new name suggestions :)

> I will shortly begin to port the drivers to Windows operative systems so 
> users that are more used to Windows programming can help on development too.

Great! Please read the recent thread about fpusb. The current 
development version of libfprint will not be portable to windows until 
fpusb is ported there. I am happy to do what I can to help the fpusb 
porting effort, but I do need a knowledgeable windows developer to do 
the bulk of the work.

Thanks for your ideas & enthusiasm!
Daniel