JJOS.net

Jamon wrote:What is JJOS.net missing?

A link to JJ's website on the index page.

You can edit the front page and add it: http://jjos.net/page/welcome

What else?

To be honest, even if your intentions are all good, the current site simply looks like it's ripping off jjos. When you get past that, by adding proper links and attribution, you might get more people (myself included) interested in contributing.

Until you are honest and clear with intellectual property, who would bother investing any time in your site? If I write some pages for the manual, maybe you'll do the same to me by removing my name from my writings and then selling the manual as a new MPC ebook or something.

You are not making any friends by not giving any credit to JJ. Saying we can edit the pages ourselves isn't good enough, the first efforts have to come from you.

I added a copyright license at the bottom of the site. It "lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms." Is that what you want?

I don't really like that. If someone wants to use an instrument I uploaded in a song, and sell it, what's the problem? If Tutor wants to copy/paste something I wrote for a book he's selling, what's the problem? I'm okay with requiring credit to the author, but other than that, why should I care what people do with it?

The first link for "JJ OS" on the welcome page was for talking about JJ OS, and has a link to the official site. But I added "Buy" links to the downloads section. That should take care of whatever concern you have about ripping off the makers of the OS, since if people want to use it they have to buy it, from the official site.

Anything else?

it may not be related to specifically the JJOS but possibly download links to the service manuals may be cool... just since it's a resource site.

The site seems to be filling out nicely.

I had a cracking idea though - on the MPC screenshots, if you had a 'roll over' on the different parts of the screenshot, on buttons & the like, a window could appear with the info. Then if you clicked that part, the screenshot relating to that feature would appear. How cool would that be?

You'd need to be a pretty excellent web programmer though. Suppose people with those skills would be to busy earning $$$$$$$$ & ££££££££ & €€€€€€€€ to be showing JJ the love.

But, the site is getting some appreciation Jamon. I've now got a link to it on my browser bar

You should have help links on the wiki Edit page, so we can find out what wiki syntax we should be using

Hi Jamon,

Have you looked at the bootstap framework from twitter which is opensource, it can give you some nice mouse over details and could add in detail to which you and others have described to give information for screenshots. Any way its just ideas, im currently adapting the framework for a test environment for work.

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

You site looks wicked, but if you are into reinventing the wheel and can use the effects the framework uses, then its worth checking....

Respect & Regards,
gonche

Please mark questions as solved by pressing the solution button on the answer.

Please also help update the changelog.

Jamon wrote:Please mark questions as solved by pressing the solution button on the answer.

Please also help update the changelog.

My question on screenshots is not really solved, as I still dont know how to do it. I cant add anything further to the problem/answers on your site though. A description of how to take screenshots and upload them to jjos.net is very good to have for people wishing to contribute to the manual.

On the other hand, it doesnt look like anyone is doing anything with the site, so lets just let it fade away and not bother about it.

innovine wrote:

Jamon wrote:Please mark questions as solved by pressing the solution button on the answer.

Please also help update the changelog.

My question on screenshots is not really solved, as I still dont know how to do it. I cant add anything further to the problem/answers on your site though. A description of how to take screenshots and upload them to jjos.net is very good to have for people wishing to contribute to the manual.

On the other hand, it doesnt look like anyone is doing anything with the site, so lets just let it fade away and not bother about it.

Internet funeral?

There was supposed to be a link in the answer to: http://jjos.net/page/uploading

There'll be no funeral; it'll just be slow to grow, because I'm busy juggling. I'll get back to it eventually. In the meantime, the option is there for some motivated intelligent individual to help author content. There's plenty of info on this forum and the official site that can be organized into JJOS.net pages.

I understand not editing the wiki, despite specifically asking for it, because people are busy, and don't have much motivation. But why not post bugs? Look at Astronaut's looper bug post. Why would that be best posted in a gigantic single thread, with pictures from a camera?

http://jjos.net/problem/2

It's just because when the MPC is frozen you can't use the screen capture function.

Okay, but what's the explanation for why a single forum thread is better than a bug database?