Welcome to the Ideas and Project Concepts forum

Post by **Oobles** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:34 pm

One of the problems with ps2dev is that generally there are more ideas than time to complete them. This means that many of the best ideas are left and forgotten about. This forum is designed to capture and share ideas so that they are not lost and individuals can offer to be involved in getting them done.

The forum is going to be managed by having a single "Ideas and Project Concepts" thread. The only posts to this thread are to be individual ideas. Responses to or discussions of these ideas are to be placed into their own seperate threads. Any messages to the "Ideas and Project Concepts" thread that are not ideas or project concepts will be deleted.

Before anyone jumps in and posts a message like, "Wouldn't it be cool if we could....". Stop. This is not a dumping ground for bly sky dreaming ideas. It is a place for reasonably well thought ideas that have solid foundations. To ensure this is the case all posts must have a well defined format. I'll use a simple example to illustrate:

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Idea: Modify ps2dev.org to use CSS so that making look and feel changes can happen easier.

Details: ps2dev.org is based on the old style HTML format with little CSS or Javascript. This design makes it difficult to change and skin with new looks and feels. By reworking the design and making it CSS based it will open the door for people to submit skins and hopefully make the site feel more fresh. For CSS ideas see http://www.csszengarden.com/

Benefits:
- It will make it easier to modify and change the look and feel of the web site.
- It will make the site more flexible to change.

Problems & Issues:
- The web site source code is not in subversion.
- A suitable open source license needs to assigned and the source code released if the project is going to get any help.

Time & People required:
- Project needs one person that can run up the site in tomcat.
- Request CSS and HTML experience.
- Requires maybe a couple of weeks part time to finish.

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If people like the project they can offer to help out. If you don't have time to do your own project recording it here will atleast give people a chance to have a go at it.

This forum is a new idea and if people do not use it, it will be removed in a few months. Hopefully people will see it as a valuable tool to help ensure new ideas are not lost.