The Richmond Open Source
Community is a project to provide education and support for Open Source Software on desktops in and around Richmond, Indiana. The Richmond Open Source Community is a project to provide education and support for Open Source Software on desktops in and around Richmond, Indiana.
We use this website as a central point of collaboration. Here we can provide mutual support for each other, plan events and share resources and news about Open Source.
Please join us in our Google Group or contact us for more information.
ROSCO is not meant to be free tech suppport for whiny butts who happen to use open source on their computer.
This site was built using many open source tools. Some of them include:
The primary manager for this website is Mark Stosberg
This website is designed to be easy to contribute to. It's free and easy to sign up for an account.
Once you do so, you can add comments on many pages. There are plans to also allow many people to be able to edit pages directly.
When contributing to the Resource pages, the text should be written as factual documents in the third person. Also, the "Author" field should be left blank, as these pages are to be collectively owned and editted.
Personal opinions can be shared in your own blog.
Blogs are to be owned and editted only by their authors.
For those are users of the del.icio.us bookmarking service, you can tag links with "richmondcomputes.org", which will cause them to be appear on our headlines page once per day.
To clarify the different uses-- in the "resource" section, we might mention multiple alternatives for photo management software, with brief summaries of each.
A longer testimony from a user of why she loves digikam would go in her blog.
If you have other questions about contributing or would like increased ability to edit pages, please contact Mark Stosberg. This is easy to do even if you have never worked on a web page before.
The front page is a special case because it is a our first impression on new visitors, who may also be new to open source on the desktop. To be accessible to this target audience it should strive to be free as possible of acronyms, jargon, and command line references.
For example, an opening sentence of IRC channels, LUG mailing lists, and Ubuntu wikis were buzzing earlier this week... wouldn't belong there, since new users probably won't know what IRC, LUG, Ubuntu or wikis are. For an example of what works well, see how GetGNULinux.org presents Linux to those new to it.
More technical content is still welcome in your blog, and will show up on the Member Blogs page.
If you'd like, you can receive e-mails automatically whenever this website is updated, as frequently as once per day.
To enable that, sign up as a user, and follow the link in the navigation to "my account" and then "my notify settings".
We also provide an RSS feed of changes, which is available from the front page.