Virtual Interview Request (was :Re: Project Permafrost -- A Restoration Attempt)

Dear "mulenmar,"

My name is Scott "DeepGeek" Fitzgerald, and I have a small
news podcast at www.talkgeektome.us.

I have within that project a "virtual interview"
sub-project. What I do, (since I hate the sound of recorded
telephone conversations,) is ask people to record
themselves answering questions. I then stitch it together
with me "asking" questions to create an interview, which I
find has the advantages of sounding great as well as being
peculiarly focused on the interviewee.

I was wondering if you might be interested in doing one on
Project Permafrost with me.

BTW, you can check out how these come out at my webpage.

Thanks!
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Scott "DeepGeek" Fitzgerald
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:09:43 -0800 (PST)
mulenmar <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've been working on something for a while now, and those
> of you who monitor the #icewm IRC channel on Freenode
> have heard about it already.
> 
> It's something I've titled "Project Permafrost", as an
> excuse to make an ice-related pun. :P It's intended to
> address the few weaknesses IceWM has, such as the
> following:
> 
> * The documentation is misorganized and incomplete, with
> empty sections in the manual, information on making
> themes scattered haphazardly between the IceWM manual and
> an even more atrocious Theming How-to, and incorrect info
> at several points. (Sorry, just the facts.)
> 
> * IceWM is on its third theme hosting site now, and each
> time a new one has been chosen is because the old one
> disappeared or deleted all the themes. The current site
> makes no effort whatsoever to make sure the themes don't
> violate trademark law, making it basically host to
> "illegal software." :roll: 
> 
> * Many themes have been almost entirely lost, and most of
> them that I recovered before they went completely extinct
> have unclear licenses and/or trademark violations. They
> can't be fixed without their author's permission, since
> they're technically copyrighted works by default in my
> country.
> 
> But what IceWM is lacking the most, IMO, is an organized
> and *active* community core. The closest thing to a
> centralized community I've found is in the Puppy Linux
> forums, where it appears all the themes created are
> specific to their distro. Otherwise, I've seen plenty of
> IceWM fans scattered throughout the forums of various
> GNU/Linux distributions -- Ubuntu and Arch, for example
> -- but no obvious thought to contribute back to the
> software project. :(
> 
> That's where Project Permafrost and its forum come in.
> With a central community more searchable and personal
> (not in a privacy-intrusive way, don't worry) than a
> mailing list, perhaps people will be more inclined to
> collaborate on new, updated documentation, or to create
> themes that are attractive yet lightweight enough to be
> used with old machines and be included in the upstream
> repo :D. 
> 
> We have a window manager that has transparency support
> and fewer dependencies, yet is simple to configure and
> use -- we can and should show this off, and bring IceWM
> to the forefront of Freedesktop software!
> 
> Come register and look around -- there isn't much to the
> forum yet, and it's Sourceforge-hosted (no custom themes,
> apparently), but it's a start. :D 
> 
> 
>       
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