On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:32:33 -0400 "Alain Forget" <aforget@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: ciphershed-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ciphershed- > >bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen R Guglielmo > >Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 09:15 > >To: ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >Subject: [ciphershed] Re: Website review > > > >On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Niklas Lemcke - 林樂寬 > ><compul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> * I didn't know you could say "a software". (?) Sounds weird to me, but > >> then again I'm not a native speaker. > > > >"A software" sounds wrong to me. Maybe "a software project" or "a > >software program" or something, but not just "a software." > > "A software" is definitely incorrect. Depending on the context, "a software > project", "a software program", "an application", or others can be used. But > "software" must always be grammatically treated as plural, even when it may > not be. > > I'm happy leaving the sentence as it is in the original version. > > >> * From all I know "for keeping" is far better than "to be used to > >> keep" which is unnecessarily bulky & long & confusing. It's what I > >> understand as (and learned as) bad style. > > Yeah, we should avoid this usage at all. So maybe something like this; > "...encryption software to increase the security and privacy of your data." > > >> * I'm having trouble understanding "conducted via open-source > >> platform". To me that sounds like we use open source platforms to run > >> the project, not that the code we develop is open-source. > > Yeah, this suggestion makes the sentence inaccurate. Honestly, I don't > understand the need to change our original sentence. > > >> * Maybe we should have the CipherShed mailing list run on > >> @lists.ciphershed.org as well? She has a good point here. After all > >> mailman is already set up, and setting up a new list would only take a > >> few seconds. > > > >Ah, the VA thing was an advertisement. I vote on moving it to > >lists.ciphershed.org as well! So we'll have pmc@ (non-archived closed > >list), and users@ (archived public list) maybe? > > I thought about asking if we could move/switch the mailing list to a > ciphershed.org domain as well, but I thought it might be too much hassle > since we're all accustomed to where it is now. However, especially now that > someone outside the project has mentioned it and we have our own mailing list > capabilities, I feel more strongly that we should indeed move to our own > domain for our general mailing list (hopefully before Jos' hordes show up!). > > However, there should maybe be two public mailing lists, one for users > (users@) to ask questions about the software and maybe suggest improvements > (but do we want to do tech support? I'm leaning towards yes, because it will > help adoption and show where we can improve usability-wise, even though it > would be a drag on our time), and another list for developers/contributors > (devs@). Please have a few more people give their opinion on this, and then I will create the lists tomorrow. We should still link to this archive though. I think three lists might be a little much. Then again a distinction between dev and user might be good as soon as the hordes appear (which I hope they will :D) > > Alain > > -- Niklas - 林樂寬
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