this is a mere echo mail: i want to check how alive this list is.

are there people willing to do a plone-skin? (look at plone.net to see what is possible) because changing from plone to something else is not an option i think. to much work. to much lose.

I really do enjoy the layout on the Processing site (http:// processing.org/), since it is very clean and has lots of pictures and a big fat examples section on the front page. If we are trying to market Pd to new users, this is THE most important thing (as previously asserted).

I also enjoy their utilization of subdomains. We could do this with things like http://gem.puredata.org, http:// gridflow.puredata.org , http://pidip.puredata.org , etc.

Also, it would be best if the forum was attached to the main website by at least a prominent link/redirect, if not actually in server space. But we definitely need more pictures: unless you're trying to show off by running lynx, the internet is not a purely textual medium. Besides, the people who actually DO patch Pd without a GUI probably aren't so interested in visiting a more marketing-oriented site anyway. Maybe we could do http:// nogui.puredata.org?

* What it is, in simple terminology * What people are doing with it * How to install it - where to find different versions, and a sub- page with 'common problems' that people have when installing * Some simple tutorials with patches (the first howto on the current page is Miller's book!)