This is a call for enthusiastic convinced and convincing MorphOS users and developers!
Starting from amigadave's initiative to give out free MorphOS systems to interested developers I just set up a mailling list for MorphOS users and developers to form a promotion and support team for MorphOS. If you think you have some constructive thoughts, some hardware to give away, good insight, a skill for communication, are good in contacting other ppl, write/translate/proofread some texts, provide code snippets or contribute with video for youtube or just have constructive #? for MorphOS, come and join this ml to strengthen MorphOS. Just pm me with a brief information who you are and what you may offer.
Let's move some things forward!

[ Editiert durch Zylesea 01.11.2011 - 23:26 ]

Received initial messages.
Good going Zylesea.

Yes, let's move some things forward!

Thanks for setting up the mailing list Zylesea.

Now I hope that the MorphOS Developer Team members will join the list, if only to just watch what is being discussed on the mailing list. If they would also provide their opinions and suggestions on what should and should NOT be done to promote MorphOS, that would be even better.

Ideas welcome, so I hope that more members here will join, even if you don't have much to contribute all the time. You might come up with a great idea that none of the rest of us have thought of.

There is another mailing list that I just joined for owners of G3, G4 and G5 Mac computers. I introduced myself on that list and found out that several of the members of that list are former Amiga users. At least a couple of them have been completely away from the Amiga for years, but are now interested in at least looking at MorphOS, if it will run on the hardware that they already own and most people on that list own several G3, G4 and G5 Mac computers.

This is just one example of new places that we can promote MorphOS, if not done in an overwhelming way that angers the members of such a list that have no interest in the Amiga, or MorphOS. I will bet there are other opportunities like this one to promote MorphOS to the right kind of people that could be interested in it, and have the technical know how to use MorphOS in it's current state.

There was a "book of Pegasos" and a "book of Efika" but I think that a "Book of MorphOS" would be a nice project and newcomers (and perhaps experienced users) may find it interesting.

amigadave,
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Nice one Dave - I think you stole my thunder/idea :) Was this one of LowEndMac.com's mailing lists?


Crumb: I agree, and just made my initial post on the mailing list referencing a similar idea. The work in the "Library" section of this site is essentailly it. :) and maybe we can just update and add to it.

> Was this one of LowEndMac.com's mailing lists?

http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list/browse_thread/thread/cb6248b6cb7a2efe

Debaser,

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I am glad someone remembered.

The best way to attract and keep new users is to improve the documentation, thus lower the barrier of entry. Getting someone to take a quick look is one thing, keeping him around long enough to get him personally invested is another.

Amigadave and Zylesea had both been contacted to help with the MorphZone Library in the past and they have editing rights...

More help and volunteers would be much appreciated. Kudos to Krashan for keeping this resource alive and adding a lot of useful content.


@ Zylesea

Why a secret mailing list, by the way? Is there something to hide? :)

Yes, the G-Group mailing list is one of Low End Mac's mailing lists.

I have promised to work on documentation and other work on the MorphZone.org Library and still plan to fulfill that promise.

The only way I am going to accomplish it is to make a scheduled time to work on it and stick to that schedule. A difficult task for me, as I am easily pulled in many directions at the same time.

The mailing list is not a secret, but Zylesea thought it would be a good thing to have a place where every thought and comment were picked apart in public. A sort of safe place where we could bounce ideas (both good and bad) off of each other and discuss them without being quoted and cross-quoted to other forum sites. No dark secrets, or ill intent meant by making the mailing list private to only those that wish to help promote MorphOS.

I would like to help out with Amitopia TV. I hope I can be a source that can be used. I want to promote MorphOS and use it everyday.

Link:
Amitopia TV

Nice website.
I haven't seen that one before.
If you want to post a notice that we're looking for developers that would like hardware, feel free.

being able to download the ultimate pack from the mos site would be a start, or included in the iso
also having a guide for returning amiga users (those that have not used the system for years) on the mos iso

cheesegrate,
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Unfortunately, Pack Ultimate is not just a compilation of useful applications, it also 'messes' with a lot of configuration options that had been carefully chosen by the development team members.

One might argue that Guido 'geit' Mersmann´s new Grunch software center is a more elegant and flexible option to enable new users to swiftly and effortlessly find the software they need.


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Having a guide like this in the MorphZone Library would be a good start. If you would like to work on it, you are very welcome to do so.

grunch Software center ?

http://www.geit.de/eng_grunch.html

Mixture of packet manager and "app store" (w/o buying though). It's a cool thing and actually works. I think it should become part of MorphOS 3.x.

@ ASiegel

The ml is no secret list and was just set uo to offer another and additional communication tool. The library reminder is good though and I should contribute there eventually. It's a good place to move thigs forward.

Absolutely not meant to be secretive.
We just thought it might bore all you if we went back and forth with proposals that only involved a few of us.