Re: [documentliberation-discuss] Improving the Document Liberation Project website

Hi J.B.,

Those are some good suggestions -- thanks. I'll put them on the todo 
list!

Mike


On 18.06.2016 01:27, J.B. Nicholson wrote:
> Mike Saunders wrote:
> > Any other feedback welcome!
>
> I suggest the following:
>
> - place the entire website behind HTTPS and adding
> documentliberation.org and *.documentliberation.org to the current
> certificate's set of supported domains (the Certificate Subject Alt
> Name). If you need a gratis certificate, consider using Let's Encrypt
> certificates because they're gratis and they offer an API that lets
> websites automatically handle renewals. Right now the certificate I
> get for https://www.documentliberation.org/ is a certificate for
> documentfoundation.org, *.documentfoundation.org, and
> www.documentfoundation.org.
>
> - use HTML5's video element with a WebM version of the video stored on
> the same server as the website.
>
> - Make it easy to know exactly how one can contribute documents and
> rendered images so people can upload documents. For instance, I have a
> stash of documents in formats used by older computers (such as
> Commodore 64 word processors) which, in my spare time, I'm working on
> converting into something modern for my own continued use.
>
> For the last 2 suggestions I'm assuming DLP already has a cache of
> documents in a variety of formats, perhaps even with images to show
> how the document is properly rendered. I'm also assuming DLP is
> interested in collecting useful sample documents in formats people
> want to convert from alongside an image (say, a PNG) showing what that
> document looks like when properly rendered. I'm making these
> assumptions because it's easier to talk about the next suggestions
> with this assumption rather than going back and forth with DLP about
> this document cache. If I'm wrong in this assumption, consider adding
> such a cache to be another suggestion.
>
> - make this document cache read-only to all from the DLP website. A
> link to a hierarchy of directories would be fine for this, no need for
> a fancy presentation selector or anything like that. Please do not
> host this on a site that requires Javascript, subscription, nor should
> you host with a known spying agency (such as Microsoft, Google, etc.).
> If you need space to host this consider using archive.org;
> archive.org's resources are available to all gratis and require no
> Javascript to link to, download from, or get people to a directory.
>
> - Make it easy to know what DLP wants of contributors -- ideally
> there's a sample document, image showing proper rendering,
> documentation, and sample code in the preferred programming language,
> using the preferred API, and licensed with an acceptable free software
> license DLP wants.
>
> Thanks for DLP and all of your hard work.

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