Hi,
Oron Peled wrote:
Some rant + possible way out...
On Friday, 7 בNovember 2008, Rami Rosen wrote:
2) Slides for today IPv6 lecture are available in tuxology web site
are here:
http://tuxology.net/lectures/ipv6-in-the-linux-kernel/
Thanks, but since tuxology choose to store the slides
in scribd, i encountered some... hurdles:
1. All content handling is based on flash. Many of my
hosts don't have flash installed. Even simple wget
is banned that way.
You're a big overreacting. Yes, there's a flash applet that shows the
slides inline in the page, but underneath each such applet there's a
link to download the content.
2. After searching the page, I found a "direct" link
(albeit with a horribly encoded url), only to be
redirected to a login screen.
Should our community content be held hostage behind some
company login requirements?
3. The last too items also mean we cannot practically
link directly to these presentations. As a result their
chance to be indexed and found by search engines
are nil (yes, I know scribd front pages with the
document titles are indexed -- so what? what about the full text?)
This unnecessarily lowers the long term value of this content.
I don't really see the real issue here but since you seem to be bothered
by this I'm going to add a direct link to the original slides. This will
take time tough...
Can't we afford hosting our own community presentations?
No, hosting space is not the issue. Making efficient use of my time is
- Scribd is convenient being that it automatically creates a version in
various formats (PDF/ODP/DOC etc.) and a nice preview image (although
flash based).
I was aiming to reach a larger audience then the "usual suspects" with
the new site and club (and judging from the participants of the last
meeting it is working) - one that wont have OO installed despite most
slides being written with the tool. I didn't want to spend time
converting to different formats so I choose Scribd.
As I said I will add a direct link to original slides when I have time.
Gilad
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