Some of you might have read my thread earlier in time about my new Orbiter website which I am building. I'd like to touch on a few notes and ask some questions...
Developer Homepages: These are fairly debugged and about to enter an Alpha phase, if you would like to participate in Alpha, please comment below or message me and this weekend and I will get in touch with you!
This solution is tested and working so that if you post something to your Developer Homepage it is automatically displayed on the front-end of the website for visitors to see. The homepage can be configured to link to your own website (so that you can incorporate it) or you can make this a website totally about your project and not need your own page.
Developers are able to have multiple homepages, and navigate between them easily.
Additionally, developers can be members of several homepages which they do not 'own' - this way if your project uses 'Sam' and he also helps on 4 other projects, but does not lead his own, he can participate in the blog and website content of all of the project homepages while remaining independent of owning his own homepage.
Email Newsletters: We have the ability to setup a private email newsletter solution, it uses Amazon SES to send the emails and would be Orbiter Branded - just for us. This would allow individuals to subscribe to an email new letter application and Developers to send emails with their own 'brand' applied to their project and if they have their own website (domain name) it can be branded to that as well. While this has a limited number of emails which can be sent out (in the range of 10,000 per day) and limits on how fast those emails are sent, it would give us a private solution which would help in communicating to everyone.
Email Forwarding Accounts: I have a few thousand email forwarding accounts we can use which would give an Orbiter branded email address for developers which the community could use to send emails to you, then you get them at your own personal email account which you can reply from.
Question Time! ..
Developer Homepages: These are fairly debugged and about to enter an Alpha phase, if you would like to participate in Alpha, please comment below or message me and this weekend and I will get in touch with you!
This solution is tested and working so that if you post something to your Developer Homepage it is automatically displayed on the front-end of the website for visitors to see. The homepage can be configured to link to your own website (so that you can incorporate it) or you can make this a website totally about your project and not need your own page.
Developers are able to have multiple homepages, and navigate between them easily.
Additionally, developers can be members of several homepages which they do not 'own' - this way if your project uses 'Sam' and he also helps on 4 other projects, but does not lead his own, he can participate in the blog and website content of all of the project homepages while remaining independent of owning his own homepage.
Email Newsletters: We have the ability to setup a private email newsletter solution, it uses Amazon SES to send the emails and would be Orbiter Branded - just for us. This would allow individuals to subscribe to an email new letter application and Developers to send emails with their own 'brand' applied to their project and if they have their own website (domain name) it can be branded to that as well. While this has a limited number of emails which can be sent out (in the range of 10,000 per day) and limits on how fast those emails are sent, it would give us a private solution which would help in communicating to everyone.
Email Forwarding Accounts: I have a few thousand email forwarding accounts we can use which would give an Orbiter branded email address for developers which the community could use to send emails to you, then you get them at your own personal email account which you can reply from.
Question Time! ..
- Does anyone want to participate in Alpha of the homepages? I'd love to have a few people get on board and help make suggestions on things I can do to improve the solution.
- Does anyone feel the newsletter solution is a good idea? I'm very interested in getting that going if there is a desire.
- What do people think of Orbiter branded email forwarding accounts?
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