tomw said:
As far as I can see GFWD is owned by Sean, perhaps partnership with Aaron.
Aaron and I are equal partners in the site and share the work load and other duties around the site. We both have the exact same access to everything on the site. We also talk on a regular basis and have weekly meetings on things for the site. We are a real team and partnership.
From day one GFWD's has been a privately owned site, but with "community" support. We've made sure to have full disclosure on things like this so we don't run into any issues.
As seen on GFWD's, we have plenty of support from users who haven't set foot on any of the previous design sites (OSWD, OWD, OD) in over year, so we must be doing something right.
Keep in mind that I was an admin at different times on each of those sites and later left to the way side when things went bad or got sold off, so I personally know all the good, bad and ugly that can happen with a site like this, which is why we've taken so much time to do various things on GFWD's.
GFWD's isn't going to be for everyone, and that's fine. I've learned being apart of many design sites over the past 8-9 years that you can not please everyone and like Gnome pointed out, communities (at least design ones) have a hard time making decisions, which is part of why GFWD's was started.
Anyway, we have carved out a little piece in the huge Open Source Design arena and so far things are going smooth and everyone involved with the site - design authors or users - are very happy with how we are running things.
tomw said:
Last year I submitted a proposal of creating a network for the web designers.
I would like to restart this project if at least one person here helps out.
I think why you didn't get any traction 11-12 months ago is because you wanted to base everything on your ztml.
I know you spent years developing ztml, but there are so many other systems already in place with huge support bases, and as you are seeing from the lack of use of your ztml, it would be a huge uphill battle IMHO.
I do wish you the best with it and maybe someone will want to help you out, just keep in mind these types of projects require a ton of time and energy and not everyone is up to the task.