15 Mar
2010
15 Mar
'10
6:53 p.m.
On Mar 15, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
Yes I agree. It's a question of priorities for the home page. As you know the home
page is not large and there's always a fight to what gets put there. IMO an Events
page where everyone could add events related to XWiki is very good to have and I'm +1
about it.
Now if I have to choose on the home between "Events" and "new
macros/snippets/extensions", I think I'd prefer the later. Right now
"Events" is there but promoting the contributors is not there at all. That's
also part of the "corporate" thing I can feel. Our current home page is slightly
too "corporate" too BTW which is one thing I'd like to fix about it. I'd
like a community home page where people want to contribute.
Thanks
-Vincent
On 03/15/2010 06:25 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
It's not about whether it would be nice to have or not. It's about the effort it
takes to do it. Honestly we'll never be able to sustain it and it has to come from the
community.
We need something that is low maintenance and a newsletter is VERY high maintenance.
I'd + 1 for an announcement mailing list. It's a good idea and we lack it.
Hi Silvia,
Good start!
However I feel it's a bit too "corporate".
For ex:
* We don't have newsletter on xwiki.org. Would be complex to do, maintain, etc
I think that in the format the Silvia proposed in her other email, a
newsletter would be good. Personally I don't like that monitoring an
open source project usually involves two far-apart levels of granularity:
- monitoring the mailing list(s)
- coming from time to time to check if something happened
Given that we don't have an announcements(a)xwiki.org list, a monthly
newsletter is a great way of keeping users in touch, without making them
monitor the mailing list.
One thing we do better than most other projects is that we have a blog,
but IMO it is still not enough. * Events is
too corporate too since it's not about xwiki.org but about the company doing it.
No, I disagree. Of course we shouldn't promote events where XWiki SAS as
a company is clearly involved, but events that interest all our users.
Do you want to say that our presence at the Paris JUG or Nantes JUG were
not interesting for XWiki users, or actually any software user? * I'm not sure about twitter either. Who
would be allowed to tweet? I'd prefer a news.xwiki.org done using XWatch (if we think
we can maintain it).
I don't like our current @XWiki Twitter account, so I'd be -1 for
promoting it. Another (English) account which would just mirror blog
posts would be good, though.
Also, I'd prefer that we focus on the
community. This is a community web site, done by the community, for the community so we
should highlight new code snippets, new macros, new extensions, updated documentation
pages, etc. I made a proposal for this for the redesign of the xwiki.org home page some
time back. Have you seen it?
+1, but we're seeing the proposed features from different angles. I
think they match this perspective.
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
> On Mar 15, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Silvia Rusu wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've made a mockup for the XWiki.org homepage. It would be great if you
>> offered some feedback (what you like, what you don't like, what you'd
like
>> to see on the page and is not yet included, etc.). You can find the page on
>> the incubator:
>> http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Mockups/Homepage
>>
>> I made the mockup by adding new elements over the already existing
>> suggestions at:
>> http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/XWikiOrgRedesign/
>>
>> Thanks