Re: Website improvement ideas

2011-12-06 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Shane, On Wednesday, December 7, 2011, Shane Curcuru wrote: > Hey, what do people think about moving the bulk of the content (lightly edited) from this wiki page to be > the index/overview of the /governance topic?... > http://wiki.apache.org/general/FoundationGovernance >... Why not, but I'd

Re: Website improvement ideas

2011-12-06 Thread Shane Curcuru
Hey, what do people think about moving the bulk of the content (lightly edited) from this wiki page to be the index/overview of the /governance topic? (then having the wiki page just point to the a.o stuff, since it's so much simpler editing the website now with the CMS, thanks joes!) http:

Re: Website improvement ideas

2011-12-06 Thread Shane Curcuru
On 2011-12-06 4:52 PM, Brett Porter wrote: Sounds like good ideas. I understand your concerns earlier in the thread, however I still think /governance belongs on www.a.o. I don't want to see community.a.o generating a lot of new content outside of its scope of enabling new contributors and "sign

Re: Website improvement ideas

2011-12-06 Thread Brett Porter
Sounds like good ideas. I understand your concerns earlier in the thread, however I still think /governance belongs on www.a.o. I don't want to see community.a.o generating a lot of new content outside of its scope of enabling new contributors and "signposting" - there's enough problems with do

Re: Website improvement ideas

2011-12-06 Thread Shane Curcuru
[PROPOSAL] I plan to create community.a.o/governance with: /index: brief overview for new readers, and link to the subpages. I was thinking of having two lists linked to the subpages: one by organizational hierarchy (the board is on top), one by importance (the PMCs are on top). /board /mem

Re: Website improvement ideas

2011-11-25 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Nov 25, 2011 6:37 PM, "Rich Bowen" wrote: > > Please count me in for the editorial stuff. Gathering disparate material into a consistent voice is my super power. ;) > Yay for Rich's super power. Please feel free to point out to yo

Re: Website improvement ideas

2011-11-25 Thread Rich Bowen
Please count me in for the editorial stuff. Gathering disparate material into a consistent voice is my super power. ;) -- Rich Bowen rbo...@geek.net On Nov 25, 2011, at 8:43, Ross Gardler wrote: > > I think the goal of the ComDev site should be to have a reasonably > consistent tone that sig

Re: Website improvement ideas

2011-11-25 Thread Shane Curcuru
ACK, ACK, you're both right. The Apache Governance stuff fits in with my idea of ComDev providing background "why" information in a much simpler to read format. Then the actual policies and the "How" and "Who" details are in the usual places under /dev. The issue for me is that /dev, even w

Re: Website improvement ideas

2011-11-25 Thread Ross Gardler
On 25 November 2011 09:42, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi Shane, > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Shane Curcuru wrote: >> With my shiny new PMC hat (thanks!) I've started thinking about some useful >> organization and presentation for the community.a.o pages.  Shout if you >> have suggested

Re: Website improvement ideas

2011-11-25 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Shane, On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Shane Curcuru wrote: > With my shiny new PMC hat (thanks!) I've started thinking about some useful > organization and presentation for the community.a.o pages.  Shout if you > have suggested changes, or if I should not do any of these things someday...

Re: Website improvement ideas

2011-11-24 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Shane Curcuru wrote: - I'd like to add a Who We Are page to the community.a.o site. While I one hand I appreciate the idea that we promote our communities, don't have @author tags, and the like, on the other hand for newcomers I often find that they sometimes are more will

Re: Website improvement ideas

2011-11-24 Thread Igor Galić
- Original Message - > With my shiny new PMC hat (thanks!) I've started thinking about some > useful organization and presentation for the community.a.o pages. > Shout > if you have suggested changes, or if I should not do any of these > things > someday: > > - Update the top of the page

Website improvement ideas

2011-11-24 Thread Shane Curcuru
With my shiny new PMC hat (thanks!) I've started thinking about some useful organization and presentation for the community.a.o pages. Shout if you have suggested changes, or if I should not do any of these things someday: - Update the top of the page to make the intro paras more engaging, an