Hi,
On 2007-03-04, at 15:26 , Cor Nouws wrote:
Hi Louis,
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
OOo is in the news a lot around the world --that's good. We track
our media presence via the announce newsletter [0] and the
blogspot newsletter [1]. Plus, many of the NLC projects maintain
their own archives.
It would be nice to have a single destination that would be easy
to maintain and that we could all reference. We can use the
blogspot, the wiki (I created, but have not populated, http://
wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/News_Archives). What would be
best is if the news archives could also be broken into channels,
eg, Migration, How-Tos, Interviews, articles, etc. I tend to
think that for this categorization, the wiki would be best.
The point is to be able to answer the obvious questions about OOo
and to be able to point to actual news sources. We have tried
versions of this before we had the wiki at our disposal--didn't
work, too much of a hassle and was confusing, too. But even
having links to locally maintained sites would be great. Just
something that quickly gives visitors what they need to form
(positive) judgements.
I think this is important: that we (can) give right information,
not all information.
Also because - as you mention - maintaining wiki's (or a nice
database for a search on catagories ...) is not easy.
Actually, my experience has been that maintaining a wiki is quite easy.
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Only my idea is, that small improvements shall work out better
than huge new projects. Unless we come to the conclusion that our
current approach is totally wrong, of course.
You sound down, Cor :-) Winter is almost over :-)
Oh, I didn't mean any huge project at all. I meant a wiki like what
we have, what I created--or anyone can--populated with links to
existing archives. I didn't say we have to spam the world with our
name, or have all the boring stuff there. I meant that rather than
having many destinations and no single centre, we can have a centre
or hub with other news archives. There would not even be a problem of
synching central with satellite news. No: we just have links to those
other archives on the central.
Thus, a user goes to, say, www.openoffice.org and sees the newslinks
I have there. She clicks on, say, "All the News", and is taken to
wiki.services./news, which has links to the FR, DE, BR-PT, whatever
news archives, each with its pretty icon to signify its identity.
That's all; very simple, not a project. And I think it should be
done, as it will allow us to do what I also suggested in my first post.
Best wishes,
Cor
best,
louis
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