Hi Ian,
Ian Lynch wrote:
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 21:10 +0200, Cristian Driga wrote:
<snip>
We do have the same software installed as Wikipedia and we can use it
for marketing. Why is it not used ? The Wiki therm has become pretty
synonim with freedom lately. But are we able to take advantage of this
freedom properly ?
Question is why not? Wiki software is free and easy to set up. Why is it
assumed that we have to have just one megalithic site? Maybe it would be
better to have a central site as we have with links to Wikis?
I do not understand and please correct me if I am wrong:
Do you have something against using in the Marketing Project the wiki we
already have available under OOo domain at:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page ?
Yes I know
we already have started doing some things on this recently but I'm
thinking of an active strategy to move everything on marketing to a
Wiki.
Why moving *everything* and not using it as an accessory tool for active
development of the project content that will continue to reside where it
is now? (Wiki would not even support the load of serving the content
that Marketing.OOo site is serving right now.)
Perhaps I missunderstood as I am pretty tired, but this is why I ask, to
clarify things.
Alos to have meaningful URLs such as www.OOO.marketing.org or
something that is easier to remember and easier to find. These seem like
small things but every small thing makes it harder for a newcomer to
join in.
Is this a real problem ? What if all projects would want to move to this
kinds of URLs ? Say www.OOO.documentation.org or www.ooo.romania.org. I
find this puzzling even for an experienced Internet user.
For nice URLs for the end users I would rather recommend creating
categories or projects under OOo domain (if we do not have them) named:
*use.openoffice.org*
or
*spread.openoffice.org*
...as a final display (and *only* display/indexing) for particular
products created by the Marketing Project (using also the wiki mentioned
above), and keeping the existing MP project pages for contributors
directions and stuff.
But not dispersing everything under various domains. This seems to me a
bad choice in the long run.
<snip>
I'm just suggesting we take a fresh look and instead of just grafting
bits in here and there we plan the thng with some coherence.
+1
So, should another thread dedicated to MP be opened and aimed at
planning things for the Marketing Project ?
I understand by this planning something like: evaluating the current
status, where we go and what is needed for that, short, medium and long
term goals as in the Strategic Marketing Plan, work division (human
resources allocation), documents/materials created, identifying and
organizing the processes, etc and how the wiki [read *the total
creativity freedom tool* :)] should be better used in this.
The wiki at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page can help
us greatly and I think it is a pitty that we do not use it for making
things go smoother in this project. I can help set an MP are up in it if
needed.
<snip>
So, to repeat myself, what we actually need is:
- coming up with a real workflow in the MP
- implement in the wiki style the current common workflows
- initiating the wiki pages for the Marketing Project
- organizing them in categories so that one does not get lost when there
will be too many
- encouraging usage and completion through wiki of the current and
future tasks.
- the finalized documents should be uploaded on the main OOo site on a
regular basis.
<snip>
Cristian ~hoping for the best~ Driga
:-)
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