I'd like to respond to this one before responding to Maarten's
suggestions...
Alex Fisher wrote:
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 10:52, :murb: [maarten brouwers] wrote:
Hi,
Kai Backman wrote:
- Change the upper tab on the frontpage from "Contributing" to
"Developers" and make it link to development.oo.org
I believe we had this discussion going on earlier. The thing with
"Developers" as menu-item is that it won't really attract people who
want e.g. to write documentation or translate OOo in other languages.
The fact that developers won't instantly recognize contributing as the
link they could be interested in...
A suggestion which may or may not be feasible, but which would perhaps help,
is to add an extra tab labelled "Developers" and link it to the same page as
the "Contributing" page.....
If I'm not mistaken, these "tabs" are part of the initial site setup,
and can only be setup by the Courcecast folks. This may have changed --
I admit I haven't been keeping up with these kinds of things all that well.
I think this would be redundancy we could probably do without however.
I personally feel "Contributing" is a good/friendly term catch all term
for all sorts of contributions, which is what the page itself indicates.
However, maybe we could also think about the term "Participating" instead?
On Maarten's suggestions...yes, more discussion here on this list is
appropriate. And, some of the "virtual" sub-domains like "development"
are not controlled by members of the general dev-website list.
Re updating the Contributing page, style-wise, itself. Well...my feeling
is that it has a nice friendly look-and-feel, and when it was redesigned
about two years ago, this was felt to be a good thing. It was purposely
kept light in feel as opposed to some of other pages. I don't think the
goal/focus of this page has changed really.
This discussion started out with the problem of having more C++
developer participation. Again, *finding* the development page is not a
problem. It's what's on THAT page that needs improvement, and
maintainers of the main website areas do not have access to that.
What I'm suggesting at this point is that these comments be forwarded to
whoever is maintaining that area -- this is not clear to me at the
moment but I'm sure we can find out.
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