Folks--
I realize I am coming VERY late to this whole discussion but I see after
reviewing the archives that it all started with Ingrid's well deserved
complaint about not finding the chart project very easily.
My feeling about the current 'Project' tab is that, indeed it is not
very useful to new visitors. It goes into way too much detail about the
various categorizations of projects to begin with before you even get to
a list, which, again, is not the best when it comes to describing really
what each of the projects is about or encompasses.
Maybe we could come up with a new design for this page? I realize that
some of what we've got going on makes use of the handy dandy servlet
capability of SourceCast, so I don't know how much of what I'm
suggesting can be readily used.
Just to give you some ideas. Take a look at the NetBeans Contributing
page (this is just the first one I thought about and not necessarily the
best)
http://www.netbeans.org/community/contribute/
It goes into a nice friendly explanation of what it means to contribute
in various ways. We might want to bypass much of this since some of it
is addressed in other ways on the OpenOffice site. Then you can use the
drop-down to see an exhaustive list of the specific projects. If it were
up to me to do something like this, I would also include a brief
explanation (I mean like less than 20 characters) of what the project
actually did, hopefully using some wording that most people/potential
developers could understand.
As I am more or less caught up on life at this point, I would be happy
to come back from my sabbatical and work with someone on this in the
coming weeks. :)
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Kay Schenk
"Money talks. Chocolate sings."
-- Unknown
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