Guys, Bottom line: we need to do something about our main OPS4J site which is now the wiki to make it more attractive!
This mail is just about starting a discussion about this subject, so please fill in your ideas about we should do about making the wiki (if will still be a wiki ;) more attractive and useful for the user. Here are some ideas: * first of all we need much better documentation for our projects. I know from experience that is not fun and easy to create the documentation but what is the value of the project if the user does not know how to use it? I stated doing that on Pax Runner and Pax Exam and will continue to work on them and then move to Pax Exam / Extender. Related to this I found comments on the web talking about pax projects that they look great but the lack of documentation is a show stopper. Also it is important to present documentation for the "usual" user and documentation for * the site should be more eye-catching. we need somebody with some experience on creating an attractive design to our site. Beside that I do not know who can do such an job it is also the fact that we are using Confluence so implementing such an design is even harder. Best will maybe be that we get from somewhere an already built Confluence Theme that we may only change a bit. If anyone interested on taking a tab at it let me know that I can guide you on using the Adaptavist Theme builder. And check out this: https://www.adaptavist.com/display/Builder/About So, it can be done. * we need to redefine what we have on pages. I think we should apply an "less is more" approach and do not load pages with info, but give enough info to guide people. As for example on the main I would put only a short description of what is OPS4J, latest news (detailed) and flagship projects links and important community links. Like for example on main apache page or eclipse. * we should somehow differentiate our flagship projects from other projects so people will not be overwhelmed by number of projects which some may be too low level for them. E.g. Pax Runner / Pax Exam should not be presented at the same level as Pax URL / Reflector / Base or Swissbox. So, do not hesitate express yourself :) -- Alin Dreghiciu http://www.ops4j.org - New Energy for OSS Communities - Open Participation Software. http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java - Domain Driven Development. Looking for a job. Sent from Cluj-Napoca, CJ, Romania _______________________________________________ general mailing list general@lists.ops4j.org http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general
