On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:18 AM, David Leangen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Are there RSS feeds for project news events? > With confluence its always easy to build your own RSS feeds. Got to Dashboard, and follow the link "Feed Builder". > > If not, it's starting to get really hard to follow all the news (you guys > are so active!), so that could be cool. > Good idea. We can consider providing explicit RSS links as well, users can ofcourse go and build their own feeds as well. wdyt? > > > Cheers, > =David > > > > On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Thomas Joseph wrote: > > Good intiative Alin, > > Sure the site needs to have a good look, and be more user friendly. Some of > my ideas/comments: > > * Its good to stick on to wiki format. It allows us to keep the "open > participation" policy. > > * Considering logos for our projects. Logos allows our product to have > distinct identity. Apache conducts competetions for it. We can consider the > saem or our own ways. > > * With wiki, it good to link pages, but many a times, a page linking to > itself causes confutions. And also there are times, when we follow the links > to find ourselves inside a loop. We can consider navigations that can give > the use a clear idea of where he is. I do not know how we could do this in > confluence. > > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Alin Dreghiciu <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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. > > > + 1. Logos will enhance flagship products. We can consider thm at first > phase. > >> >> >> 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 >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general >> > > > > -- > -- > Thanks and Regards, > > Thomas Joseph > > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ethomasjoseph > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Promote Open Source - Promote Liberty of Ideas and Software. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general > > > > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general > > -- -- Thanks and Regards, Thomas Joseph LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ethomasjoseph ------------------------------------------------------------ Promote Open Source - Promote Liberty of Ideas and Software. ------------------------------------------------------------
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