Early days yet but I have something online which might give some idea of what I propose might be helpful. If the use of the logo is an issue, let me know. It will take a fair amount of work to get it up to snuff so please be patient.
http://www.habarians.com/mybb/index.php I'm trying to do it up as a chronology, or road map, of my own experience as a user. On Tuesday, January 1, 2013 3:00:44 PM UTC-5, Les Henderson wrote: > > I'll do what I can when time permits. I hope I can set something up that > will take on its own momentum since, like you, I have many irons in as many > fires. I tried to think up a good name for a forum site domain but > apparently your group, the squatters and the Ugandans took all the good > ones. Ha. > > I settled on habarians.com since the term was used here in the groups > over the years and not much elsewhere. I'll let you know when it is set up > with categories I think will be helpful to the average user. > > As for immediate suggestions I highly recommend that you add a couple > items to the top left navigation block of the wiki to include links to > Manual, Plugins, Theming, Installation. That alone would have saved me > quite some time running around. > > > On Monday, December 31, 2012 5:27:16 PM UTC-5, ringmaster wrote: >> >> Our community is oddly troll-resistant. I think they'd rather ignore it >> than fight. And it is holiday season, after all. Apparently, I'm the >> only one stuck at home, working. >> >> Habari currently falls into a weird niche, where its users need not know >> why all the underlying code works, but they're likely to need to roll up >> their sleeves a bit and get their hands dirty. As you've noticed, >> Habari can be rough for someone who knows nothing about running blogs or >> code or HTML, because it fits in that niche. It's most likely that it >> remains there because it's difficult for its developers to step back far >> enough to realize what they need to explain to the common person >> installing it. >> >> That said, it would be lovely to have someone on the front side working >> to discover and implement (or pass on to developers for implementation) >> what features/services would please common end-users. >> >> A good portion of the issues you've described have to do with our >> woefully incomplete addons directory, which is meant to house plugins >> and themes. This will supplant the wiki and other listings as the >> primary source of addons. >> >> I'm happy to work with someone who is interested in enhancing Habari's >> user-facing image, though my time is primarily spent in the coding >> trenches, building Habari and using it for paying client work. If you >> had some immediate action items that you think we could execute on to >> hopefully increase novice user adoption, I'll help as I can, and I'm >> sure other people would, too. >> >> Owen >> >> -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-users
