> We could even have a "featured package" section... I like that idea! If there's a blog or something (the contents of which are automatically pulled into the wiki/site), then there could be a guest writer each month to write a short post about their favorite (or their own ;-) package on hackage.
This would certainly make the site seem more alive (as does that automatic hackage feed, but this would be written by a human). - Tom Lokhorst On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:04 AM, minh thu<not...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/7/10 Thomas Davie <tom.da...@gmail.com>: >> >> On 9 Jul 2009, at 18:32, Thomas ten Cate wrote: >> >>> Are there any kind of hard statistics and analytics that we can base >>> this discussion upon? There is always room for improvement, but >>> stumbling around in the dark making blind guesses may not be the best >>> way to go. Although I personally feel that Lenny's proposed page is an >>> improvement, statistics could tell us what actual people actually use >>> the site for. >> >> I'm not sure that that's useful. We can (assuming there are statistics) >> easily find out what the front page *is* used for. But that doesn't >> necessarily mean that that's what it *should* be used for. In my mind, the >> front page is for nothing more than enticing people to use Haskell for long >> enough to look at a second page where all the useful stuff is if you are a >> haskell programmer. It should include no more than a description of what >> haskell is, why it's cool, a link to the documentation, a link to a Haskell >> Platform Dowload and a link to the earlier mentioned "second page". > > Hi, > > As said by others, I find that, beside the content you mention, the > appearance of a wiki is "inviting", and the Events, Headlines and > Recent package updates makes the haskell community looks active and > welcoming (which it is). > > In fact, although it would be even more overwhelming, the titles of > the last posts on planet.haskell.org and the Haskell Weekly News could > maybe appear... > > We could even have a "featured package" section where someone give a > nice introduction to a new or not well known package. (If it is too > much but considered a good idea, a possibility would be to have just a > little, although slightly outstanding link beside the package name in > the Recent package updates section.) > > Cheers, > Thu > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe