On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Carol Lerche wrote: > >> I'd like to introduce you to the revolutionary idea of a "website". It >> is so much more functional than this "wiki" thing olpc is so enamoured >> of. On a "website" there is a "homepage" with important "links" to >> things like "help" and "contact us" and "latest news". Someone with a >> 21st century job known as "web design" makes this "website" attractive >> and easy to use. >> >> Of course dumping the information in a heap with no organization is >> probably better. You can always do a search on tags. Like the data >> store. >> >> Sorry for the snark, but really, these are solved problems. > > Your ideas are very interesting and I would like to subscribe to your > newsletter. > > My question: who owns the web site? > > In the end, like so many things in short-staffed volunteer organizations, > this comes down to a lack of clear organizational ownership. Which is, I > hope, the first set of problems that the oversight board will address in > concrete ways. > > 1. What needs are most urgent? > 2. Who owns the solutions? > > In the specific case of web stuff, the Fedora model, while imperfect, works > for us. There's a wiki that is as wild as it needs to be, and then there is > a website, no more than a few pages deep, that points people to the most > important content in the wiki. > > To do this properly, there needs to be a person or a set of people who > monitor the web site to make sure that it's still relevant. Every week. > It's a boring job in a sea of boring jobs -- but I agree with Carol, it's a > solved problem, and someone needs to step up and do it. > > --g > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
Back in the day, OLPC did the same thing: items were regularly culled from the wiki and put into the website. Maybe they can get someone to get things moving again, as www.laptop.org is pretty stale (especially the non-English pages; for example -- http://www.laptop.org/es/vision/people/). -walter _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
