Where's the draft that we should review?

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On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Claus Schwarm <[email protected]>wrote:

> Short status report:  I think, I imported most of the available
> information from old drafts and www.gnome.org (wgo) by now. Now we'd
> need to fill the gaps and fix wrong or misleading pieces. We may also
> need to decide about a few issues.
>
> Overall, I'm still not happy about the content structure. The 'About'
> pages most likely to be read by people new to GNOME but they are boring
> and lame. For example, 'Why GNOME' is better as a beginning for newbies,
> in my opinion. Note that it repeats much of the information in 'About
> GNOME'. I still believe, we should make 'About GNOME' the basic sales
> pitch and drop the whole 'Products' section. However, that's just a side
> note.
>
> What needs to be done:
>
>
> 1.) Missing First Drafts:
>
>  * "Front page" (not in the wiki yet)
>  * "Products"
>  * "Products > Submit Your Product"
>  * "Contact > Foundation"
>
> I'm not really sure why we would need the last one. It's on the
> foundation site, anyway. However. Who's going to write one of them?
>
> I also skip importing the 'friends of gnome' pages.
>
> 2.) Missing paragraphs
>
> These are 'flagged' with //TODO. Who's willing to pick one page and fix
> them?
>
> 3.) URL structure
>
> Right now, urls are sorted by the content. Thus, we
> have /community/friends/, for example, instead of /friends/. We still
> have time to change that, I believe. We will need redirects, anyway, but
> we may want to keep them as simple as possible.
>
> Someone needs to talk to webhackers and figure out what's the best
> option here.
>
>
> 3.) Content review
>
> Please read the pages. If you think, something important is missing,
> add //TODO and describe what you think should be changed. Or better yet:
> Simply write it.
>
> That's it, I think.
>
> Note that according to the GNOME web schedule, the sections 'About' and
> 'Contact' are expected to be finished July 15th. That's just two weeks
> and we still need to proof-read.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Claus
>
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