On 2/2/06, Tantek Çelik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/1/06 6:53 PM, "Ryan King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not opposed to having tutorials and more beginner-friendly > > material on http://microformats.org, but AFAICT, those sorts of > > things don't write themselves. > > Correct. > > In fact, if folks either want to write tutorials, or want tutorials on > anything in particular, please add them to the to-do page: > > http://microformats.org/wiki/to-do
Ryan makes an important point. I have added a list of short term tasks/goals here. I'm currently working from the get-something-done-in-five-minutes perspective, and acting on some of the introductory content ideas which have been discussed. > > > http://microformats.org/about/people/ is out-of-date and most > > certainly always will be. It might be better just to kill it. > > I have to disagree on this point. I think it is quite useful from the point > of view of here are the folks that have contributed significant time and > effort, even *before* there was a microformats.org. Perhaps we need to just > edit the prose/headlines to reflect that. Yes, I think this definitely belongs in the site somewhere - just that it's context, like the colophon needs to reflect it's nature as more of a background piece, than primary site content. > >> === Discuss (http://microformats.org/discuss/) === > >> > >> A spartan section, but very useful and well presented. Could > >> potentially be more friendly and inviting? I know the notion of > >> "community" is overused, but might still be a good idea to reflect it > >> here somehow. > > > > "community" *is* overused and *ambiguous*. I'm willing to improve > > this section, but I'm not hearing any actionably suggestions. > > +1 on what Ryan said. It works well, so maybe isn't an immediate priority. What I wrote was ambiguous enough. I think what I was thinking was to try and communicate more of a connection to the aspects of the open source process - that it is a working group as much as a discussion group. > > People don't read. > > It's worse than that. Even when told to do so, people don't read. > > I had one person ask me *three* times why their all lowercase username > attempts were not working, even when I told them to go read the FAQ which > answers this common problem right at the beginning. > > I haven't come up with a good way of dealing with this and am open to > suggestions. Consider it a filter for effective participation. > > >> A "Get Started Now" link would be a great compliment or replacement > >> for the existing "Find Out More" link, acting as a subtle call to > >> action, and communicating to readers that they can potentially > >> implement one or several microformats with their existing content in a > >> matter of minutes. > > > > I'd love to link to something like that from the homepage, but it > > doesn't exist. Write it, and it shall be linked. Am working on it :) Regards, Mark _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
