Stephen,Beautifully said, I agree wholeheartedly. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Stephen Bohlen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tobin: > > FWIW, I applaud your efforts. OSS is built on the backs of volunteers -- > people who give of themselves to contribute what they can where they can. > One of the very real challenges of OSS is that its often difficult to say to > any volunteer "I would prefer you volunteer your free time doing X instead > of Y". > > I really think that ALL of these efforts -- coding, designing, testing, > documenting, teaching, and -- yes -- organizing content in NHForge too are > all needed around NHibernate in order to help keep its larger ecosystem > alive and healthy. No one task is more important, more valuable, or more > needed than the others IMHO; instead they all contribute to the life of the > project. > > I say this to any volunteer in just about any context: as long as you > aren't doing active HARM to anything, feel free to pick up a hammer, a saw, > a paint brush, an ink pen or whatever tools you like and offer up some value > to the project. The essence of satisfaction as a volunteer is in pouring > your passion for action into a concrete result that others can > appreciate for what it is. And whether thats a new feature, a closed bug, a > new article or blog post, or even an improved, more professional-looking > NHForge that helps to increase the sense of professionalism visitors > perceive around the participants in the project, I say: have at it -- all > comers are equally welcome because all contributions are equally valued~! > > -Steve B. > > > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Tobes <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> > My main point is that I think this is a far bigger barrier to adoption >> than lack of personability of the NH dev team. >> > -Michael >> >> Putting photos + bios on the home page will help win trust with new >> visitors. It gives the message that NHibernate is a team of seasoned >> developers, not some rabble of spurious open source hackers (decision >> makers often fear the worst!). By winning trust, it will also increase >> adoption. That's my thinking at least. >> >> The failing links, duplicate forums and stale content might be solved >> by creating gravity around the latest resources. Creating gravity >> means doing things that pull visitors back time and time again (google >> forum, nhforge.org etc). >> >> One thing we could do to give nhforge.org gravity would be to make the >> home page as official as possible. This would leave no room for >> confusion, so people know it's the place to come to. My hope is that >> putting developer faces on nhforge.org home page will help to make it >> more official, and therefore reduce the confusion, and ensure visitors >> keep coming back. >> >> Tobin > > >
