Hi all, We're soon going start setting up our new community site. However, we need your help in gathering the requirements for the site, e.g. what services to provide. There are a few general requirements on our (=company's) part.
1) Consistent look and feel 2) Integratibility with external sites/services (e.g. other OpenVPN-related sites) 3) Convenient to use (e.g. same passwords for each service) 4) Provides easy to use communication channels (e.g. forums) 5) Provides ways to contribute for non-coders (e.g. forums, wiki, bug tracker) 6) Provides the means to work on OpenVPN-related projects (subproject hosting) 7) Supports other languages besides English (see below) 8) Extendability (to avoid dead-ends in the future) 9) Supports our new development model (I'm currently discussing this with James) 10) Supports team building (e.g. separate communication channels for testers, packagers, translators etc.) These requirements are still work in progress, as is the scope of the site. In any case we'd like to avoid unnecessary overlap with existing community projects (e.g. OpenVPN e.V.) while still providing a comprehensive set of services for the community. One possibility is that we provide English-language services only and work with existing projects to provide support for other languages. I'd also like to be able to integrate our services with external community sites, e.g. by using same authentication services. I doubt I've managed to get all requirements right, so I'd like to hear what you think... Are we on a right track? Have I missed something essential here? -- Samuli Seppänen Community Manager OpenVPN Technologies, Inc
