Well, I know that there few open source projects maintained/created by
Israel developers.
May be python.org.il can contain references + small description to
those projects?
Thus it will promote the use of those projects in industry.
I think that the potential of this site is really its ability to help
grow the community and that Roman's suggestions are pointing to this.
This site can be much more than a place to post documentation.
It could include
Directories of People
Directories of Organizations/Companies
Job Postings
Community Calendar
Listing of Projects
Photo Gallery
Archive of presentations and hand outs
Tutorials
Glossary
RSS feeds of each section
A CMS is really needed to do these things well.
It all seems very nice, but unfortunately our current problem is
generating contents, not how to manage it.
Having content-types (like 'person', 'organization', 'project', etc.)
also gives people ideas of things to add to the site. When people see
other listings they naturally want to add themselves, their
organization, etc.
* An easy way to edit the content
Because Plone includes the web-based visual editor Kupu, the barriers
to contribute are lower, there is no new wiki-syntax to learn. People
can add content with tools that look familiar to them. example:
http://plone.org/documentation/whatsnew/2.1/images/kupu.png
* Easy to join and contribute - login should be optional
* Automatic spam protection, because we don't have time to clean our
site
I think that these two go together and that people should have to login
to publish on the site. Requiring login to publish/comment combines
with Plone's workflow process to prevent spam very well.
* We may create some content about Python (e.g tutorials)
With Plone those can be illustrated html tutorials that can be made
without them people having to code any html (visual editor, above...)
* Complete Hebrew support
* Good support for left to right section within right to left page
(e.g include code in a hebrew page)
Plone has very strong hebrew translations and RTL support, thanks to
the hard work of Ofer and others.
I have developed Plone archetypes for many of the content-types above
which I will be glad to share, and I will volunteer to help customize
them as help with any other Plone work as needed.
I think that if we have a shared understanding of how this will help
support and grow the community, then we will be able to convince an
organization in Israel to help sponsor us for Plone hosting.
kind regards
--
David
