On 02/11/2010 15:11, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Heya :) > > Nice to see that SMW now has a great new homepage. > One thing that I noticed immediately however when looking at it was > the fact that there wasn't any clear way for people that want to > contribute to SMW. > Halo has this page for this purpose: > http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Development/Main_Page > and KDE has this page: http://kde.org/community/getinvolved/ > They both give new contributors a hand with their first steps. If you > want new contributors you will need to have something like this. > > Does anything resembling this exist and is just not linked?
That is a very good point indeed! The closest thing we currently have there is probably http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_guide_to_SMW which is focussed on technical aspects only. We should really have a "Get involved" link on the main page instead ("Programmer's guide" would be in the wrong section anyway, since it is not about the project but more like a part of advanced documentation). The only other hint is at http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Contact where people who wish to get involved are pointed to the devel mailing list (which is indeed a good place to ask for all kinds of involvements, but the current text does clearly not inspire potential contributors to send an email there). > If it does > not exist is there interest in creating one? I can help with fleshing > such a page out but I will need support from someone more familiar > with what you need from new contributors and what information is > available for them. Is anyone up for that? It would be great if you could draft such a page. It could link to the existing programmer's guide for some technical information, but programming is clearly not the only way of getting involved! For example, we have some awesome translators working on the site already (the translated new homepage was almost complete in several languages even before I announced it). It would be great to have one place where various ideas for getting involved are offered (even "help developing some code" is not really specific enough to get anybody started). But I guess this is all obvious to you anyway, and you already have some idea on how such a page should look :-) Regards, Markus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
