On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 18:16, Markus Krötzsch <[email protected]> wrote: > 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).
Ok thx for the pointers. >> 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 :-) Awesome news about the translations! I'll sit down with Jeroen in the next days to put a first draft together. If anyone else wants to help let me know. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher ontoprise GmbH – know how to use Know-how - - - Halo Extension - Want to get involved? http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/development - - - An der RaumFabrik 29; 76227 Karlsruhe; Germany email: [email protected], www: http://www.ontoprise.com Registered Office: Karlsruhe, Germany, HRB 109540 Managing Directors: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Angele, Hans-Peter Schnurr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
