Glynn Foster wrote:
> John Plocher wrote:
>   
>> Bonnie Corwin wrote:
>>     
>>> I just want us to think this through, and if we do it, I'd like the 
>>> editorial board to outline guidelines to be followed so that what we're 
>>> establishing is clear.
>>>       
>> +1
>>     
I'd like to add a +1 because I think that everybody who tries to help 
and contribute should be mentioned on the site. Even if he just spell 
checks the pages everyday, so I think with their input they should be 
mentioned somewhere where it shows ;)
>
> I also agree that guidelines would be great to have. But it seems like we're 
> a 
> bit away from that.
>
>   
>> The home page should be a dynamic place where we celebrate the
>> accomplishments and diversity of our community.
>>
>> I think we should promote, welcome and anounce events like this widely,
>> loudly and enthusiastically every chance we get.  If there was a way to
>> connect the callout boxes on OS.o with the various announcement RSS
>> streams and dynamically generate their contents, this would be easy.
>>
>> In the meantime IMO, time sensitive stuff like this should just happen;
>> the alternative is a stale site and a stale community...
>>     
>
> And this is the thing that most frustrates me. We have people trying to do a 
> better job at making the content on opensolaris.org a little bit more fresh 
> and 
> relevant. We should support them, because they are the ones willing to do the 
> work. For the desktop community I've actively advocated that anyone even 
> vaguely 
> interested in updating pages gets to be added as a leader.
>
> If that support ends up being a mistake, then it's pretty much zero cost to 
> correct them. Stop treating opensolaris.org as the crown jewels - it isn't, 
> and 
> I bet people barely look at it because of the stale content it has.
>
> Amusingly, one of the blog posts on the current home page is this -
>
>    http://napobo3.blogspot.com/2008/03/is-no-news-good-news.html
>
> Quite frankly, I'm losing the will to care.
>
>
>
> Glynn
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