Bonnie Corwin wrote: > Hi, > > FYI, I don't believe we've used call-out boxes to announce project work > or project participation so far. Email to opensolaris-announce has been > used which scrolls on the front page. Is there a reason email to > opensolaris-announce is not a good idea here? > > I'm not necessarily against doing this, but before doing it, I would > like us to discuss where we're heading if we do this and figure out > general parameters and guidelines. > > Are we going to let any projects announce anything this way? Are we > going to announce every time any company joins a project (we did not do > this for Intel and I believe we have some storage companies involved in > storage projects)? What is the time-frame that a box would remain on > the front page for this kind of announcement? Etc. > > 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.
I mentioned this a while ago, when we were first discussing the Editorial Board, but I'd like to see projects come to the website-discuss list with important milestones and have them featured in the main content area, the way the poll information is displayed today. I think updating it every 1-2 months would be good. I think the issue with 'stale' content is that every three months someone says 'we have stale content', then someone volunteers to update it for a while and then they stop - and we repeat the cycle. Marketing updated the News items for the first year, but then they wanted the community take it over. Since then I've given a number of people access to the News area, but they eventually lose interest. We don't have dedicated resources for content development. It's up to the individual project and communities to create content. If you find something that is worth posting send it along. Derek > > Thanks. > > Bonnie > > > > Glynn Foster wrote: >> Hey, >> >> As part of today's announcement >> >> http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-03/sunflash.20080313.1.xml >> >> I thought it would be nice to have a quick call out to welcome NSA's >> participation in the community. FWIW, the project proposal went out a few >> weeks >> before this - >> >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/security-discuss/2008-February/005378.html >> >> I believe it's a nice gesture to encourage their participation in our >> community. >> Barton has more details here - >> >> http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/sun_and_nsa_open_community >> >> and the proposed addition was something like the following to the call-out >> boxes >> on the right hand side - >> >> <!-- Ad # 0 --> >> <div class="ad"> >> <div class="adtitle">NSA joins OpenSolaris</div> >> <div class="adbody"> >> The OpenSolaris project would like to warmly welcome the NSA, and their >> <a >> href="http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-03/sunflash.20080313.1.xml";>announcement</a> >> >> >> of their participation in the community with the <a >> href="http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/security-discuss/2008-February/005378.html";>Flexible >> >> >> Mandatory Access Control</a> project. >> </div> >> </div> >> >> >> thoughts? >> >> Glynn >> >> _______________________________________________ >> website-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > website-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
