+1 to the concept, even though I'm not in a position to help with content (yet)
Steve Lee On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the problems Wookie has is that activity is largely invisible. > Their is a fair amount going on, but the world cannot see it unless > they are subscribed to the commit list or monitor the JIRA ticket > traffic (which is unusual). This is not helping us build community. > > Scott and I are fully aware of a significant number of projects that > build on top of Wookie but never raise their heads here. We need to > change that. We need to make this list *the* place to come to in order > to understand working with W3C Widgets (and thus Wookie). To do this > we need to show how lively and exciting this project is. > > I propose that we create a news section on the project home page. We > should update this section at least once every two weeks. I'm not > thinking of big articles, just short notices about what is happening > in Wookie and the world of widgets. > > The kinds of entries I'm thinking of are: > > > "Wookie 0.9 released this week" > > "Wookie now passes 100% of the W3C Widget tests" > > "Discussion underway about whether to provide an Admin UI or whether > to simply adopt the Apache Rave UI" > > "Testing for a 0.9.1 release has started" > > "Work has begun on an experimental Widget templating system in scratchpad" > > "Learning assistant widget contributed to Wookie, thanks to the > Intellectual Property Office in the UK" > > Each item could link to the mail archives for more information, so > there would be no need to write copious amounts. > > We could start up a blog to do this, but that implies having to write > much more than the one line I have in mind. Initially writing these > would be a manual process via the CMS UI, but I see no reason why it > couldn't (eventually) be scripted so we can update with something like > > cd ~/projects/wookie > ./addnews "Learning assistant widget contributed to Wookie, thanks to > the Intellectual Property Office in the UK" > > If I get three +1s to indicate that you would add the occasional news > item to this feed (initially by the CMS interface) then I'll go ahead > and set this up. > > Ross > > -- > Ross Gardler (@rgardler) > Programme Leader (Open Development) > OpenDirective http://opendirective.com >
