+1 from me too. On 30 Sep 2011, at 10:57, Steve Lee wrote:
> +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 >>
