That's 3 +1's (I'm counting Steves as I have a plan ;-) It'll happen when I find the time.
Ross On 30 September 2011 11:18, Scott Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > +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 >>> > > -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
