I've made a start on this, adding a news page with a couple of items in it. Next I'll add it to the site nav.
On 30 Sep 2011, at 12:28, Ross Gardler wrote: > 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
