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

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