On 2 December 2011 12:25, Scott Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Great stuff Scott - thanks for beating me to it ;-) Ross > > > 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 > -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
