[General] [Proposal] Getting Involved / HelpUs

[Mimi Yin]

Okay. The Get Involved portion of the Community Page is my best guess  
at non-technical get involved stuff: http://chandlerproject.org/ 
Projects/CommunityArea

Should we remove the Get Involved area from the Community page? And  
just have a prominent link to the real Get Involved page? Just trying  
to reduce the number of pages we need to keep up to date whenever we  
make a change.

Mimi

On Jul 9, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Ted Leung wrote:

> On Jul 6, 2007, at 7:26 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
>
>> Hi Ted, What do you think about melding Get Involved and Community?
>
> The content of these two pages is pretty different.  I think  
> putting all that information on a single page is more confusing  
> than helpful.
>
> Ted
>
>>
>> On Jul 6, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Ted Leung wrote:
>>
>>> One of the things that we need to do around Preview is to make it  
>>> easier for people to figure out how they can get involved.  At  
>>> the moment, we have a Get Involved link on each of  
>>> chandler.osafoundation.org <http://chandler.osafoundation.org/ 
>>> getinvolved.php> and cosmo.osafoundation.org <http:// 
>>> cosmo.osafoundation.org/getinvolved.php>.   The Chandler page  
>>> points to a wiki HelpUs page <http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/ 
>>> HelpUs>, while the Cosmo page contains a link to a hopelessly out  
>>> of data Bugzilla query.
>>>
>>> I'd propose the following:
>>>
>>> * We use a link called "Getting Involved" as opposed to "For  
>>> Developers", since we want to people besides developers get involved
>>> * We  we try and unify as many of the items from the current Get  
>>> Involved pages into a single page that could be linked from the  
>>> main "Get Involved" link.
>>> * We have project specific sub sections or different pages, one  
>>> for the desktop and another for the server
>>> * In keeping with Katie's message <http://lists.osafoundation.org/ 
>>> pipermail/chandler-dev/2007-July/008507.html> about reducing the  
>>> usage wiki pages for projects, i propose that we convert all  
>>> projects currently listed on the HelpUs page to bugzilla bugs,  
>>> with a HelpUs keyword.    We can use the Bugzilla Query TWiki  
>>> plugin to get an in line display of the current project list.    
>>> This will then be our sole method of managing projects that would  
>>> be good entry points for people new to one of the projects.
>>>
>>> If that proposal is acceptable, someone from each of the desktop  
>>> and server teams needs to look at the existing set of projects  
>>> and determine what is still valid, and add any other projects  
>>> which are not captured as bugs.    I will do this for the server  
>>> team, but I need some from the desktop team to look at the  
>>> desktop side.
>>>
>>> Ted
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