Re: Websites Meetings
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Max Spevack <mspevack(a)redhat.com> wrote:
I'm taking my summer vacation starting tonight, and I won't
be back until
next Wednesday, so I'll be missing both of these meetings.
Hi all,
I have recently returned to the world from same :)
Which brings me to a larger topic:
A couple of months ago when Mike McGrath asked someone to start holding
Websites meetings regularly, I volunteered because I wanted to step in and
fill a need. But as you all know, I am not deeply active in the day to day
coding or design that goes on in Fedora Websites. It was always the
objective that once some momentum had been built up, and there were a number
of tasks being worked through, that "leadership" of the Websites project
could transfer to someone in the community who wanted to step into that
role.
Are we ready for that yet? Is anyone feeling inspired?
I am surprised no one responded to this post, and I don't think we are
there yet. Inspiration is only part of the puzzle for me, time is the
major factor ( i can barley make the meetings you are running :), and
I am sure that is true of others. Growing a bit more couldn't hurt.
Anyway, to your plan...
Here's the critical path, IMHO:
(1) get-fedora into F10 shape, and incorporating a link to (2), below.
My name is next to this one and I am not sure what our plan is? what
are we planning to do to improve this? I am happy to work on anything
we decide on/want to see, offer opinions or do mockups...Let's make
'getting fedora' better. I have read this, but I am not sure what we
want to do for the user to make it better:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-websites-list/2008-June/msg00231.html
(2) spins.fp.o into small, achievable milestones. The first
milestone,
IMHO, needs to be a "spin information page" which contains basic information
about the spin, a .ks and a link to torrents, ISOs (wherever they are
hosted), or other download mechanisms. The second milestone is a basic
index of all spins. The third milestone is workflow to automate the
addition and deletion of spins from the index.
(3) Finding, developing, and recruiting people who are interested in
web
application development. Making it as SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE for someone to
have a turbogears application, with Fedora look and feel, up and running on
a test instance somewhere in our infrastructure.
(4) Respond to whatever comes up on a weekly basis that needs attention.
That's my little roadmap. What do y'all think?
I think it's the right path, and I think we still need you to bust
trail :) I will bring up item 1 in the next meeting, but don't know
anything about 2 other than it was to be a web app of sorts, and not
just a set of static pages.
my $.02
--
Craig
--Max