Re: Join page changes
ons 2009-01-14 klockan 08:52 +0100 skrev Magnus Glantz:
tis 2009-01-13 klockan 11:06 -0800 skrev Karsten Wade:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:48:27PM +0100, Magnus Glantz wrote:
> > Oh, and I think I prefer the advanced option - to reduce the number of
> > clicks needed to take part of the information which needed to take a
> > step decision on whether to contribute.
>
> I'd forgotten that there is also work underway by the Websites team on
> a new top-level join page that replaces wiki/Join. Does anyone here
> have a link to that?
>
> It is probably still helpful to have per-project information
> maintained by the project, on their wiki page. There really isn't a
> one-size-fits-all join method for each sub-project. Each needs to
> give it their own twist and details.
>
> - Karsten
I'm not sure how a new top-level Join page could affect this. I guess the information
on such a page would probably be more static.
My thought was that even without wiki/Join and with similar information on a top-level
join page, this would be still be useful..
..to increase the number of new contributors.
..to increase contributor movement between project.
..to increase multiple sub-project involvement amongst existing contributors (one person
involved in more than on project).
..to catch people that does not come in via the Fedora-join page.
I'm not sure this information block have to contain information about how to join a
project.
But of course, that would be the best thing. Though, I think that most important is that
it contains information about what roles can contribute in what ways to a project.
We discussed on IRC that creating a template for this might be a good
way to do it. A question about that: Is it possible to create a template
that can include or exclude images/text depending on what the template
user wants? Each sub-project will not have contributor support for all
roles, so I think this is a must.
So, any more thoughts about this?
Simple table, more advanced table or nothing at all?
I guess, if the new join page being worked on contains completely
different content, like, different roles or such, it would be best to
wait for the new join page.
I've asked the fedora-websites-list to see if they know.
Placing "join this project" tables that explain how to contribute on the
sub-project pages would only take a hour or two. Using a template would
perhaps be a bit to complicated? KISS? :-)
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