Join page changes

[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.

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Magnus 'magnusg' Glantz
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