----- Original Message ----- > With my shiny new PMC hat (thanks!) I've started thinking about some > useful organization and presentation for the community.a.o pages. > Shout > if you have suggested changes, or if I should not do any of these > things > someday: > > - Update the top of the page to make the intro paras more engaging,
Right now the page might say "Welcome to the Community Development project site." however, it *looks* anything but inviting :-/ > and > better explain that this is a group of Apache folk trying to better > explain the whys of the Apache Way, and providing guidance to > newcomers; > punch up the welcoming and "please ask us!" aspects. > > - Think about a second way to provide a table of contents to the > site. > I like the idea of newcomers/contributors/committers, but I think it > would be really powerful to have a second TOC that talked about > Organization, Technology, Community or similar. Short descriptive > lists > that point to mostly the same info, but with a different bent. Think > of > permuted indexes in old skool unix help. I am trying to create something similar on the ATS website: Different vectors for different groups of people: http://trafficserver.staging.apache.org/#LearnMore (Right now it too looks a little uninviting - but I'm not any good with CSS.. waiting for Zoë to come up with something..) > - Add a section on Apache Governance, as a narrative description of > the > "why" of how we do things. The details and normative descriptions of > "how" will continue to live under /dev/ or similar places as they do > now. > > Apache Governance will have the two existing essays (board, PMCs), > plus > the existing "PMCs are independent", and then I want to write a > Members, > Committers, and possibly Sponsors and Contributors pages as well. > (The > sponsors page will primarily be about how we certainly need funding, > but > that funding is never tied to influence or specific projects - a > critical lesson about ways that Apache is not governed that I think > many > folks misunderstand). > > - I'd like to add a Who We Are page to the community.a.o site. While > I > one hand I appreciate the idea that we promote our communities, don't > have @author tags, and the like, on the other hand for newcomers I > often > find that they sometimes are more willing to reach out or even just > feel > they could reach out to individuals instead of mailing lists. Even +1 > if > we don't list email addresses, I think listing who's a volunteer/PMC > on > the ComDev project would be a helpful way to put a face on this PMC. > Heck, I think it'd actually be great to have a listing with photos > and a > short bio blurb, if we have consensus to add something like that. > > > Other ideas depend on how Ross & Nick want to propose organizing > ourselves going forward, in terms of the events/speakers/slides > sections. > > - Shane i -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: i.ga...@brainsware.org URL: http://brainsware.org/ GPG: 6880 4155 74BD FD7C B515 2EA5 4B1D 9E08 A097 C9AE
