On 2011-12-06 4:52 PM, Brett Porter wrote:
Sounds like good ideas.
I understand your concerns earlier in the thread, however I still
think /governance belongs on www.a.o. I don't want to see
community.a.o generating a lot of new content outside of its scope of
enabling new contributors and "signposting" - there's enough problems
with docs being split between incubator and www.a.o/dev as it is :)
- Brett
ACK. Anyone else want to +1 making this be either www.a.o/governance or
www.a.o/foundation/governance?
I just mentally found it easier to put stuff on community.a.o to start
with, but I see your point.
- Shane
On 07/12/2011, at 3:19 AM, Shane Curcuru wrote:
[PROPOSAL] I plan to create community.a.o/governance with:
/index: brief overview for new readers, and link to the subpages. I was
thinking of having two lists linked to the subpages: one by organizational
hierarchy (the board is on top), one by importance (the PMCs are on top).
/board
/membership (writing now)
/pmcs
/committers (tbd)
/contributors (tbd)
/users (tbd, wondering if we should write this one to show that users don't
directly participate in governance, other than that most healthy projects will
pay attention to user needs)
/orgchart - we really need one. Shows the board at the top left, then three
columns:
====
- Operations: prez reports solid line to board and prez directs VP, Infra to
keep machines going
- Strategy: various other officers solid line report to the board directly
- Projects: two chunks of things:
-- Meta projects: attic, conferences, community, etc.
-- Code projects: example listing httpd, Hadoop, Lucene, etc.
Projects all *dotted* line report to the board for oversight. Emphasize how
the ASF is about supporting projects.
====
Update the homepage to provide a quick table of contents in terms of concepts
(additionally to the way we provide contents for "who are you?" of
newcomers/committers/etc.)
- Intro paragraphs
- How can we help? If you're new/committer/contributor/etc
- What do you want to learn? See governance, technical how-tos, etc.
- About the comdev project
- How to ask questions! (explicitly explain mailing lists to draw people
towards them)
- Shane
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