Re: [archhurd-devel] Re: Website change ideas

[Jordan Roy <info@jordanroy.net>]

Hi guys!

I'll comment on some of those ideas. The blog idea, imo, is a nice one.
All the "pros" are really positive. The "con", having yet another
control panel, could be avoided by using one sction of the BBS, wich
could be blocke from posting new posts, and show that on the front
page, as the blog.

ALso, I am totally against any integration with Facebook. The Hurd is a
nice initiative based on FOSS values. Freedom and privacy are amongst
the core values of the FOSS movement. Implementing some Facebook
feature on Arch Hurd website would be a huge cognitive dissonance imo.

As fot the other suggestions, I think they all are great ideas!

Jordan

On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 13:22:43 +0100
Michael Walker <mike@barrucadu.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi guys, (sorry about not being on IRC recently)
> 
> Since the Archlinux website changed I've been thinking about how to
> improve the Arch Hurd website, and not just by changing the design to
> match the new one, rather, using the change of archlinux.org to
> inspire a change in archhurd.org and produce a nicer-looking and more
> functional website. Here are a few ideas:
> 
> Â* Design change (not sure what just yet, give me time to think about
> it and try a few things)
> Â Â Â- Should include possible ad-space, maybe a square advert in the
> header.
> Â Â Â- Current design doesn't have any indication on *getting* Arch
> Hurd, users have to turn to the wiki. This must be remedied.
> Â* Replace news with a blog:
> Â Â Â- Pros:
> Â Â Â Â Â* Allows comments - community involvement ftw
> Â Â Â Â Â* Allows categories - could have a non-news category, such as
> mini tutorials, for example. Not sure whether this is a good idea
> Â Â Â Â Â* Allows pages - thus, the main website could be entirely
> under the control of a CMS, making adding and changing content
> trivial.
> Â Â Â- Cons:
> Â Â Â Â Â* Would introduce another control panel (ie: the blog one)
> and so remove power from dev.archhurd.org
> Â* Slim down forum until it grows to a point where we need more boards
> - this would make the forum look busier and so perhaps invite more
> activity:
> Â Â Â- Could merge "Hurd Discussion" and "Off Topic" into one "General
> Discussion" board
> Â Â Â- Could merge "Community Contributions" and "Artwork and
> Screenshots" into "Community Showcase"
> Â* Make a matching layout for lists.archhurd.org and
> projects.archhurd.org
> Â* Move from using gitweb to cgit for projects.archhurd.org, perhaps?
> Â* Financing:
> Â Â Â- Perhaps add a donators list - the existence of such a list on
> archlinux.org played a role (albeit small) in my decision to donate.
> Â Â Â- Add Flattr to try and get smaller donations which will,
> hopefully, add up to big (or even reasonable) donations.
> Â Â Â- Advertising on archhurd.org (unless anyone is greatly opposed)
> Â* Community:
> Â Â Â- Facebook page (I've started on this, will finish it later)
> Â Â Â- identi.ca group (do we have one? I can't remember)
> Â Â Â- Push news updates to identi.ca and the facebook group, perhaps
> also to the IRC channel
> 
> Does anyone have any more ideas, or objections or suggestions for my
> ideas? I think the website is one of the things holding Arch Hurd back
> a bit (in addition to the slow and sparse updates in the past few
> months), so I want to make it much nicer and, above all, make people
> want to investigate further.
> 
>