Re: [native-lang] Re: [website-dev] getting all mailing lists into mailing lists list

Hello Clytie,

FYI: this is the mailing list page as it stands today: do you think it 
could be a good base to start with?
http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html

Best,
Charles.

Clytie Siddall a écrit :
> To: dev@website
> Cc: dev@NLP
> 
> We've been discussing mailing-lists on dev@native-lang., the fact that 
> there are so many of them, and people can't or don't find them to 
> communicate with each other.
> 
> I still think a central mailing-list page, reached from the front page, 
> is a good idea. It doesn't have to list all mailing lists. It can list 
> the main lists for each section (we can have a Misc section for lists 
> their members don't think fit anywhere), with a tooltip for each list to 
> explain its function and save webpage-space. At the end of each short 
> group of mailing lists for each major project or category, would be a 
> "More lists..." link. This would take you to a separate page listing 
> _all_ mailing lists for that main project or category, and/or listing 
> the separate mailing-lists pages involved.
> 
> I envisage something like a Site Map, possibly with an 
> easily-recognizable icon for each main project/category. Each main part 
> has several child items, then the "More lists..." link.
> 
> It would give the user an overview of the OOo lists, which currently we 
> don't have. It constructs a viable hierarchy of information.
> 
> I also propose each main project/category choose one list to be their 
> root information target, and labelled as such on these pages (small 
> icon, different colour), identifying it as the list for that group to 
> which you should send new information.
> 
> It's very difficult for someone outside your project to know how you 
> handle your information flow. Designating a root information-target list 
> shows people where to send that first email saying:
> 
> "We're looking at/starting X. These are our aims. These people are 
> involved. Please see our main wiki page/webpage. [link] We invite you to 
> contribute by..."
> 
> I would like to work on this. What do you think?
> 
> from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm 
> Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
> 
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