Re: Getting Started With WO site

Hello all,
This discussion is really great. It is really getting at some of the  
core issues we are having with getting together a community portal.  
The issue that Gavin brings up is a real one. It seems like we are  
all thinking and leaning towards having documentation and resources  
managed more like the Eclipse/WOLips projects, that is to say, via a  
dedicated core team that will provide the main thrust for collecting  
and classifying documentation and resources, that is both well- 
managed but is still completely and 100% open to the community to add  
their contributions, edits and own additions.

I think we have some very good ideas formulating here: get an easy to  
remember url; build an elegant wiki-style resources pages that is  
managed through a core team made up of a few committed members; have  
the site open for the community for updates and edits; and link to  
all the great resources out there that wish to maintain autonomy. The  
role of the core team would be to get the lates docs out, to edit and  
publish tutorials, contribute to documenting the open source  
development arm, and to generally moderate the site and keep things  
in order.  Hopefully, the core team can also negotiate with Apple to  
provide whatever support they can to the site by perhaps giving us  
some of the old WO sessions and tutorials, et cetera.

The site could have a blog component but will not necessarily take  
over any of the great independent blogs out there. I think there is  
room for both. We can link to all the blogs and resources out there  
that do not wish to become part of the site, and at the same time,  
have a core team of contributors that will make sure the site is up  
to snuff and is alive with fresh material.

I think we are still waiting on an answer from Apple on how they and  
if they will support this effort.

Nonetheless, David, please count me in.

-jay


> Hey all,
>
> For those of you who are not attending WWDC, there has been a  
> lively discussion about many things WO. Motivated by this I whipped  
> together a WO Getting Started page <http:// 
> gettingstartedwithwo.codeferous.com/> and I'd like to get your  
> feedback.
>
> This is just a baby step, but please let me know if you think I'm  
> heading in the right direction.
>
> This the first of what I hope will be a trio of sites:
>
> I would like to create a general WO news blog (with multiple core  
> contributers) so there is a central clearing house for news of  
> interest to the WO community (new features in Wonder or WOLips,  
> announcements from Apple, significant additions to the wikkibook,  
> good blog posts, etc).
>
> I would also like to create a tutorial blog where short clear  
> graphical task-oriented tutorials could be posted - I have some  
> ideas of how I'd want these tutorials to be presented, but I still  
> have to work out the style guidelines (I'm thinking: short on text,  
> long on screenshots or maybe screencasts).
>
> I approach this with some trepidation - because someone seems to  
> try and do something like this once a year - but my goal is to  
> present unified (a dare I say) inviting front to new developers to  
> the WebObjects platform. We have a ton of outstanding material in  
> the various wikis and lists, and I have no interest in replacing  
> that, but I'd like to give new users a way to find and make sense  
> of what is there.
>
> Again, feedback (and offers of assistance) is welcome and appreciated.
>
> --
> ;david
>
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