Re: Burrokeet presentation

I don't know much about Burrokeet. I had hoped to learn more at Anil's 
pre-presentation meeting. Unfortunately, my cable guy turned up and I 
had to stay late to lock up after him.

Now, I'm not sure of all the issues involved in setting up a website for 
a school. But, there's one thing I truly believe in and that's laziness.

Nobody, myself included, wants to do any more work than they absolutely 
have to. That's one of the main ideas behind computing as a whole. So 
whatever solution Burrokeet provides, it needs to be stone-axe simple.

I came across an idea on a link off the BBC. Some site is offering a 
service to football clubs. Apparently, in the UK, people are really into 
being part of a football club. I suppose running around a football field 
means they pay less for heating, or something. Anyhow.

So this site, realising that people who join football clubs, aren't too 
clever, has made a template that they just have to fill in. A few 
photos, some stats on how many times your team has lost and presto! you 
have a professionally done football club website. You too can look like 
ManU!

So, here's the thinking. Suppose instead of requiring people to learn 
ANYTHING about Burrokeet, we use Burrokeet to create a template for a 
school.

Let's say, a schedule of events during the term, a message board for all 
those innumerable letters asking for MORE MONEY, a sports page with 
places to stick your school's prize winning photos, a year book page so 
you can forget who you went to school with, etc. etc.

I mean, if the Burrokeet producers can't do all this, how in XXXX do we 
expect a school to?

Now I, being lazy AND fat, have only ever learned the barest amount of 
HTML, no Javascript and Java, suggest that those words should NEVER 
appear anywhere in the documentation of Burrokeet. The only words the 
target audience should ever see are "point-and-click", "drag-and-drop", 
"cut-and-paste", etc. (Yes, those are words, Oxford is just slow again)

So the Burrokeet presentation lasts longer than 5 minutes, requires the 
user to do anything more than type and drag pictures with a mouse, it's 
a lost cause.

My 2 cents.

Of course, the usual disclaimer about not having yet finished my second 
cup of coffee and therefore, not responsible for coherent thought, applies.

Richard

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