Re: Get Involved and related wiki areas

Hi Sheila,

At a high level your proposal looks fine to me.   See inline for some  
questions on the details:

On Jun 14, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Sheila Mooney wrote:

> So I have been tasked with driving the effort to organize the Get  
> Involved wiki areas. Of course when I started to look at this,  
> there are a bunch of related links like For Developers, the FAQs  
> etc that we should look at too. As a first step I wanted to do an  
> inventory of the current links and what pages they go to. Here is  
> the current hierarchy....
>
> + We have a desktop landing page with links to....
> 	+ Get Involved page
> 	+ For Developers page
> 	+ Product FAQ
>
> + We have a Cosmo landing page with links to....
> 	+ Get Involved page
> 	+ For Developers page
> 	+ Product FAQ
>
> For each of the landing pages, these links point to different pages  
> which are customized specifically for the particular product or  
> project.
>
> + The Product, Teams, Projects all have links on the left nav to  
> Get Involved, For Developers and the Product FAQ. but they are not  
> currently active. These pages are more general so we don't have the  
> context of pointing to a particular FAQ or Get Involved page.
>
> Mimi and I chatted and we came up with the following proposal for  
> Preview.
>
> Proposal:
>
> + Create single main pages for Get Involved, For Developers and the  
> FAQ. This means we can link to this single page from the main  
> landing page as well as all the wiki pages. We are looking at a  
> single centralized landing page for Preview anyhow and won't have  
> the 2 main pages that we do now.
> + Obviously there is different information specific to the end-user  
> related info and the server specific information so we would  
> structure these pages with sections or a table of contents so users  
> can easily get at the information they need. Alternatively, we  
> could keep the main page brief and create links to secondary pages  
> for product specific info.
> + In keeping with this structure we would generalize the "log a  
> bug" and "report a problem" information as well.
>
> Mimi and I did a brainstorm of what type of information would go in  
> each page....
>
> - Get Involved
> 	- IRC
> 	- Lists
> 	- Feedback
> 	- Log a bug
> 	- Roles - ways to contribute
> 	- Projects
I'm not sure what would go here - is this just a list of the various  
OSAF projects?
> 	- Help us page
I think that we need an overhaul of our approach to "Help us" -- I  
was expecting to tackle that -- is that in line with your thinking here?
> 	- Governance
>
> - FAQ
> 	- One FAQ with sections
> 	- End user chandler desktop/hub/casual collaborator
> 	- Server

What about Developer FAQ questions?  Does that go here or under For  
Developers

>
> - For Developers
> 	- One page with sections
> 	- Server
> 	- Web front end
> 	- Desktop
I think that we could start with one page here, but that we will end  
up needing a page each instead of a section each.   But this is  
probably a good start.

Ted

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