Hi Louis,
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
OOo is in the news a lot around the world --that's good. We track our
media presence via the announce newsletter [0] and the blogspot
newsletter [1]. Plus, many of the NLC projects maintain their own
archives.
It would be nice to have a single destination that would be easy to
maintain and that we could all reference. We can use the blogspot, the
wiki (I created, but have not populated, http://
wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/News_Archives). What would be best
is if the news archives could also be broken into channels, eg,
Migration, How-Tos, Interviews, articles, etc. I tend to think that for
this categorization, the wiki would be best.
The point is to be able to answer the obvious questions about OOo and
to be able to point to actual news sources. We have tried versions of
this before we had the wiki at our disposal--didn't work, too much of a
hassle and was confusing, too. But even having links to locally
maintained sites would be great. Just something that quickly gives
visitors what they need to form (positive) judgements.
I think this is important: that we (can) give right information, not all
information.
Also because - as you mention - maintaining wiki's (or a nice database
for a search on catagories ...) is not easy.
Speaking of my own situation: I keep records of (some of the) news that
is important for my audience. For me the Newsletter and BlogSpots are
important sources. And it's my task to take out what is important for my
goal.
If someone wants all the news, I would advice Google :-)
We can also use these for followups--case studies, etc.--and to add to
the ever-growing "Solutions" [2], "Major Deployments" [3], "Derived
Works" [4]; and, the Migrations Docs pag [5].
Since to much information causes overload, I would suggest not to add as
much as possible, but just the really good stuff.
The information we offer via these sources, most often is what people
get extra once there interest has been caught already by news in general
media.
What I would like to see ultimately is a page that gives consumers and
businesses fast access to news, information, documentation (how to use
the thing), downloads, extensions, ancillary works (templates, for
instance), and support options. We have much of that already, it's
just scattered. Let's start pulling it together :-)
I see two wishes in you post: one reference for all news, and a portal
for all OOo related things.
( Which would you like first ;-) )
General public is supposed to find us on www.openoffice.org .
So that is the place for easy navigation and clear pointers, (also to 1
to 5 you mentioned).
Maybe this reply is not so enthusiastic. Sorry, it's not really what I
intend. Only my idea is, that small improvements shall work out better
than huge new projects. Unless we come to the conclusion that our
current approach is totally wrong, of course.
Best wishes,
Cor
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Cor Nouws
Arnhem - Netherlands
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