Ted,
Extending people.apache.org with personal profiles
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For discussion purposes, I've posted an example of an ASF personal profile at <http://people.apache.org/~husted/profile.html>
... So _thats_ what you look like!
Should we encourage a more personal touch to our "who we are" pages?
My 1st reaction was that this proposal offers to replace what we already have in order to improve it, why not just improve it? Most (all?) projects already have some kind of "who we are" page(s) and so does the Membership, and whilst none of those have "personal profiles" I'm pretty sure the reason is that many of us choose to maintain a profile/bio/personal-site elsewhere on the web and refer to it from many other places. My reservations about this are that it could become just one more thing to maintain for everyone, and might actually detract from projects' "we are" stuff. I'm in favour of supporting personal profiles on people.a.o where people might _choose_ to create them, but I also think that the current people.a.o approach succeeds by imposing a very low maintenance burden, we should encourage more people to get their details on there, for sure, and we could add headshots for those who are comfortable with that (not everyone is), and support voluntary profiles which can be linked to from "we are" pages, but I'm not sure that centralising a this kind of information is necessarily a Good Thing on its own if all it does is to chip away at the uniqueness of projects' identities. Having board and member profiles is different because those people pretty much are the "we are" of the ASF, and people want that information. There's always going to be a natural tension between the ASF's and the projects' identities, and I think that we need to be careful not to swing things too far towards a united identity and away from federated project identities. As the ASF grows it is IMHO important that it doesn't also become homogenous, but retains a richness of smaller internal identities which our users and contributors can actually relate to. d. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
