Hi Dennis, I like your style. I'll introduce myself to those who don't know me in the near future.
What I am grasping for is documentation on the architecture and how Java based libraries like Apache POI and PDFBox would fit with Corinthia. Once I can understand this then I might be able to lean in with help with Office and PDF. Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 6, 2015, at 6:30 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dorte, > > Thank you for the introduction. So you and Jan talk every day! That > is valuable context! > > I don't think we have a shared understanding of how the web can > work for Corinthia. > > I appreciate your effort and your skill with the web pages. > > Because the web site is responsive, and the Wiki is not, it may be that > the web site is a better place to gather information. It might be a > better place to arrive at with searches on the Internet also. > > If the goal is to attract committers on existing Apache projects, it > is perhaps unclear what questions such persons have about Corinthia > and the best way to answer them. It is also not clear what is the > best way to have their attention and awareness on Corinthia. > > Those are all good questions. Thank you for pointing out that these > need to be considered. > > It is my misunderstanding about the web pages. I did not understand > them to be drafts or proposals. I took them as steps in a desired > direction. I did not want to "churn" the pages, and I did not know > where to start. I confused myself about passing changes through Jan > to you. > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dorte Fjalland [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 15:36 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Corinthia web and social media > > Hi all, Happy New Year. I can see that there has been some > correspondence now re. the Corinthia web/social media strategies and the > content so far proposed. I prefer to comment in a new post as I would not > know where else to reply. > > I made the current web proposal based on my understanding that the project > needed like a kind of "sales brochure" aimed at getting committers from > other Apache projects involved in Corinthia and therefore a site that would > be easy to overview and containing basic/essential information and with > links to all the serious and detailed stuff to be found in wikis etc. > > Reading the various mail threads i get the impression that maybe the > community should find out who they want to reach and then decide the tools. > Re the fb page and the Twitter the members who are active on those medias > can be editors/admins and provide content, but again, you can do this with > the intention of attracting new people and or a way of communicating ( in > public and with the purpose of attracting attention/new people). > > I am sorry to read that the web site proposal has been seen as a private > and already agreed on job. This was not the intention. Anyhow, if some of > you don't know it, then Jan is my husband and we do talk ... also about > Corinthia. Before I retired to Southern Spain together with Jan I used to > work with web journalism and information strategies. > > All for now, looking forward to hearing your comments. > Dorte >
