Hi Mathias, *, On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 09:49:20AM +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: > > - Some project leads want to reduce the very strong separation between > users and contributors.
Agreed.. > - OTOH there are concerns that the majority of people interested in OOo > are "pure" users and will stay so and they might get bored by content > more centred on contributors. True as well. > - There is some demand that the application links on the start page > should point to project pages addressing both users and contributors. And here the problem starts: The pages that shall be linked are not available yet. (in a suitable presentation) > As > a compromise the current pages could link to the project pages. The > motivation was that the current project navigation is awkward and people > might never find e.g. the Calc project page. Now things get mixed up/start to be confusing. What is awkward is http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html But the project pages that should have pointers to the devel-content are these: http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.html > [...] > My personal summary of this would be: > > - Let's agree that we add a Chart link to the home page like the one to > Math as soon as the new chart is integrated into OOo. Of course we > already have a Chart module but I doubt that Ingrid will want to > document this one so IMHO it makes sense to wait a bit. This is basically already agreed upon (with the premise that a page exists that fits the other product pages). > - Let's agree to have links to the "other products" URE and SDK > somewhere on the home page. New pages have to be created before. Agreed as well. > [redesign the project page http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html] +1 > Another point I would like to rise: could we have a more prominent link > to the "contribute" page, perhaps equally in visibility and size to the > "get OOo" or the "Native Language" button? More prominent than in the toptabs? I fear that with the "other projects" stuff the page will get crowded again. IMHO it's better to have the contributing page linked from other pages.. ciao Christian -- NP: Dimmu Borgir - Broderskapets Ring --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
