Another point I like to discuss is - and that relates to the sorts of NEWS, of what actually is GNOME News, which appears on www.gnome.org/indes.html:
Right now there are only a few entries under "Latest News". But if one would think selecting [News] in the tilebar gives you more of the same - it does not. Also neither is "Latest News" selectable or is there a "Read more news..." at the bottom of this part. I think there should be one feed of news which is what also is being displayed on the front page. And this should be rather a selection of official GNOME News (like the http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/ ) This is not a simple question, but nonetheless an important one. My suggestion would be to also migrate www.gnome.org/press/releases/ to a blog (but rather to news.gnome.org/pressreleases or so) ASAP as a first step. AFAIK news.gnome.org is not planned to run with Plone? What would be important is to present users things like tag cluds, so they can fish for the content they are looking for in news.gnome.org and press releases, also. Some thoughts should go into what categories and tags are chosen. Another problem with syndicated content is that each source will have different conten licenses. Also if you link to outside sources you are actually loosing visitors. So I think news.gnome.org should work more on content it owns and can choose the license it wishes. The current site states that the content listes above is copyrighted by the GNOME project, while linked blog entries like http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2007/09/27/future-of-lat/ explicitly state: "© 2008, Loren Bandiera’s weblog. All Rights Reserved." I suggest adding at least an explanation that the actual entries have a copyright according to the policy of the aggregated blogs. It would also make sense to have an official policy which content policies are ok for news.gnome.org. I am not a lawyer, but how should one deal with aggregated content with a strict copyright? On the one hand it is aggregateable and free accessible on the net - but on the other hand an author states that it may not be copied without his affirmation. I guess this could be dealt with by requiring and archiving the affirmation. That is another reason why ot would be better to have GNOME owned or freely licensed content on every GNOME main page - and to only show titles of news/blog entries for all outside content. That's not just nit-picking but having a clear policy would make it easier for maintainers of the sites to determine what is right or wrong and to be able to act without having to check back with anybody else, which would otherwise be adviseable. I havent read of any official policy yet. Is there any? Regards, Thilo _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
