On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Remko Tronçon <[email protected]> wrote: > When I surf to jabber.org, I want to see a professional looking page > with 2 things: > - A 3-line explanation of what jabber is
Where is the text of the Drupal-based former website? > - A button with "Join now", which creates me an account on the Jabber > network by only asking me questions that I know the answer to (Name, > Email, Preferred login name) You got now the "Join now!", but still no form ;-) > What I do see is: > - A website that looks like a perpetual work in progress. Pretty > scary, doesn't really sound like a good IM service to me. > - About 50 links, many of which are uninteresting (the sidebar, > because it's a wiki) I've minimized the size of this sidebar (can be reverted). > - "Create account" links that don't create a Jabber account True, still no form, it's page full of text. Who has got such a piece of script/software? > - Links to events that have passed, but nobody dares to touch the > front page, because nobody owns that page Done. > - Links to things like 'discussion' that give me an error This does'nt to me although I understand some people might think so watching a big input field. > - A quickstart guide that tells me to pick a server (a what? why?) We can drive the user to "jabber.org IM service', but shouldn't we be software/service-agnostic? > - A box saying that there have been GMail issues. When was that? This > morning? Last week? It seems this Jabber thing has lots of issues with > GMail, because it's been there for quite a while. (Why is it there? > Exactly, nobody dares to touch it) Done. > Want me to go on? :) Yes, please! ;-) > Anyway, I'm not going to rant about Wikis anymore, this isn't helping. > I do believe that Peter's suggestion is a good one: one simple page to > get people hooked up with Jabber fast, that we can refer people to if > they want to chat on Jabber. One translator per language would be nice > to have the site translated, with a good system in place that notifies > of changes (which shouldn't happen often) to this page. > > cheers, > Remko If it's an overworked-two-persons, closed-loop work, the don't rant about the lack of contributions. No? ;-) If not, then let the contributions come in by seeding/starting/igniting, like we both do today here. Nÿco -- Nicolas Vérité (Nÿco) mailto:[email protected] Jabber ID : xmpp:[email protected] http://linuxfr.org/ - http://fr.wikipedia.org/ - http://www.jabberfr.org/ - http://qsos.org/ Adhérez à l'April : http://april.org/ _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
