On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Adir Abraham wrote:
On 12/3/05, Alon Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, so what site do we link to in our cross-country advertising efforts
like on Google and in ICON, or you think we need to buy four different ads
on Google and have four stands at ICON because the clubs can't cooperate
between themselves?
You think that the clubs should/must cooperate between themselves. I say
that each site should take care of itself, and there should be one "central
unit" which its purpose is to sync between the clubs, by checking:
1) What are every clubs' needs.
2) Where lecturers are needed.
3) Financial support for all kinds of problems and ideas.
Each club should talk to ONE central unit which is in charge to collect all
this information and mungle it to something useful, if possible. This
central unit shouldn't bother each club but can advice (not force) each club
what to do, according to the central unit's priorities and resources.
You can't expect each club to broadcast its needs all around, hoping that
each club will listen and take care of the rest. This kind of sharing is
nice when we're talking about file-sharing, but not about real-life events
:) Each club, after all, is unique and should act like an autonomy. The TA
crowd is not the Jerusalem crowd, is not Haifa's crowd, etc. If we get to
the fact that the central unit forces the clubs to do what he asks them to
do, or in other words, it gets to demanding - the central unit is not doing
something right, and we miss the beauty of each club. The simplest example
is the general w2l site. This should give short info about the events and
should link to the CLUBS sites. Each club should take care of its event
site, and this way we're all satisfied:
1) each club took care of its own autonomy
2) the central unit did very little work and can work with the pointer and
not with the clubs themselves
If you want to help as a central unit, you actually should act like a
matching and sync unit, and not as a brute-force communist unit. In other
words I say that if this is not possible to let each club do its way and get
one unit to sync between the events, we should let each club take care of
itself, and a unit like Hamakor can help at a FCFS basis. Nobody said that
you have to run after the clubs and give each club a seperate advertisment,
etc.
Why build FOUR different sites, each mantained by different people
investing their precious time instead of building ONE site for all envents.
There is no tailoring of the series to the geographical location. The
different lectures which require a lot of duplicate effort are a result of
lack of coordination between the clubs.
I am a big fan of refactoring. That is, reduce the total amount of effort
by doing common tasks only once. If we have a site that links to the clubs'
sites, then people from Haifa would see a site in English and with only one
future lecture, people from Jeruslaem will have to navigate a different
site, and people from Tel Aviv will see no site at all. Not to mention the
fact that it will look very unprofessional (and degrades usability) that
changing a geographic location changes the entire design and navigation of
the site.
Alon
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