On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Alon Altman wrote: > 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.
and since this lack of coordination appears to stick, and runs into arguments instead of helping each other - we should consider changing the way we do things, to require minimal co-ordination. we are unable to agree about how to do things. the lectures are all done differently because eventually, the people gibing the lectures decide what they'll talk about, and each club has its own agenda. no one wants to be a puppet and just give the lecture as someone else wrote it - everyone wants their personal touch. since i think these issues are inherent to the peole involved (and these same people will probably be involved again next year) - there is no point in trying to change the people. the effort will be performed several times anywa - lets simply acknowledge this and act accordingly. > 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. but this is not a single entity - that's the whole point. these are 4 (for now) seperate clubs, who want to run things differently. so the main site will only point to the different clubs' sites, and let each club have their site their own way. there's nothing unprofessional about this - you see it this way, because you have an assumption that there is only one w2l series that just happenes to be given in seperate places at the same time. unfortunately, as we can see, this is not what eventually happens. -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
