Very well put.
I totaly agree with Guy.
guy keren wrote:
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.
