2011/10/31 Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]>
> On 10/31/11 5:55 AM, Dave Fisher wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 30, 2011, at 9:37 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
>>
>> The stuff you are doing is too arcane for me and not where I notice
>>> problems. I notice things in the content itself at the staging site (
>>> ooo-site.apache.org). I might be able to learn to edit the
>>> ooo/ooo-site pages, but I don't want to get ahead of myself.
>>>
>>> Not sure which works better, bugzilla for some, wiki for others. Just
>>> not sure. Is there a bugzilla "project" for these. www?
>>>
>>> - Dennis
>>>
>>> PS: Examples - the sort of thing I am noticing
>>>
>>> 1. I had a lengthy back-and-forth with Larry Rosen on Terms of Use and
>>> have guidance that I think will work with regard to wiki, forum, and site
>>> pages. (Not the same for all of them.) Also about Trademarks. (What you
>>> have at the bottom of the main pages is close, others need more care. May
>>> be a few variations to use.)
>>>
>>
>> Good. I wanted some guidance here. CWiki?
>>
>> Or, let's find the pages and make the changes.
>>
>>
>>> 2. A Q about the bottom-of-page use of the feather and mention of "the
>>> Apache CMS."
>>>
>>
>> I've asked [email protected] in general about the look. What's your
>> question? I just sort of came up with it and now I'm asking too.
>>
>>
>>> 3. Bug on the left of this
>>> page:<http://ooo-site.apache.**org/es/<http://ooo-site.apache.org/es/>>
>>> above the blue bar.
>>>
>>
>> You mean "We're sorry"? I'm not sure either. There are lots of little
>> flaws like that. URLs are somewhat random, some are fully qualified and
>> others are properly relative. This includes css and js that are not always
>> found. These are the kinds of errors that will take some tedious time to
>> handle.
>>
>> 4. This page, for Downloads, linked from the ES home page, has a PayPal
>>> button and solicits $25 donations for downloads:<
>>> http://ooo-site.apache.org/es/**programa/index.html<http://ooo-site.apache.org/es/programa/index.html>>.
>>> The solicitations are for the "oooES" PayPal account.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I've flagged that as well - Alexandro should be able to explain
>> oooES. I think it is in a similar category to Team OpenOffice. I've found a
>> paypal button in the Greek site to an individual for translation work. Not
>> sure about others yet. I'll know when we're complete. These were all
>> sanctioned at some point and I think the PPMC will need to decide policy in
>> conversation with [email protected].
>>
>>
> i think it's very confusing to have this individual donation places and i
> would remove them all. Furthermore i would suggest that we really rethink
> our portal "www.openoffice.org" in the near future. I don't see the
> necessity of having too much different content on the localized pages. A
> 1:1 translation of the English pages should be ok for all. Maybe each
> regional page can have their own news feed to announce local events but
> that's it. We should keep it simple.
>
Yes, this is a good idea...IMO.
>
> All the community work and information specific to regional communities
> should move into the wiki and forum from my point of view. Main development
> work and communication around this is done in English anyway.
>
This was discussed (somewhat) early on. I, like you, felt the N-L
communities might be better served by moving them to the wiki. But, then
the question was -- who should do this? Should anyone (else) take ownership
of these areas?
>
> And i don't think that this is similar to Team OpenOffice.org because Team
> OpenOffice.org was the only official instance that was allowed to collect
> donations from the OOo sites. All others were not allowed as far as i know.
> They were tolerated but not more. Don't ask me why, i have never understood
> this.
>
> well, that is my personal opinion
>
> Juergen
>
>
>
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