Heho,
+1 for a new structured website While self organized anarchical process tend to bring good results and new ideas, they lack where it comes to the needs of people not involveld in the process, e.g. documentation, GUI, quality mgmt etc.. opensim has a lot of information on the website, but finding something is awefull. While I got more it-pro´s and biz-owner interested in feb/march/april... we seem have to been making so much improvements (aka changes), that they got frustrated - documentation, release management , how-to´s are big problem.s On the other hand, the fact was discussed from time to time and I would think we just lack of volunteers for this housekeeping. +1 for a CMS +100 for one, that supports usual WYSIWYG-Editors. We run a web mag - and one of the biggest problem for us is, to make different authors comfortable with input tools and keep almost same style to the pages. System which support common API´s, and e.g. offer to user Windows Live Writer on Win-Platform make it easier to create and edit articles. Cheers, Ralf --- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:52:31 +0200 From: Fly Man <[email protected]> Subject: [Opensim-dev] Changes to the OpenSimulator website To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Since there's long talk about this: I would like to start by giving out an announcement about the OpenSimulator website that some people have been saying the last months: "What the heck is this website, what does it do and where's the info" After I heard this over and over again, we started the Wiki Hours on Wright Plaza on Osgrid only to hear that about everyone thinks the same about the website. Talking in the opensim-dev channel made me realise that it's time to grab the bull with its horns and submit a request/suggestion to all the questions asked. Request to make the website OpenSimulator.org a new site: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- * Make the current wiki a readonly version under /oldwiki * Make a new webpage for the OpenSimulator website ** This can easily be made in Drupal or any other CMS system * Add a new Wiki to the website that has the latest plugins and MediaWiki version * Check the old wiki for things that are recent enough to transport to the new Wiki and transport them In the opensim-dev channel was also the suggestion to add a new category to the Mantis "Documentation" and that ppl can add Mantises about things that need documentation. Further: I am suggesting that there are going to be policies to abide by (especially thanks to teravus to mention this) Please reply on this request with a +1 or a -1 and explain why, how you see this. _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
