I never did get to answer this but I think this is a sound idea. I do this there needs to be a structural/persecptual difference between a developer's note/announcement and a longer article...may be three information tracks on the homepage are needed. One for 'headlines' (longer comprehensive articles) a shorter snippet tracks for quick announcements ( OK bug fixed..) and something that has the latest user submitted faq/annotation/whatever from the general using public. ( that should have some sort of approval gate to keep pokiman announcements to a minimum......)
Sound reasonable? kp > -----Original Message----- > From: Tarjei Huse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [midgard-user] Midgard-lite and publicity > > > Suggestion: > > 1. post each newsitem to it from a nr. of developers (alexander, > emile, bergie, > rambo, armand+++) to an imap account. > 2. Instead of sending the items out, have a crondjob move'em to > articles the > frontpage of www.midgard-project.org every hour. > 3. Lower the barriers of entry so that emile can write "Ok, now I > fixed the bug > that prevents php2.0 users from using midgard." > 4. Also post (dynamicly) new questions from the faq + new > anotations from the > manual. > > The goal with this is to: > 1. Make the frontpage look more "alive" > 2. Create a dynamic newsletter. > > Could this be an option? Does anyone have a php-class for > pharsing imap emails > to midgard articles? > > Tarjei > > pp wrote: > > > > > I am not disagreeing with you...if this is the goal of the > information in > > > the MWS then I don't see why we publish it as a single > monolithic pub., why > > > not write and publish stories as they come up? This would make it MUCH > > > easier to make information flow through the website and make > it easier to > > > make sure that visitors who find our site have interesting new news. > > > > News, ability to comment the news. > > Links related to news. Some part "connected" to manual. > > Some "hot" tips for midgard environment. > > > > Things like that? > > > > >The > > > downside of that is that we do send that single e-mail to a > few publications > > > like LinuxWeeklyNews, and Wrox press...my point in all of > this is that I > > > think we need to do some priority assignment and reconsider > the way we have > > > publicized the project. > > >How do we get people to the site in the first place > > > needs to be a part of the answer as well as what they find > when they get > > > there. > > > > I read only midgard manual , cause I still do not get idea of > midgard site. > > It is rather like stiff man for me. > > But on the other hand it is not news site. > > > > Piotras > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
