Hi Peter and Alysson, Thanks for these additional comments, maybe what we have is really a new page for Values and Code of Conduct? I'm not sure, but what you've both said below is more along the lines of the Learn More page that we spent a good deal of time on in April. (That was part of the 'splash pages' effort we completed for the launch.) I've put together a set of links, based on your feedback here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/website/About_new
Notes: Ignore all the inconsistent formatting for now. I think the Contact page needs to be updated to add content from both of the Help pages we already have and a link to OGB. I think the about/roadmap is useful, but it should be moved to a different part of the site related to Consolidations (just my opinion), so I left it out of the list. The about/buttons are pretty old, so I also left those out because they should be updated and potentially moved also. I then added a slightly modified Values page and a Getting Involved page. Aside: Should the Site Map continue to appear in this section of the left navigation bar? There are things in that section that aren't in os/about and there are things in os/about that aren't in the navigation bar, so I'd like very much to improve and make that consistent. I think that covers all of the content that is currently under os/about, just to help us get a sense of what we're dealing with and how we might combine and streamline everything. Thanks again for your time to help and review/comment, let me know what you think. -Michelle Peter Tribble wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Alysson Troffer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I like Peter's suggestions to add an explanation of the basic structural >> elements that exist for OpenSolaris because that helps to explain what >> OpenSolaris is. I, too, was initially surprised to see the Code of Conduct >> in the About page, but then once I read the text, it seemed fine to have it >> there, given that OpenSolaris is a community that abides by that Code of >> Conduct. >> > > It seems extremely wrong to me. I think it gives the wrong impression - > that we're sufficiently dysfunctional that we have to have our code of > conduct so prominently displayed. I think it's aimed at the wrong audience > as well - reading it it's aimed at people already in the community, which > doesn't fit with an about page. > > >> Peter, what would you say in the About page about what OpenSolaris *isn't*? >> > > For example, it's not Solaris. And it's not a way of getting free support. And > it's not OpenSolaris, either. (I don't envy whoever has to come up with the > explanation of how OpenSolaris [the community and development project] and > OpenSolaris [the nascent distro] are and aren't related.) > > _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list website-discuss@opensolaris.org
