On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 03:39 -0500, Patrick Barnes wrote:
>I have been looking over the many Fedora-related sites and gathering
>information about what is out there and how it is organized. I have
>been trying to determine what really needs improvement and how that
>improvement can be achieved. I had some thoughts relating to
>http://fedoraproject.org and posted them to fedora-docs-list, and it was
>suggested that I send them here (fedora-marketing-list) instead. I have
>also sent this message to Seth Vidal. Below is an excerpt from my
>original post:
>
>I'm not sure how many people actually use this base URL, but it needs
>some loving.
>
>One idea that I had is that this URL could redirect to
>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ and that the Wiki's front page could
>feature all of the existing links, with a brief description. This would
>allow easier maintenance, and would automagically make the page more
>useful.
>
>With Red Hat announcing the creation of The Fedora Foundation, it seems
>like Fedora's information will eventually move away from
>fedora.redhat.com to its own domain. I don't know if this would be
>fedoraproject.org or something entirely different. If the migration is
>to
fedoraproject.org, then my above suggestion would not create any
>problems. Simply removing the redirect and dropping content similar to
>fedora.redhat.com would be acceptable. The Wiki and the rest of the
>fedoraproject.org hierarchy would not conflict with the content
>currently at
fedora.redhat.com, and links could be added to whatever
>main page is at the base URL to direct people to the current
>fedoraproject.org content. If anyone needs any clarification on my
>thinking, drop me a line.
>
>
Here's what I think:
I agree with you about the
fedoraproject.org page needing to be more
useful.
Put together a prototype for the front page. I think doing it all
exclusively in the wiki will result in a fairly ugly webpage but I'm
open to give it a try.
Set yourself up a wiki account, I'll give you privs to change a page and
you make a 'newfrontpage' page and we'll work from there to see if it
works.
It's a good place to start and if it all looks well I'll do the leg work
to turn it into the main page.
sound cool?
-sv
Sounds good to me. My wiki account is PatrickBarnes.
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Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes
nman64(a)n-man.com