Re: A comment on your website content

On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 12:02:31PM +0100, Raffaella Traniello wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 19:39 +0100, Christian Thaeter wrote:
> > > What about one quick and dirty solution: Just embed the Trac activity
> > > feed [1] using some standard RSS widget [2] on the front page? I know
> > > this is not very cool, but will at least show that something is going on.
> > 
> > As you see this rss is very technical and detailed, 99.99% of all people
> > will not know whats the trac stuff is talking about.
> 
> 99.99% of people glancing at lumiera.org first want to know if the
> project is still alive, secondarily when a working program is due.
> The RSS contains the most important information: the date of the Trac
> activity. This is the project heartbeat. 
> 
> I would welcome any approach that sets a basic automatic feature and
> leaves space for more advanced and manual solutions.
> 
> The RSS feed is cheap and harmless. It can be our safety net when we are
> too busy with our jobs and can't give our lovely lumiera.org all the
> care it needs.
> 
> > We agreed some time ago on doing at least quartery 'News' updates
> > (additionally to any other Announcement). That is someone collects whats
> > going on, possibly asks the developers and writes a few lines about that
> > and puts it online. Initially raffa proposed to do the job
> 
> I also proposed to link those quarterly news to fixed times, like the
> German seasons, so to have a kind of a deadline: it's easier to remember
> and organize.
> For instance, the next quarterly news are due on 21 Dec. Are you ready
> for the winter news?

This is something I'd l;ike to do, but I don't know if I have time.  I 
certainly don't this week, and it'll take a fair effort to get my head 
into the right space.  Lumiera isn't that easy a project to jump into 
without substantial, time-consuming effort, though I've been following 
the mailing list from time to time.

> 
> > Is there anyone else wants to take this job? I think thats really not
> > much to do.

Not if one is up-to-date with the project.  Anyway, I doubt I'll have 
time this month.

> 
> I'd be very happy if someone could take this winter task.
> But I'm not going to leave it undone.

If there's a way I can review newsletter drafts, I might be able to 
comment on them, complain about unclarity, or edit them for language.  
That might be a useful way to enter without a major effort.  This is 
something I *might* be able to do this month.

Same for any available documentation.

-- hendrik

> 
> 
> Ciao!
> Raffaella
> 
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