Yay! Thanks for stepping up to the tasks, Marco and Nicolas. I think this plan makes sense, and it will definitely be worth the effort.
Nicolas, I think your plans sound good. It makes sense to also document the guidelines we come up with on the site. The docs/site_docs section seems appropriate for what you've just written up.
I also wrote some comments inline below:
On Feb 19, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Marco Donnarumma wrote:
This approach sounds good to me too. I can manage the exhibition page, Nicholas the community section (I guess we could collaborate on that, so to swap the needed page), and perhaps somebody else will come up.
It might be well worth the effort.
M
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Nicolas Montgermont nicolas_montgermont@yahoo.fr wrote:
Le 16/02/12 03:45, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
I think you should take on the structure of the /community/ section and try to make it clearer. You probably should check with other people who have contributed to that section, but don't let that hold you back. Yes it's a nice idea to have one people in charge of one section. I can handle the "community" section if it's a problem for nobody. My thoughts about it:
- It could be organized this way:
community
mailing list (page)
forums (page)
IRC (page)
conventions (folder)
meetings (folder)
member downloads (folder?)
the "software" and "exhibition" must get out of this section cause they are important topics, and have specific tabs in the menus.
I would like to see the whole /community/projects/software section just be permanently moved to /downloads/ and then put redirect rules for backward compatibility. I think IOhannes said he was OK with that too. Mostly, its a matter of someone figuring out how to do it.
- Pd art / Pd music / tracks / ... should go into the "exhibition"
Those are a bit different. The exhibition has one strict rule: no self-promotion. That is the most open yet curated form that we could come up with when we organized it. And I think it still makes sense. Then, there are other areas for self-promotion. As for that section, it doesn't seem to be used much, so it could go awy.
- patchings circles and local pd groups can be subsection of a bigger "meetings" category.
- member downloads should include pd patches / projects that doesn't take the shape of librairies.
I think the 'member downloads' section is obsolete. People can either post things on their own member pages, or they can add them to the /downloads/ section.
every sub section must have a formatted page, even if it's a folder
creating folder should be disabled for standard members to prevent having a complex menu on the left. but users may create page/content in the member download / meetings / convention topics.
One possibility is using Wiki Folders for the whole community section, then everything would be wiki pages, and there would not be more levels of folders. I think there is a way to add a Wiki Page to the left menu under the community section, but I don't know how off hand.
- users can edit all pages. except maybe the "community" one.
As for editing restrictions, I don't think we need any. There has really be very few bad edits that needed to be reverted, from what I've seen. I think it'll be a lot more work for everyone to manage the restrictions than just handle the very occasional bad edits. If it does become a problem, we can revisit that.
- How can I easily know who has worked in that section? when i hit "history" i only have a possiblity to reverse the last edit.
The History browser isn't so easy to follow, but you can go back thru all of the edits if its a wiki page. Other kinds of pages are different.
- I was wandering if there is an easy possiblity to get rid of the "Frontpage" title, i've tested to create a page for my profile and to display it instead of the folder listing:
http://puredata.info/Members/nixhol it's working well, what is the difference with, for example the community folder? http://puredata.info/community
About the FrontPage title, I've gotten into weird loops where plone would then somehow automatically recreate a page called FrontPage, while leaving the one called Home. So I just gave up and went with using the default names.
.hc
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