Areas of Interest Page

[David Faure]

On Thursday 12 June 2008, Allen Winter wrote:
> On Thursday 12 June 2008 14:51:10 David Faure wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 June 2008, Allen Winter wrote:
> > > Howdy,
> > >
> > > I started a new "Areas of Interest Page" on TechBase [1]
> > >
> > > The idea is to help direct new contributors to appropriate
> > > sub-communities within our huge meta-project.
> > >
> > > I thought about arranging it by large topics ("Code Development",
> > > "Artwork", "Documentation"....) and within those topics, have a matrix of
> > > the form: if you are interested in the following area => join mailing
> > > list X, talk to fred at kde.org, see this webpage, etc.
> >
> > Sounds good, but I would suggest double-checking the existing page to
> > either replace them or grab text from them :)
> >
> > http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDE+Quality+Team
> > http://www.kde.org/getinvolved/
> > http://www.kde.org/support/
> >
> > OK for development they don't have the per-subproject matrix you suggest,
> > but for the rest they do cover quite a lot of sub-communities I think :)
> >
> > I would suggest covering only coding on techbase and pointing to the URLs
> > above for the other activities, no need to reinvent the wheel every year
> > IMHO, and duplicate outdated information on multiple websites.
> 
> Exactly.
> My idea is a very high level view of the entire KDE "organism"
> with links to everything else.

Well that's exactly what http://www.kde.org/getinvolved/ aims at being too :)
This is why I'm saying, better improve that page if needed than create a page that duplicate its effort.

A coding-project-matrix sounds useful; a duplication of http://www.kde.org/getinvolved/ not really.

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