Areas of Interest Page

[Allen Winter]

On Thursday 12 June 2008 18:02:11 David Faure wrote:
> 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 every year IMHO, and duplicate outdated information on multiple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.
>
You're right.

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

What kind of info would you like to see in such a matrix?