Documentation BoF/workshop at Akademy; recommendations for mainsite menu revamp

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> El Dilluns, 13 d'octubre de 2014, a les 21:59:30, Valorie Zimmerman va
> escriure:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> During the documentation workshop at Akademy, our speaker & discussion
>> facilitator looked at our front page, www.kde.org, to see how easy it
>> was for various classes of people to figure out how to get information
>> or get involved with KDE. We got as far as the top-level menues, and
>> found a bit of a mess. Because our internet connections were so poor,
>> we ended up emailing text files to one another, then meeting up for
>> lunch and using the restaurant connectivity. :-)
>>
>> I think the mainsite could do with a remake, however that will take
>> time. Fixing the top-level menus and/or the pages pointed to from
>> there is a much smaller task, which IMO should be done now. We should
>> make our site helpful to press who need information, new people who
>> are looking for help, or want to help out in various ways.
>>
>> Here is what Mikey and I came up with:
>
> Where do this current items end up?
>
> Community
>    Donate
>    Get Involved
>    Join The Game
>    Thanks
>
> Cheers,
>   Albert

Oops, looks like my paste got cut off. And actually, I love that
Community is first, and I think it should stay first, since we are a
community who makes software.

=Community=
Get Involved (title of page still needs fixing)
Donate
Whatever we call JtG, Sustaining Member or whatever
Thanks

Valorie


>> KDE website
>>
>> Toolbar
>>
>> =News=
>> - Announcements > Release Announcements
>> - Events (create page with upcoming events that links to the community
>> wiki events section, and merge past events from History page to the
>> second half of the page)
>> - Press Information (merge important content from Press Page and Press
>> Contact) - Security Advisories (verify with sysadmins first)
>>
>> =Our Products/Software=
>> - Plasma
>> -- Desktop
>> -- Notebook
>> -- Active (new page)
>> - Applications
>> -- Development
>> -- Education
>> -- Games
>> -- Graphics
>> -- Internet
>> -- Multimedia
>> -- Office
>> -- System
>> -- Utilities
>>
>> ** note - IMO there should be a link to our Frameworks docs as well
>>
>> =Help=
>> - Use KDE
>> -- Documentation
>> -- UserBase Wiki
>> - Develop KDE
>> -- TechBase Wiki (consider renaming to Developer Wiki)
>> -- API Reference
>> - Report a Bug
>> - Forums
>> - Mailing Lists (modify to include help lists, and please include
>> KDE-Community)
>>
>> =About KDE=
>> - Manifesto
>> - Code of Conduct
>> - Legal
>> -- KDE e.V.
>> -- KDE Free Qt Foundation
>> - History (clean up release information and keep org timeline)
>> -- Awards
>>
>> =Community=
>>
>> I'm willing to help with content re-write; just tell me what you need.
>>
>> I'll send another email later with some of the larger questions we raised.
>>
>> Valorie