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

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimarts, 14 d'octubre de 2014, a les 22:57:38, Valorie Zimmerman va 
escriure:
> 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

OK, no strong opinon on the shuffling on stuff, i do totally agree that UserBase 
and TechBase are "geeky" names that should go away at least in the menus of 
kde.org and should be "User Wiki" and "Tech Wiki" or similar.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> 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
> 
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