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

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> 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

Also, looks like I forgot the Community wiki in the Community section.

I wish there was a good place to use the wiki landing page; it is
totally awesome. Maybe under Documentation. ( https://wiki.kde.org/ )

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