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

[Lydia Pintscher]

Thanks for pushing this, Valorie!
More comments inline.

On Oct 14, 2014 6:59 AM, "Valorie Zimmerman" <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> 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:
>
> 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)

Please have a look at events.kde.org. The upcoming events there are created
from a proper calendar file. This should get more exposure and be
integrated better.

> - 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

Yes! Or rather a page "selling" it and linking to documentation. I assume
that is behind the other pages too?

> =Help=
> - Use KDE
> -- Documentation
> -- UserBase Wiki
> - Develop KDE
> -- TechBase Wiki (consider renaming to Developer Wiki)

I think we should not give the impression that this is just for developers.
I like Albert's suggestion.

> -- API Reference
> - Report a Bug

Should probably go after forum and mailing list. Reporting a big should be
a last step :)

> - 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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