[Ktechlab-devel] The thoughts of a quiet observer

[Jonathan-David SCHRODER]

Hi
I was going to say some of the things said here about the websites.
In short :
- compared to the TTD webpage, there's no apparent news/blog category and it
would be nice to have one. Should we setup a wordpress thing or another CMS
and integrate back the website contents into wordpress pages?
- some sections on the webpage are empty
- it would be nice to have the wiki & webpage well integrated together as
you Drew Noakes have started proposing.
- there could be some pages where people say that they use KTechLab
("Success stories" and just normal "I'm using it" comments), for doing what
and in which country. So this would show that : the program is in use and
useful and that people are interested in it. There's some text related this
idea here : http://www.ktechlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=Index:Misc . But it
would be nice to have much more details on how ktechlab is used.
- the forum idea would be nice for people wanting to fiddling something in
electronics and having help with : electronics question & software use
questions. On artistic forums, there's a use to Work in Progress(WIP)
threads where people show their work step by step and ask for critics, there
could be a same thing in ktechlab forums(I'm argumenting on this forum idea
Jason Lucas said) for work in progress circuits. When people have done some
circuits, people in the admin team could push them into posting something on
http://www.ktechlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=Index:Circuits
- there's a bugtracker on the sourceforge page with bugs that are not solved
yet. It would be nice to have a link to this tracker from the website.

jonathan schroder


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Drew Noakes <drewnoakes at yahoo.com.au>
wrote:

>  Firstly, as a quiet observer of this list I'd like to share my concern
> for the future of this project in the hope of increasing the apparent size
> of the list's readership.  I don't know how many people are on this list,
> but I suspect there are quite a few others in the same situation as me.
>
> OSS is inherently globally distributed which offers a fantastic opportunity
> for talented people with similar interests to collaborate.  At the same time
> it could be very beneficial for the project if collaborators were actually
> able to meet in person.  We are social animals and in my professional
> experience with off-shore offices and outsourcing, the productivity of the
> distributed working relationship is greatly improved once the people involve
> meet face-to-face.  Depending upon where contributors are located, regional
> meet ups might be possible.  Perhaps we could enhance the wiki area for
> this...
>
> http://www.ktechlab.org/wiki/index/php?title=KTechLab#Developers
>
>
the correct url is :
http://www.ktechlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=KTechLab#Developers (one slash
replaced by a dot)

>  Anyway, to the real purpose of this email.
>
> I visited ktechlab.org just now and noticed that the "Get Involved" and
> "About" links point to pages with the text: TODO
>
> http://www.ktechlab.org/about.htm
> http://www.ktechlab.org/involved.htm
>
> Holding pages like these make the project look immature and abandoned which
> is not the image I'd like to see accompany such a promising project,
> especially at such a critical time.
>
> Let's make the "About" page point to: http://www.ktechlab.org/<http://www.ktechlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=KTechLab>
> wiki/index.php?title=KTechLab
>
> For the "Get Involved!" page I created a new wiki page:
> <http://www.ktechlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=Get_Involved>
> http://www.ktechlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=Get_Involve<http://www.ktechlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=Get_Involved>d
> ...please review this page and add any additions/modifications as you see
> fit.  I placed a slightly-out-of-place link to it on the front page.
>
> Let's do everything we can to encourage potential new contributors to join
> this project.
>
> Long Live KTechLab!
>
> Drew
>
> *London, UK*
>
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