Re: Infrastructure "Doing" (was: Re: [libreoffice-website] Website Projectplan)

Hi Charles, all!

I take the chance to bring in some propsals, but first ...

Am Dienstag, den 01.02.2011, 09:32 +0100 schrieb Charles-H. Schulz:
> Hello Christoph,
>
>
> Le Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:58:57 +0100,
> Christoph Noack <christoph@dogmatux.com> a écrit :
> > Am Montag, den 31.01.2011, 11:02 +0100 schrieb Charles-H. Schulz:
> > > Le Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:02:34 +0930,
> > > Michael Wheatland <michael@wheatland.com.au> a écrit :
> > > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Charles-H. Schulz
> > > > <charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > > Unless I'm misstaken we have no actual plans to redesign the
> > > > > website in any substantial way for at least 6 months...
> > > >
> > > > There is always room for improvement, and as we seem to have the
> > > > vibrancy and resources I would love to see the website team step
> > > > up and do what they do best. [...]
[...]
> > But a proposal nevertheless: why not picking one or two of those
> > requests ...
[...]

> I am sorry Christoph but as much as I was in agreement with you for
> most most of the thread, I understand your proposal as going back to a
> situation where we have to organize and answer to ideas always leading
> to a constant redesign of the website (did I understand that
> correctly?), and here I would have to strongly disagree. I don't think
> that "launching" people on specific projects that have one chance over
> 10 or over 50 to be even considered is the right thing to do after the
> difficulties we had had these past months, and it would be wiser to
> have people participate in UX/Design, QA, etc. or clarify that they're
> welcome to contribute to the website, but keeping in mind we don't
> currectly consider make-overs of the website.

Good points, since it helps me to clarify some things. So basically, I
welcome incremental improvements - not a total makeover of the website. 

What I had in mind was ...

> > > > I am not sure who you are referring to by 'we', but these plans
> > > > were discussed at length on the recent conference call, and the
> > > > team has people who are willing to get on board and help out
> > > > 'now'.
> >
> > If this is also true for other topics, there is plenty of stuff that
> > can bring much value to the community!

... that I heard several requests that still seem to be unanswered - or
maybe I'm not aware of.

Example QA: The team asked for test installations for managing test
cases, e.g. LimeSurvey or something like Mozilla Litmus. Concerning the
former, some of the Brazil people seemed to be involved - but I don't
know the status.

Example SC: There has been the question whether we should pay for Doodle
to arrange some of the calls. In my opinion, it would have been nice to
check the open-source alternatives ("Make Meeting for Drupal"?). Andreas
had also some ideas ...

Example SC/Community: We'll get more and more requests for polls and
decisions (upcoming foundation structures), so a good survey tool will
help - also for Marketing. Again, LimeSurvey would be helpful for that.

Example Design Team: Not officially stated, but I thought about trying
the Image Annotator ... see:
http://jefvanschendel.nl/ImageAnnotation/index.php?i=Freemedia_Mailer_Type_A_Up

I'm sure there is much more we can do ... and I think it would be
beneficial to start with something which is (not yet) "mission
critical" ;-)

Charles, does this sound better?

Cheers,
Christoph


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