[D-community-discuss] Reactivating the project...

[Martin Albisetti]

On 8/28/07, Holger Levsen <debian at layer-acht.org> wrote:
> > The basics I think would be:
> >
> > - A maling list
> > - A forum (could be http://forums.debian.net/)
> > - An IRC channel
> > - A wiki for FAQ and Howtos[1]
> > - A bunch of people willing to get the ball rolling
>
> Except for the latter, we have all thse, though I agree thats it's too
> shattered. The problem I see is, we have too many lists, forums, irc channels
> and wikis.

Great, then out task is not organize them neatly so *most* new people
go through the ones we plan on focusing one  :D

> > [1] The current one is too hard for newbies to use since the creation
> > of new pages is a pain in the...
>
> Whats the exact problem with it?

Creating a new page is non-trivial. In most wikis, you just type in
the URL of what you want to create, and if it doesn't exist, you get
offered to create it.
I still forget every time what the procedure is to create a new page,
so I would guess most people wouldn't even try.


And I also think we should make special emphasis on making the page
look a bit less like debian.org, just so people don't get the
impression it was las edited in 1996, first impressions are critical
with newbies  :D



regards,


Martin