[haiku-web] Re: Question: What type of news is appropriate for front-page articles at haiku-os.org?

Urias McCullough wrote:

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Dennis d'Entremont

Would it be ok to post news of 3rd party software/applications on the site
or should we stick to news strictly related to Haiku events and OS specific
news? is the sort of things I would like to know.


This is a tricky one - there are plenty of 3rd party news sites
already that can pick this up and run with it... the Haiku website is
currently designed for news/articles about the Haiku project itself,
not necessarily everything Haiku related.
Keeping the front page for Haiku project-only news is a good thing IMO. As you said, there are enough news sites around eager to post everything they get their hands on. :) No need for additional competition. Although, I always thought a block with the last 5 headlines of a randomly cycled news site á là BeBits would be a good idea.
I'd limit the non-project news to only really BIG news, like "Gobe is back", "Java is here", "Steinberg's second try" etc. 


On the other hand, I know there has been some desire to bring the
community into the same area and try to combine it into a large
collaborative website. In this case, though I would almost suggest we
branch into a subdomain.. community.haiku-os.org or something, I
dunno.
What else do you have in mind for a community site? Pretty much the only occasionally visited forums (that I'm aware of) in Haiku-Space are on haiku-os.org and maybe Haikuware. I think there's enough capacity for a big increase in users. At the moment, as the GSoC interviews' lack of comments attest, the Haiku community is, sadly, vanishingly small. A "bigger" site might make this fact even more depressingly obvious. 

Do I sound bitter? Nah... just sayin'... :)

Regards,
Humdinger

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