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

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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.
>>
>
I think balance is the key.


>
>>
> 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 must say that I disagree with this. We should be posting, at least some,
community stuff to encourage these things to continue. It's tough for people
to get involved and help out (referring to side projects and initiatives
here) without getting some sort of recognition from the main project.


>
>
> 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.


I really don't think this would be the case but maybe I'm wrong. A community
focused sub-site/sub-domain, at least IMHO, would promote community
involvement and give people a sense of participation that goes above and
beyond the forums and mailing lists.



IMO, FWIW etc...

Dennis

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