[ciphershed] Re: Website & publicity
- From: "Alain Forget" <aforget@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:12:23 -0400
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>Subject: [ciphershed] Re: Website & publicity
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>On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Alain Forget <aforget@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Some other suggestions:
>> * About: I really like the direction this page is taking! Unfortunately, it's
>order in the header links is kind of buried. Could we put it as either the
>left-
>most (if we get rid of the Home link), second-left most, or right-most link?
>> * Authors: This entire page should be merged into the About page, under a
>heading like, "About Us", "About Our Group", "Organisation", or merged into
>the "About the CipherShed Project" heading.
>> * Now that everyone's monikers have been removed from the front
>About/Authors page, and there's no similar list on the wiki/dev pages, there is
>now no easy, clear, direct mapping between moniker and real names. This is a
>big problem. My best suggestion for now is to have an "About" page on the
>wiki/dev pages, where we have a mapping of monikers to real names. This
>way, end-users don't need to worry about weird names, and new
>contributors will have an easy who's who list.
>> * Wiki: I'm also very happy with the technical/dev direction this is taking.
>However, for better or worse, the "Interact" page no longer seems to exist.
>Perhaps it should simply mirror (or point to) the About page on the front site?
>
>The idea I had in my head was to include screenshots and some more
>detailed information on the "About" page. I added some text describing
>what CipherShed can do, but I wanted to expand just a bit so people
>have a good idea.
I fully support this great idea, but it seems to be leaning closer to the
contents of a "How To" page, which I do think will be very beneficial (to show
people how it works before they commit to downloading and using it). But I feel
pretty strongly that the About page should just be a summary of the product,
project, and people. That's what most About pages I've seen tend to stick to,
and I'm not sure we should deviate much from that convention.
>I think if we merge more information on that page (the Authors and
>About Project), it might get a bit crowded (hence the separate pages
>for now). If we establish a PMC/Security Team, we would want to name
>those people specifically too (on the Authors page?), which would take
>up even more room.
Yes it would, but that's the kind of thing this page should be About, pun
intended. :-P There may also be a better way to organise that information so it
takes up less (vertical) space.
>As for the Wiki, I was hoping to get the "Interact" tab removed, as
>it's redundant to duplicate the same information twice.
Agreed, but *somewhere*, probably in the dev space, there absolutely needs to
be an easy-to-find list/table (hopefully sortable by both proper name and
alias) of everyone's (or at least the main contributors) names and alias, so
that it's easy to look up. An example of why this is necessary is that, when
doing the voting, I wanted to remind myself who compul was, but alas, I could
not find a mapping. I *think* compul is Niklas, but there really needs to be a
very easy/quick way to look this up. If some of us can't keep this straight,
then this will definitely be a problem going forward, especially if we're about
to get a small army of contributors (a subset of which will hopefully get as
on-board as we have, and we'll need to have an easy way to keep all these names
straight).
Alain
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