On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:12:23 -0400 "Alain Forget" <aforget@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: ciphershed-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ciphershed- > >bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen R Guglielmo > >Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 11:53 > >To: ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >Subject: [ciphershed] Re: Website & publicity > > > >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. For the howto info, there is the howto page. I think we could merge authors and about, but I like the idea of a seperate Authors page as a token of transparence. > > 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 > > Agree, aliases should be visible on the wiki. Also, I am Niklas & compul. ;) -- Niklas At the time of writing, no warrants have ever been served to me, Niklas Lemcke, nor am I under any personal legal compulsion concerning the CipherShed project. I do not know of any searches or seizures of my assets.
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