[ciphershed] Re: Website & publicity
- From: "Alain Forget" <aforget@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:53:45 -0400
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ciphershed-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ciphershed-
>bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Niklas Lemcke - ???
>Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 13:27
>To: ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [ciphershed] Re: Website & publicity
>
>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.
There's the How-To page on the front-end site? I don't see it.
I'm fine with the "Authors" page to be separate, but I really don't like the
name "Authors". I think the concept of "authorship" is something that an entity
created completely on their own, which in this case, is not at all true;
CipherShed is based on TrueCrypt, which we didn't author. So I strongly feel we
need a term other than "Authors". Maybe just "People" or "Organisation"?
>>
>> 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. ;)
>
I must admit, these aliases keep resulting in Star Wars references in my head.
For example, Niklas Lemcke, otherwise known as Darth Compul, and Stephen
Guglielmo, but when he's developing, he is Darth Srg (pronunciation unknown,
but suspected to be "Surge" or "Sarge"). :-P
Alain
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