[Incubator] Fwd: pycsw incubation application

[Daniel Morissette]

Hi Angelos,

Thank you for adding this Community page and link, it looks perfect to me.

I agree with Eli that it's hard to decide which pages are important 
enough to make it to the nav. bar. when we design a website, but I think 
that for an open source project, a link to something like this community 
page is essential since the community is the blood of the project: 
without a community of users and developers the project is just stale 
source code. In the proprietary world there is a company pumping blood 
into a product through its marketing and R&D teams, in the open source 
world the community of users and devs *is* the blood.

Only my opinion of course, all points of view are much welcome...

Daniel


On 12-12-18 7:18 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> Hi Daniel and Eli,
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
> We have made some changes, adding a Community link on the first page.
>
> http://pycsw.org/
> http://pycsw.org/community.html
>
> Comments and questions are welcome.
>
> Best regards,
> Angelos
>
> On 12/14/2012 09:03 PM, Eli Adam wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Daniel Morissette
>> <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
>>> On 12-12-14 1:07 PM, Eli Adam wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if this is new since yesterday, but I did find,
>>>> http://pycsw.org/docs/support.html?highlight=mail and
>>>> http://pycsw.org/docs/development.html?highlight=mail neither of which
>>>> were very prominent to people making little effort to find it.  It is
>>>> hard to decide which are the most prominent items to put on the home
>>>> page.
>>>>
>>> That's probably not new, I just didn't find it, thank you for the
>>> pointer.
>>> Unfortunately the shortest path I can find to get to it is 3 levels down
>>> from the home page:
>>>
>>>    Home -> Docs -> 1.4.0 -> (scroll-down) -> Support
>>>
>>> Now that I know what to look for I guess I could have used the search
>>> box.
>>>
>>> This made me realize that this site structure seems to be inspired
>>> from the
>>> MapServer website which suffers from a similar problem (except that
>>> MapServer has a link to the "community activities" page in the intro
>>> text of
>>> the home page, but it's still fairly easy to miss).
>> Putting the 'most important' things in a 'most prominent' manner is
>> always very difficult, well at least deciding what those things are
>> can be difficult.
>>
>> It has been my opinion for many years that the best approach to the
>> MapServer documentation (which I think is great) is to use the search.
>>   The same is probably true for GeoMOOSE and pycsw (and other Sphinx
>> based) documentation.
>>
>> Eli
>>
>>>
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