[Web Comm] Focus

[Arnulf Christl]

Jason Birch wrote:
> This is what I had in mind for the project info pages:
>  
> https://www.osgeo.org/content/projects/mapbender.html <https://www.osgeo.org/content/projects/mapbender.html> 
>  
> Feedback?  (other than bawling me out for using <font> tags... )

This is great.

@Gary: You see - this is what a project can get out of OSGeo. It (the 
project) does not have to hack their own HTML with static <font> tags 
but a professional team takes care of it. (Jason, i say this only 
because I am such a very funny person...)

> I'll get the other flyers/fliers/flowers up sometime over the weekend, taking into account any feedback.  As we develop the other pages, we'll interlink them (in a "Works with..." section, a "Case Studies section", etc...)
>  
> I'd really like to see something done about the domains and look/feel.  Can we either:
>  
>  - Not require that projects have a presence under the osgeo.org domain structure or
>  
>  - Figure out how to delegate these subdomains to the individual projects so they can continue with their current infrastructure?
>  
> A lot of these projects have strong and distinctive web presences in place; I feel that requiring them to toe the line is unreasonable.  OSGeo is here to promote these projects, not subjugate them. ;)
>  
> Jason

Are you suggesting to drop the mapbender.osgeo.org and only keep 
www.mapbender.org ("mapbender" always just as an example) and this new 
info page?

Regards, Arnulf.

> ________________________________
> 
> From: Jason Birch [mailto:Jason.Birch at nanaimo.ca]
> Sent: Tue 2006-06-27 11:02 AM
> To: dev at webcommittee.osgeo.org
> Subject: [Web Comm] Focus
> 
> 
> 
> All,
> 
> Our main priority right now should be to change the focus of the main
> page from news-based to use-based, implementing some of the ideas on the
> Wiki site focus page.
> 
> In order to do this, we'll first need to add content that can be linked
> to.  My initial thought was to duplicate the content from the Where
> flyers
> https://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folde
> rID=54&expandFolder=54&folderID=0
> as individual project pages under
> https://www.osgeo.org/source/browse/www/www/content/projects/
> 
> I also would like to take the "developer spotlight" pages that Daniel
> was working on and move them from the News project into the main site
> under
> https://www.osgeo.org/source/browse/www/www/content/people/
> 
> To build some case studies, we'll need to draft an appeal to the main
> list asking for people/organisations that are successfully using OSGeo
> project-software in their processes.  This will help both to promote
> OSGeo and improve the visibility of their organisations.
> 
> The projects, community spotlights, and case studies should all be
> interlinked to allow users to obtain the most value no matter which page
> they enter the site from. 
> 
> As well, things like the list of mailing lists and a list of
> international/regional user groups should be linked from both the main
> page and most of the user-targeted pages.
> 
> Once we start to get some of this content up, I would like to reorganise
> the main page to allow new users to quickly find what they're looking
> for.
> 
> Sector
>  - Government
>  - Education
>  - Business
>  - ... ?
> 
> User Type
>  - Manager
>  - User
>  - Developer
>  - ... ?
> 
> Projects
>  - direct links to our internal project pages, each of which lists the
> official project page, links to mailing lists, etc.
> 
> News
>  - Snippets of major OSGeo and project news.  I'd like to use the
> news.osgeo.org project for general OSGeo and project news, and then
> place major news items on the main WWW page with the Announcements
> feature, pointing to the news project announcements.
> 
> If you want to start work on any of this, please let the list know.
> Before we get too far, my first task is to clean out some old pre-osgeo
> folders that are hanging around in the CVS.
> 
> Jason
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