[maemo-community] Minutes of web design meeting, 13/1/2009

[From: Ryan Abel]

On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:53 AM, Quim Gil wrote:

> ext Dave Neary wrote:
>
>> why the forum would get a different treatment from say mailing
>> lists, IRC, Bugzilla, or any of the other user forums we have.
>
> Because internettablettalk.com has proven to be a very good entry  
> point
> to a community.

. . . and because asking that community to accept coming under the  
maemo.org banner then relegating them to a back room is a dick move. :D

>> It seems
>> to me like having the user forum on a "Get help" support page, and on
>> the "Get involved" community page, is sufficient exposure.
>
> Not sufficient for the hundreds of people checking ITt once a day or  
> more.
>
> It's not "the user forum". Is the place where the community basically
> discuss about all kinds of topics. ITt registers in 1h more activity
> than the whole maemo.org in a day (so to say).

+1

>> Also, I'll ask the question here while I'm at it: should  
>> Documentation
>> get a top-menu billing on the front page?
>
> Not in my opinion, having a visible place for Developers is enough.



On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:30 AM, Dave Neary wrote:

> One of wazd's complaints in the meeting was that there's no room to
> extend the top-level menus if it's needed, and if we now want to add
> "User forum" or "Forum" to the front page, either as an element of the
> page or as a top-level menu item

That would be "Talk".

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Ryan Abel
Maemo Community Council chair