Re: Task Analysis (press and search sections)

["Tomas V.V.Cox" <cox idecnet com>]

Shawn T Amundson wrote:
> 
>The first time I saw 
>"Contact and press" I thought that section was *for* the
>press.  (Which left a bad image of GNOME in my mind.)

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PRESS
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I now write in the Linux section for a spanish magazine, and I can say
you that mass media are extremly important and have a direct impact in
the number of users of Gnome software (for ex: there are 500.000 persons
who reads "my" magazine per month).
        I think that having a powerful press section is a must. But be
careful, the section should be active mantained. For example if I want
to write news about Gnome and I visit the actual press section:
http://www.gnome.org/pressreleases.html
I could think that there is nothing new in the Gnome Proyect.
        There is no need to have all press resources in the navigation
bar. It is enought to have a "press room" link (perhaps in the General
Section) with all press resources: press releases (with search engine),
press mailling list, speaking about gnome (renamed as press contacts),
in the press (articles in others sites about gnome) and others like
press materials, etc. The press publish and search could be a new
category in news.gnome.org.

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SEARCH
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In the actual Gnome website, it's dificult to find software, it's
dificult to find doc and it's imposible to search by keywords. We need a
search section, perhaps powered by and indexer like udmsearch (the best
IMHO) or ht:/dig, wich can do:

keyword: ________
section: (doc, devel, project, software, news, press, foundation, bugs,
mailling lists, all)
bolean operators options

For example we could link the main search engine with the specific ones
(bugs and news have they own search engine), create a software engine
and for the rest sections use the indexer, but all should be
group inside the main search section. 
Here we can also have people search, contact search, software map,
everithing people need to find they want.

Of course I can work in this two areas if you find it useful.

Regards,

Tomas V.V.Cox