more fuel for the ia fire :)
- From: Paul Cooper <pgc ucecom com>
- To: gnome-web-list gnome org
- Subject: more fuel for the ia fire :)
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 01:12:04 -0500
I meant to do this ages ago but work has been getting of the way of
lately. Good news is that I appear to still have a job beyond the new year
(when my current contract runs out) so the pressure is off a little.
OK so clearly 5 IA proposals isn't enough, so I thought I'd add my meagre
effort. I've also attached a HTML version for steve to add to his
collection (if he would be so kind).
Fingers crossed, I should be able to make it to IRC on saturday to fight
my corner. See you then, and in the mean time, let the flames roll.
--------
A severe hack Tomas V. V. Cox' proposal - I thought I liked it best but
seem to have hacked it quite a lot ;-)
* About
* Intro & Screenshots
* News
* Events
* Contacts & Press
* Directory
* Future & Roadmap
* Foundation
* Charter
* Meeting Minutes
* Board Members
* Advisory Board
* Membership
* Links
* Advanced Search
* Software
* Latest Software
* Software Map
* Software Reviews
* Themes
* Documentation
* Quick Start
* FAQ
* Introductory Docs
* Gnome Users Guide
* Introduction to Gnome
* Nautilus User Manual
* The Gnome Panel
* All other docs ;-)
* Contribute
* Getting Involved
* News
* dot.plan
* Devel Docs
* Architecture
* Tutorials
* Whitepapers
* API Reference
* Programming Guides
* Standards
* FAQs
* Online Books
* Tools
* Bug report system
* CVS
* Bonsai
* LXR
* External Resources
* Projects
* Internationalization
* UI Hitsquad
* Sound
* Documentation
* Webhackers
* Orphan Projects
* Related Projects
* Developers
* List of Contributors with link to homepages
* Hall of Fame
* Developer of the week
* Developer Interviews
* Support
* Get/Bring Support
* IRC info
* Mailing lists
* News Groups
* Commercial Support
Notes: First off I shortened all the top level category names to one word.
Seems to me these will look best with Steve's design and IMHO is clearer -
hence the top bar would be;
About . Software . Documentation . Contribute . Support
About: Didn't change much here. Changed Search to Advanced Search because
the latest templates included a simple search box, so I thought we should
offer something more here ;-) Added News and Events here. News always
seems to me like it's the most important thing on the site (certainly it's
what I look for everyday) and maybe should be a top level link all of it's
own? So we could have;
News . About . Software . Documentation . Contribute . Support
Software: Rejigged things a little bit. Latest Software is like the list
on the current frontpage. The software map is the all new kick ass
software map. Software Reviews will die without regular content - this
should also be linked into the software map, i.e. a review is added as
part of the software map entry - this would then be the latest reviews?
Anyway I think this is 2.1 feature
Added themes and general eye candy in here - should themes go in the
software map under Desktop Environment?
Documentation: Introductory doc and all other docs are meant to be what
you see in the help tab in Nautilus. So the idea is Quick Start + FAQ +
Help tab. Maybe someone who understands Nautilus help, scrollkeeper, etc
could suggest how these things might be made to match up nicely.
Contribute: I was never convinced by the splitting of d.g.o into
contribute and development. I like the word contribute because I think it
might encourage more 'non-developer' involvement. However I have no idea
how well this translates.
Jeff's going to hate me for renaming it contribute (you can keep the d.g.o
url though!) but I did it on purpose because d.g.o is the hardest bit of
ia (because there so much damn i) and I wanted to encourage some argument
(I mean discussion ;-).
I didn't keep the way Tomas split contribute and d.g.o because I thought
if Project of the Week doesn't get maintained then Contribute is just
Projects - I never understood what the TODO list was (the todo list for
the whole of gnome!?!?) and why it wouldn't be getter in d.g.o.
I moved Architecture into Devel Docs because it seemed to me to be a doc
describing the architecture ;-)
The Developers sections (List, HOF, DOTW, Interviews) will be dead unless
it has regularly updated content. List of contributers taken from the
software map? A 2.1 feature I think.
Support: Cut out News and Events as they aren't support related.
Paul
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<html>
<head>
<title>The GNOME Project</title>
<link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<h2>Site Structure 0.0.0e -- Paul Cooper</h2>
<p>A severe hack Tomas V. V. Cox' proposal - I thought I liked it best
but seem to have hacked it quite a lot ;-)</p>
<ul>
<li><b>About</b></li>
<ul>
<li>Intro & Screenshots</li>
<li>News</li>
<li>Events</li>
<li>Contacts & Press</li>
<ul>
<li>Directory</li>
</ul>
<li>Future & Roadmap</li>
<li>Foundation</li>
<ul>
<li>Charter</li>
<li>Meeting Minutes</li>
<li>Board Members</li>
<li>Advisory Board</li>
<li>Membership</li>
</ul>
<li>Links</li>
<li>Advanced Search</li>
</ul>
<li><b>Software</b></li>
<ul>
<li>Latest Software</li>
<li>Software Map</li>
<li>Software Reviews</li>
<li>Themes</li>
</ul>
<li><b>Documentation</b></li>
<ul>
<li>Quick Start</li>
<li>FAQ</li>
<li>Introductory Docs</li>
<ul>
<li>Gnome Users Guide</li>
<li>Introduction to Gnome</li>
<li>Nautilus User Manual</li>
<li>The Gnome Panel</li>
</ul>
<li>All other docs ;-)</li>
</ul>
<li><b>Contribute</b></li>
<ul>
<li>Getting Involved</li>
<li>News</li>
<li>dot.plan</li>
<li>Devel Docs</li>
<ul>
<li>Architecture</li>
<li>Tutorials</li>
<li>Whitepapers</li>
<li>API Reference</li>
<li>Programming Guides</li>
<li>Standards</li>
<li>FAQs</li>
<li>Online Books</li>
</ul>
<li>Tools</li>
<ul>
<li>Bug report system</li>
<li>CVS</li>
<li>Bonsai</li>
<li>LXR</li>
</ul>
<li>External Resources</li>
<li>Projects</li>
<ul>
<li>Internationalization</li>
<li>UI Hitsquad</li>
<li>Sound</li>
<li>Documentation</li>
<li>Webhackers</li>
<li>Orphan Projects</li>
<li>Related Projects</li>
</ul>
<li>Developers</li>
<ul>
<li>List of Contributors with link to homepages</li>
<li>Hall of Fame</li>
<li>Developer of the week</li>
<li>Developer Interviews</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><b>Support</b></li>
<ul>
<li>Get/Bring Support</li>
<li>IRC info</li>
<li>Mailing lists</li>
<li>News Groups</li>
<li>Commercial Support</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p><b>Notes:</b> First off I shortened all the top level category
names to one word. Seems to me these will look best with Steve's
design and IMHO is clearer - hence the top bar would be;</p>
<p><b> About . Software . Documentation . Contribute . Support </b></p>
<p><b>About:</b> Didn't change much here. Changed Search to Advanced Search
because the latest templates included a simple search box, so I
thought we should offer something more here ;-) Added News and Events
here. News always seems to me like it's the most important thing on
the site (certainly it's what I look for everyday) and maybe should be
a top level link all of it's own? So we could have;</p>
<p><b> News . About . Software . Documentation . Contribute . Support </b></p>
<p><b>Software:</b> Rejigged things a little bit. Latest Software is
like the list on the current frontpage. The software map is the all
new kick ass software map. Software Reviews will die without regular
content - this should also be linked into the software map, i.e. a
review is added as part of the software map entry - this would then be
the latest reviews? Anyway I think this is 2.1 feature </p>
<p>Added themes and general eye candy in here - should themes go in
the software map under Desktop Environment?
<p><b>Documentation:</b> Introductory doc and all other docs are meant
to be what you see in the help tab in Nautilus. So the idea is Quick
Start + FAQ + Help tab. Maybe someone who understands Nautilus help,
scrollkeeper, etc could suggest how these things might be made to
match up nicely. </p>
<p><b>Contribute:</b> I was never convinced by the splitting of d.g.o
into contribute and development. I like the word contribute because I
think it might encourage more 'non-developer' involvement. However I
have no idea how well this translates. </p>
<p>Jeff's going to hate me for renaming it contribute (you can keep
the d.g.o url though!) but I did it on purpose because d.g.o is the
hardest bit of ia (because there so much damn i) and I wanted to
encourage some argument (I mean discussion ;-). </p>
<p>I didn't keep the way Tomas split contribute and d.g.o because I
thought if Project of the Week doesn't get maintained then Contribute
is just Projects - I never understood what the TODO list was (the
todo list for the whole of gnome!?!?) and why it wouldn't be getter in
d.g.o.</p>
<p>I moved Architecture into Devel Docs because it seemed to me to be
a doc describing the architecture ;-) </p>
<p>The Developers sections (List, HOF, DOTW, Interviews) will be dead
unless it has regularly updated content. List of contributers taken
from the software map? A 2.1 feature I think.</p>
<p><b>Support:</b> Cut out News and Events as they aren't support
related.
</body>
</html>
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