On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 03:39 -0500, Patrick Barnes wrote: > I have been looking over the many Fedora-related sites and gathering > information about what is out there and how it is organized. I have > been trying to determine what really needs improvement and how that > improvement can be achieved. I had some thoughts relating to > http://fedoraproject.org and posted them to fedora-docs-list, and it was > suggested that I send them here (fedora-marketing-list) instead. I have > also sent this message to Seth Vidal. Below is an excerpt from my > original post: > > I'm not sure how many people actually use this base URL, but it needs > some loving. > > One idea that I had is that this URL could redirect to > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ and that the Wiki's front page could > feature all of the existing links, with a brief description. This would > allow easier maintenance, and would automagically make the page more > useful. > > With Red Hat announcing the creation of The Fedora Foundation, it seems > like Fedora's information will eventually move away from > fedora.redhat.com to its own domain. I don't know if this would be > fedoraproject.org or something entirely different. If the migration is > to fedoraproject.org, then my above suggestion would not create any > problems. Simply removing the redirect and dropping content similar to > fedora.redhat.com would be acceptable. The Wiki and the rest of the > fedoraproject.org hierarchy would not conflict with the content > currently at fedora.redhat.com, and links could be added to whatever > main page is at the base URL to direct people to the current > fedoraproject.org content. If anyone needs any clarification on my > thinking, drop me a line. Here's what I think: I agree with you about the fedoraproject.org page needing to be more useful. Put together a prototype for the front page. I think doing it all exclusively in the wiki will result in a fairly ugly webpage but I'm open to give it a try. Set yourself up a wiki account, I'll give you privs to change a page and you make a 'newfrontpage' page and we'll work from there to see if it works. It's a good place to start and if it all looks well I'll do the leg work to turn it into the main page. sound cool? -sv
