Review of the Projects Page

[Jared Norris]

On 19 May 2010 23:39, Mitch Towner <mitch.towner.ubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 19/05/10 15:56, bwright wrote:
>> As we move towards restructuring our Loco and creating a more active
>> community I thought we could take at least some time to reconsider the
>> current projects page for our team see (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/
>> AustralianTeam/Projects). At the moment the page seems rather static
>> and quite generic listings of Ubuntu in schools with a very broad aim
>> etc. In my opinion we need to get more content flowing through the
>> page and have active projects at the top of the list with links to
>> other articles or other pages where we have very detailed descriptions
>> and planning. Two examples might be the Bug Jam and the Free Software
>> Day both of which are getting a lot of attention by members of the
>> community "right now" so those should be the first two links discussed
>> on that page and should then link to other pages with more detailed
>> information. As for the rest of the content on the page it should
>> probably be deleted or at least reformatted since it doesn't seem to
>> reflect what the community is actually doing ( though they certainly
>> look like things we are aiming towards). Anyway these are just some
>> suggestions please tell me what you think. I just believe we need more
>> content running through the page with links to projects we are
>> actually working on so community members can easily find out what is
>> going on and how they can help out within the loco. Cheers.
>>
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> I agree with the idea of updating the Projects page. I plan to work on
> creating a "BugJam" wiki page with info for Ubuntu-AU BugJams that can
> be linked to from the Projects page.
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> I believe we need some feedback on the layout of this page, so I will
> wait until we discuss this idea further before I modify the Projects page.
>
> Does anyone else have any thoughts or ideas on what we should do to
> "revamp" the Projects wiki page?
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Good morning/afternoon/evening Ubuntu-AU'ers,

I have a quick suggestion on the layout of the pages based upon
recently going through and trying to clean up the wiki. To make it
easier to keep up to date without having to go through and keep this
up to date at a later date I think the actual project page should
really just be a list of links to subpages. That way when a project
gets completed and then no longer relevant it is easier to just move
the subpage to the /archives and remove the link of the projects page.
I feel this method will make it much easier to keep things looking
"up-to-date" without having to go and rewrite large amounts of texts
on a page each time a project gets completed.

This is just a suggestion obviously but if you can think of something
better by all means. This method will just require someone (if I get
time I'll have a crack at it) rewriting the page into headings and
links to current projects.

Regards,

Jared Norris