Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Call for Volunteers: Redesign OpenACS.org inside and out

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38: Re: Call for Volunteers: Redesign OpenACS.org inside and out (response to 1)
Posted by Nick Carroll on 12/14/05 01:09 PM
The Ruby on Rails crew have a new website at http://rubyonrails.org/.

Take note that they don't have a forum for their community. They just have a blog and a wiki, and some info about their IRC channel. Very simple, clean, and organised.

They don't have any news items or latest postings on their front page. Just some information about their project and the community. Makes you wonder whether you really need to have news items and latest forum postings on the front page. Especially since the developers would be subscribed to their weblogs RSS feed, and curious new comers would just follow the link to the blog.

So really the rails website is just a place card for new comers to check out the project. Their developers would either be hanging out in their IRC channel or subscribed to the blog's RSS feed.

Should we adopt this design and organisation as well?

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39: Re: Re: Call for Volunteers: Redesign OpenACS.org inside and out (response to 38)
Posted by Guan Yang on 12/14/05 01:49 PM
The Rails project also has a very active mailing list.
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40: Re: Re: Call for Volunteers: Redesign OpenACS.org inside and out (response to 38)
Posted by Simon at TCB on 12/16/05 11:05 AM
Sorry Nick, gotta say that the Ruby site is miles away for what I'd hope for in a site. IMO it lack depth, breadth, impact, imagination and so on..

A site like that looks like its had about a weeks thought/work on it. If thats all we're aiming at we may as well leave things as they are.

Either raise the bar, or head to the bar ;)