[Ocs] Wiki-style community page

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 27.03.2012, at 07:05, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have been pondering a proposal for a wiki-style community site for
> OCS. The current website [1] is a bit static, and not accessible by
> the community as easily as a wiki page. It would be great to either
> set up a wiki on the existing site for alterings, or request an
> ocs.freekdesktop.org site as for instance the telepathy project
> progressed with their site [2]. That is their main page starting with
> the indtroduction, architectural overview, reference manuals,
> debugging, source code, developer notes and all those things. This
> page is redirected automatically in their case to the relevant wiki
> page: http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki. There is also a
> ghns.freedesktop.org just for another reference.
> 
> I am personally happy with either of those solutions or even with a
> third idea, but the point is that it would be nice to have an
> accessible community page. The social desktop site seems to be a bit
> outdated, and I would give a helping hand for updatings as a starting
> point. In general, it would be nice to have this type of workflow in
> the future to organize the website for this project in my opinion. Our
> specification and mailing list are also currently hosted on the
> freedesktop site. I have just double checked since some people
> mentioned that the access was a bit hard to get for the freedesktop
> pages previously, but it now seems fine to me. I was able to register
> and click on the "Edit" action for the telepathy page instantly. If we
> stick with this way, I am glad to help with the formal details, like
> opening a bugreport against the freedesktop product and so forth.
> 
> What are your thoughs ? Please do share them. :)

I think it´s a good idea. It would be great if you could move this forward :-)

Cheers
Frank