[Clipart] BETA OCAL Help Out page changes + navigation ideas

[Greg Bulmash]

Aaron Bowler wrote:
> Do you think "Volunteer" is a bit hash -- "Help Us" and a roll over of 
> "Would you like to help the site?" would be a little less formal. 

For the sake of usability, you don't want to mix the meanings of "Help".

Adrian's suggestion of "Get Involved" is a better substitute for
"Volunteer," though Oleg made a good point that "Volunteer" keeps a
consistency of one-word labels.  If you're going to get away from
one-word-labels, "Join The Team" would work as well.

> p.s Would it ever be possible to have a forum installed on the site? -- 
> phpbb is free -- and it keeps everything together, and would be much 
> easier for newbies like me. I've no experiance in using wikis and this 
> email service, i think i've missed a lot going into my junk mail :-(

My main experience with PHPBB has been as an attack vector through which
friends' servers/sites were hacked.  Adding PHPBB means someone has to
not only install it, but be in charge of keeping it updated and patched
as security holes emerge.  As those holes emerge, hackbots start probing
the net for them.  You can be hacked faster than you think.

Nothing personal, but considering PHPBB's history combined with the fact
that whomever volunteers to install and patch PHPBB now might be too
busy to keep up with it a few months from now, I think installing PHPBB
is too risky.

Once again, have to agree with Adrian here.  Letting an outside service
provider administer a web interface to the list is a better option.

- Greg