On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 03:53:04PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
Can you expand on bring us all together as a community? Where do new users usually interface with old timers and contributors right now? It's not on the website. Has it ever been on the website? I don't think it has been. On the forums, on ask.fpo, in IRC, on mailing lists maybe?
I don't think it has been on the web sites; I guess I kind of would like it to be now, though. I'm pretty old-school, but the few mailing lists I'm really still active on are the Fedora (and Red Hat internal) ones. I would think more than twice before signing up for a new one.
We don't really run the forums, and that bb-style forum interface is clunky and awful. I hope we can have something up and running with hyperkitty soon, and I'd like to push that to higher visibility -- possibly with some all-new lists specifically chartered to have a more friendly and positive tone. That's not necessarily the front page, but I'd like it to be close by. I'd also love to see some connection with the badges system -- that's proven to be great fun for existing contributors and is an excellent way to show new ones an easy way to jump in.
What specific activities are you looking to support?
A shared space which represents the pulse of Fedora. I'd like to load the and find an interesting snippet of what's going on, along with easy paths to the four things I mentioned earlier. (Or some variant of those; like I said those were just what came to mind.) Like I said earlier, I think a merger of the current web site and the Fedora Magazine site (presuming content generation really gets off the ground and stays flying) is pretty close.