Websites Team,
There's been a thread going on in fedora-list regarding our transition to fedoraproject.org. It brings up an excellent point. Except among ourselves, we have done a poor job of advertising what we are doing to the rest of the community. Although more and more resources are becoming available on fedoraproject.org, and more links are pointing to it, we haven't done much to tell people that we are now focusing on fedoraproject.org. With our recent revamp of fedora.redhat.com, we removed a great deal of content and left little more than a basic set of pages in place, but we didn't directly tell users where the information had gone. Many of the links there do now point to fedoraproject.org, but there's no explicit declaration of what is happening. I'd love to hear suggestions about how we can best remedy this oversight.
I also know that a lot of people have asked why we don't have more content on the front page of fedora.redhat.com. I've been trying to find a reasonable way to publish news there that is synchronized with the news from fedoraproject.org. Beyond that, I'd love to hear suggestions for other valuable content that could go on the front page. Karsten, Greg and I haven't really heard a whole lot of feedback on the new fedora.redhat.com, so if each of you would take a few minutes to browse the site and return to the list with your insight, that would be great.
Even if we are going to finish moving content away from fedora.redhat.com, we need to come up with key content to remain there, and the main content will likely be moved to fedoraproject.org (which we will need to advertise better). Whatever CMS (or non-CMS) solution we choose, we need to maintain our static content, and we need to tell our userbase what we are doing.
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:31:06 -0600, Patrick Barnes wrote
Websites Team,
There's been a thread going on in fedora-list regarding our transition to fedoraproject.org. It brings up an excellent point. Except among ourselves, we have done a poor job of advertising what we are doing to the rest of the community. Although more and more resources are becoming available on fedoraproject.org, and more links are pointing to it, we haven't done much to tell people that we are now focusing on fedoraproject.org. With our recent revamp of fedora.redhat.com, we removed a great deal of content and left little more than a basic set of pages in place, but we didn't directly tell users where the information had gone. Many of the links there do now point to fedoraproject.org, but there's no explicit declaration of what is happening. I'd love to hear suggestions about how we can best remedy this oversight.
I also know that a lot of people have asked why we don't have more content on the front page of fedora.redhat.com. I've been trying to find a reasonable way to publish news there that is synchronized with the news from fedoraproject.org. Beyond that, I'd love to hear suggestions for other valuable content that could go on the front page. Karsten, Greg and I haven't really heard a whole lot of feedback on the new fedora.redhat.com, so if each of you would take a few minutes to browse the site and return to the list with your insight, that would be great.
Even if we are going to finish moving content away from fedora.redhat.com, we need to come up with key content to remain there, and the main content will likely be moved to fedoraproject.org (which we will need to advertise better). Whatever CMS (or non-CMS) solution we choose, we need to maintain our static content, and we need to tell our userbase what we are doing.
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Here is my feedback.
Now that we have an official approval from Greg to use new fedora logo, let's actively put it in use.
As a start, I would like to see "Fedora Logo Design" image right on the main page.
Then, we could point to following useful sites:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ
Merry Christmas and Happy *Fedora* New Year! :) -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung
Patrick Barnes wrote:
Websites Team,
There's been a thread going on in fedora-list regarding our transition to fedoraproject.org. It brings up an excellent point. Except among ourselves, we have done a poor job of advertising what we are doing to the rest of the community. Although more and more resources are becoming available on fedoraproject.org, and more links are pointing to it, we haven't done much to tell people that we are now focusing on fedoraproject.org. With our recent revamp of fedora.redhat.com, we removed a great deal of content and left little more than a basic set of pages in place, but we didn't directly tell users where the information had gone. Many of the links there do now point to fedoraproject.org, but there's no explicit declaration of what is happening. I'd love to hear suggestions about how we can best remedy this oversight.
The immediate thing to do is to add a highlighted note to the frontpage of http://fedora.redhat.com . It can read as " We are currently in the process of evaluating a transition of this website into http://fedoraproject.org. http://fedoraproject.org is a community website thats being revamped and more content is being actively added to it on a regular basis. Users are recommended to visit this website for other regular updates. Discussions about a new content management system to host our updated infrastructure among other details is in progress in fedora-websites-list [link] and #fedora-websites freenode IRC channel [link]. If you are interested in taking part in these discussions take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites, subscribe and post to the fedora-websites mailing list{link]. Thank you for your interest in the Fedora Project "
I suppose this accurately reflects our position now. Other than that there has been a few missing links and some content that could be added or modified. I will provide a list or file bugs appropriately
websites@lists.fedoraproject.org