From kde-pim  Sun Sep 21 17:06:54 2008
From: Thorsten Staerk <thorsten () staerk ! de>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:06:54 +0000
To: kde-pim
Subject: Re: [Kde-pim] Homapage verry out of date - where to get information?
Message-Id: <200809211906.54217.thorsten () staerk ! de>
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On Thursday 18 September 2008 21:06:07 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> Replying to myself...
>
> On Thursday 18 September 2008, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 September 2008, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > > What we really want is a webmaster who follows the development as
> > > it happens (e.g. on this list or on the IRC channel) and who
> > > handles updating the website when there are interesting things to
> > > change. Tying in to the KDE.org website upgrade (away from
> > > websites-in-svn) would also be good.
> > >
> > > We have a critical shortage of developers as it is; spending a few
> > > hours on the website -- which is something most of us developers
> > > are *not* good at -- does not feel like a productive investment of
> > > time. It's an uncomfortable trade off, because at the same time we
> > > need to attract a webmaster (see above) who wants to push the sites
> > > back into the 21st century.
> >
> > Note, that we will transfer most if not all of the contents of the
> > kontact.kde.org to userbase.kde.org (a wiki). Anne has already
> > transferred some of the contents. This will make it much easier to
> > keep the pages up-to-date because anybody will be able to help.
> >
> > FWIW, we have tried to find a webmaster for many years and even
> > though from time to time someone willing to help popped up, soon
> > afterwards he vanished again probably because he got frustrated about
> > getting no input from us, the developers. I'm putting all my hopes
> > into userbase.kde.org now.
>
> After re-reading Anne's message I see that she only planned to add a
> short introduction for each component of Kontact to userbase.kde.org
> [1] linking to http://kontact.kde.org/ for further info. I don't think
> this approach is a good idea because it means there would be two places
> that needed to be updated and kept in sync. I'm much more in favor of
> Thorsten's suggestion [2]. So, Anne's work is just the first step.
Anne did much more than she said - userbase.kde.org has become great! However, 
it is still in the responsibility of YOU - yes, you who reads this - to add 
content to and improve the content of userbase.kde.org! That is the great 
thing, EVERYONE can participate.

Thorsten
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