[Kolab-devel] website improvment?

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Tuesday 05 June 2007 17:18, Benoit Mortier wrote:
> Le mardi 5 juin 2007 14:54, Bernhard Reiter a écrit :
> > On Friday 18 May 2007 14:44, Benoit Mortier wrote:
> > > All of this i well of course but i won't help with manager style of
> > > person ;-) who said i can't understand www.kolab.org they are a bunch
> > > of hacker let go and get exchange :-(
> >
> > I agree that we should improve the website and especially gear the
> > frontpages towards more non-technical users and split developers
> > information in its own subsite.
>
> Sure, so i ask again why not using a cms enabling all people to use it and
> add content ?

There are two issues with this plan
a) technical, we do not have a CMS ready and any CMS requires a significant 
learning overhead, if it is to play out its benefits.
b) content, usually the very active people know most about the core
things and we do not want them to be missinterpreted, thus we keep the
website under more control then the wiki.

Anybody can submit patches to the webpage and any developer can commit them,
but the incoming rate is quite low.
In addition we do have the wiki which is working fine in total, but also has 
some dirty spots where the community process has not yet cleaned stuff up.

> > Suggestions and help with improvements are always welcome!
> > As I said, we do have the principle information up there, but we can do
> > better. Also I think that the Kolab-Konsortium needs an even better
> > website which should focus on the business even more, less text, more eye
> > friendly.
>
> Sure and i think also the kolab consortium should open to company using
> kolab on other contries, distro. That will be a big plus for customers.

The Kolab-Konsortim is open for partnerships for other companies and 
distributions of course, it always was. We hope to present a few more 
partners in the next month to come! :)
If opensides.be wants to become a partner, I think I have explained 
our ideas how this can work a few times in the past. ;)

Bernhard

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