[sakai2-tcc] New Website Content

[Mark J. Norton]

 >  how to get involved, how to build sakai, ect

This is partially where the break-down occurred.  Some of this 
information is/was on sakaiproject.org.  During the Apereo conference, 
Seth started pushing to get the website content organized with an eye 
towards updating it, and I followed that lead - mistakenly, perhaps.  I 
haven't spent a huge amount of time on improving the web content, so no 
big deal if it will be handled in a different manner.  Let me know how 
the TCC wants to proceed.

The other issue seems to be understanding the scope of clearing up 
Confluence documentation should be.  Personally, I think that Sakai has 
lacked authoritative technical documentation from the very start of the 
project.  In my view, that documentation includes not only how to build 
Sakai, but how to create new tools, new services, etc.  It should 
include documentation that describes our architecture in detail, with 
examples, in a manner that builds on and expands the JavaDoc.  There has 
always been a very large barrier to working on Sakai.  The lack of good 
technical documentation is a big part of that barrier.

- Mark Norton

On 6/18/2013 7:47 AM, May, Megan Marie wrote:
> The foundation is also working on sakaiproject.org as well (Aaron alluded to this).   I also thought that the focus was on particular content in Confluence (how to get involved, how to build sakai, ect ) that should be static, in a clear space - likely sakaiproject.org.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai2-tcc-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai2-tcc-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Steve Swinsburg
> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:04 AM
> To: Aaron Zeckoski
> Cc: Ian Dolphin; sakai2-tcc
> Subject: Re: [sakai2-tcc] New Website Content
>
> Apereo.org is looked after by commercial people AFAICT, whether for payment or volunteer. I too thought this was about the wiki, originally. It's good to get this content pruned though, then it goes to the Apereo site, is that what you are thinking? Or will we still keep sakaiproject.org? It might get confusing that way.
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 18/06/2013, at 5:03, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net> wrote:
>
>> Ian should probably comment on this, but I think we are sorta paying
>> these other guys to essentially do this already so I am not sure
>> exactly but I think there is probably some (a lot?) of overlap here
>> with stuff that was maybe already done or is already being done.
>>
>> I'll leave it to others who know more about what is going on here to comment.
>> -AZ
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Mark J. Norton
>> <markjnorton at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> Having gone through all of the existing content on the
>>> sakaiproject.org web site, I've moved to the next step of capturing
>>> most of it's content and structure into the EtherPad document at
>>> http://etherpad.ctools.org/sakai-docs.  The simplest view of this
>>> site is as
>>> follows:
>>>
>>> Home
>>>
>>> Try Sakai
>>> Community
>>>
>>> Adopting
>>>
>>> Institution Map
>>> Organization List
>>>
>>> Contributing
>>>
>>> TCC
>>> CLE-CC
>>> Fellows
>>> Joining the Foundation
>>> Try the CLE
>>>
>>> Sharing
>>>
>>> Teaching Learning Group
>>> Brock University Case Study
>>>
>>> Supporting
>>>
>>> Community Support
>>> Commercial Support
>>>
>>> Getting Started
>>>
>>> Users
>>> System Administrators
>>> Technical Contributors
>>> Organizations
>>>
>>> Contact Us
>>> News
>>>
>>> There is more, but this is the basic structure.  In general, I think
>>> we want to keep most of this information.  Structure could be
>>> different, but that doesn't matter much because many of these pages
>>> are cross-linked to each other.
>>>
>>> There are also some sections/pages that are obsolete.  The page
>>> describing "Sakai Products" is confusing now that OLE is branded
>>> under Apereo.  The Sakai Foundation page with joining information is
>>> also quite out of date.  I propose that we forward people to the
>>> Apereo site for now.  If Sakai governance expands to include
>>> organizations that specifically sponsor Sakai (especially in a monetary way), we can bring this back in.
>>>
>>> I could shift much or all of this information to the GIT repo, but
>>> I'm no longer certain it is the best next step.  If we can politely
>>> ask it of Longsight, I'd like to set up Drupal site in which I can
>>> start organizing the new content - test.sakaiproject.org or something
>>> similar.  Should such a thing come into being, I am willing to edit
>>> all existing content, remove confusing material, update things that are out of date, etc.
>>>
>>> - Mark Norton
>>>
>>>
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