[webteam] welcome

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Robert Martinez wrote:
> Hi there!
>> The basic idea is that we need to define what we want the new jabber.org
>> website to be like and look like.
>>   
> I'd like to link my drupal portal project here: www.jabberportal.mray.de
> It is far away from finished, but you may find it interesting to get ideas.
> (I can create accounts for people who want to have a look at the backend)
>> 1. We want to port over some of the existing information (e.g., the
>> software pages). There is database work involved in that.
>>   
> I sucked much information from the current jabber.org page into my
> portal. (XEP defenitions and server & client properties ...)

Oh heck I could have done a dbdump for you. ;-)

> It vote for making heavy use of drupals native instruments like taxonomy
> and cck + views, even if it means to enter data manually.

I think we're using some of that at xmpp.net.

>> 3. We want to make it easy to maintain. This is a community project. I
>> don't want to be the bottleneck anymore.
>>   
> Regarding this I suggest to reduce the number of different tools
> involved here. The more we can focus on one toolset the more effective
> the community input will be. (reviews, forums, bugtracking, ...)

Agreed.

>> 5. We may decide to host forums, software reviews, blogs, and I don't
>> know what else. That's all up for discussion.
>>   
> Drupal offers all that. We should have it all at the same place.

Yep.

> Another thing I'm quite interested is the developers attitude to the
> project.
> The developers themselves (or the community around) should bother to
> keep their project information up to date.
> So I think we should make it possible for every jabber developer to
> maintain an entry of his project.

Agreed.

> There is one thing I encountered while working on my portal:
> Developers, communities and their websites often don't keep track of
> what XEPs they support.
> I love the idea to integrate that meta information to all projects in
> the database, too!
> We should try to motivate that.

+1

What do we need to do so that we can start playing with stage.jabber.org
as soon as possible?

/psa

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