[webteam] welcome

[Bart van Bragt]

Hal Rottenberg wrote:
> http://wiki.jabber.org/index.php/Jabber.org_relaunch
I took the liberty to heavily restructure this page according to my own
ideas and what I read on this list so far.

Some major points that need to be discusses before we can really get
started:

1) Do we really want jabber.org to be the end all, be all website
regarding Jabber info?
2) Do we want internationalized versions of the content?
3) Who will be able to edit and how, who is going to be responsible? Do
we have a leader?

Regarding the first point; IMO server admins and developers should be
able to get all their information from xmpp.net. This leaves end users
(consumers and businesses) for jabber.org. IMO it's a good thing to
create a bit of focus on the sites. Trying to be the ultimate collection
of knowledge for the whole Jabber/XMPP universe is rather ambitious :)
Therefore I'd like to propose moving everything developer/admin related
to xmpp.net (as far as that hasn't happened yet) and focus on end user
content on jabber.org

Internationalization is where the previous efforts to setup an end user
site stranded. It's very hard to create a site that allows multiple
languages, especially if you want to keep all those languages reasonably
up to date and if you don't want to require a 100% translation of all
content. Last time I looked (approx a year ago?) some efforts to
facilitate this were on the way but nothing mature enough yet. No idea
what the current status on this front is.

I still think that the thing that the Jabber world lacks most is a very
good/strong end user site where people can just 'get started' with
Jabber. Jabber is still something just for geeks except for Google Talk.
It's almost impossible for Aunt Tilly to get started and the 'open,
distributed' arguments are probably not going to be enough to win her
over :) But that's a different discussion :D Main thing is that we
create a visually appealing site where it's trivial for people to figure
out what Jabber is and how to get started. All this is a few minutes
with a minimal amount of reading.

Main things that I can contribute:
- Backend code (I've got some MySQL/PHP skills, no Drupal experience yet
but willing to learn)
- Server setup/administration (some experience with running large LAMP
sites)

FYI: my old JID is having some problems, currently reachable as bartvb
on Google Talk.

Bart