[webteam] welcome

[Sander Devrieze]

2007/7/9, Florian Jensen <admin at flosoft.biz>:
<snip>
> About Leader: I think there should be a sort of leader, i.e. someone who
> keeps track of the direction where we're heading. But this should only be
> decided later on, once the project gets started.

People can create teams and people can join them. No need for leaders,
all can be very organic and flexible.

> About the EndUsers: End Users, or DAU's, as we call them in german, don't
> want to browse X-thousand sites, but want to get the information directly.

Normal end users don't want to change software: they are inert and
just use what is installed or everyone uses. A Jabber end user site
will not change this. Persuading other projects that don't support
Jabber yet is a much easier to achieve goal which will increase
network effects for Jabber technologies. For example, if we can
convince the Ubuntu project to integrate Jabber in their project,
people will need a Jabber account for these features. Because they can
do something useful with it, it is more likely they will switch to
Jabber.

> This is why the idea of centralizing documentation and setting up the
> community directly on Jabber.org is better. Take a look at Ubuntu. There is
> only one big Forum, Ubuntuforums.org. Everyone goes there, because everyone
> is there. Here at Jabber, you have to use Google to find replies to your
> problem, as they are spread all over the web.

Jabber is no product, Jabber is a protocol community. Creating a
website for end users on jabber.org will confuse people even more
about this I'm afraid. Ubuntu is a specific project. Have you ever
heard of some website to promote *all* Linux distributions? Yes, I
did, but they are not targeted at end users. They are targeted at
collaboration between the different Linux distributions. I would like
the website we are creating to be something like the Linux Foundation.
Please read the About page, it is very similar to what I am proposing
here: http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/About Also the workgroups
part on that website might be something useful to do:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Workgroups

-- 
Mvg, Sander Devrieze.