[webteam] welcome

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Hal Rottenberg wrote:
> On 7/10/07, Sander Devrieze <s.devrieze at pandora.be> wrote:
>> Anyway, if all people here believe I am totally wrong, just go ahead.
>> But it's obviously that that will be without me; I don't plan to
>> compete with myself on a website targeting end users and admins...I'm
>> already doing this on other projects :o)
>>
>> > But I think the best thing is perhaps to make www.jabber.org focused on
>> > end users and then construct some sub-sites like dev.jabber.org and
>> > biz.jabber.org.
>>
>> I don't like that either; I want some very organic project targeted at
>> contributors, something like the Linux Foundation, but with the
>> standards part.
> 
> I think a compromise can be found.  Your input is valuable and you
> obviously have some well thought opinions on some aspects that we all
> care about.  It's just that most of us are prioritizing things
> differently.  I thought long and hard myself about whether it was
> worth making a bit point-by-point reply to you and I decided it
> couldn't be done without hurting feelings which I saw no point in
> doing.
> 
> So rather than having you Sander go off and do your own thing, I ask
> that you give the project some time and redirect your focus into the
> bits that will be in common with both PSA's goal of having an end user
> site and your own goal of having the dev/contributor site. (The back
> end, the taxonomy, the site design, etc.) Work down that path for a
> time, and when it doesn't make sense for you to continue to do so,
> maybe then we'll be ready to diverge and then you'll have a lot of
> creative freedom over that section of content.

Well said, Hal.

At today's jabber.org site there is already a lot of information that
people other than end users find helpful. The software lists in
particular. IMHO the first priority should be migrating what we've got
over to a more sustainable infrastructure so that people can edit the
information more easily (i.e., PSA is not the bottleneck anymore).

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/

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