[webteam] radical simplicity

[Bart van Bragt]

On May 22, 2008, at 5:26, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> I like your attitude! :) Yes, we are fighting for open communication  
> and
> freedom of conversation. That's what Jabber has always been about,  
> since
> 1999.
>
> The question is, what kind of services do we need to offer at the
> jabber.org domain to achieve those goals?


I have to agree with Robert. IMO jabber.org (or Jabber in general)  
doesn't only attract geeks, xmpp.org does. A large part of the people  
that use Jabber do so because they don't like using one of the  
proprietary protocols. They want something open, something not  
controlled by one large corporate entity. Those users are not our aunt  
Tilly but they are not (all) geeks either.

In the Jabber community we have a boatload of nerdy geeks which is  
great. These geeks can write protocols, implement them, think up new  
(technically challenging) features, etc. What we need in addition to  
that are people that can and want to advocate Jabber to non-geek  
people. We need designers, copywriters, journalists, activists,  
webmasters, etc, etc. To do this and to push Jabber (Jabber as a  
philosophy, not a technology), we need to have a community that can  
coordinate the advocation efforts. This community should be on  
jabber.org and this community will not spring into existence if we  
have an XML/XSLT site :)

IMO the current site is pretty good (as a basis) and it just needs a  
bit more Drupal love. Moving my own site for a large part to Drupal is  
still pretty high on my priority list but some other 'stuff' got in  
the way :\ Because of that I'm still hardly proficient in Drupal but I  
can see what I can do on the technical side of things.

IIRC there is no issue tracker, or is there? I'm getting 'Access  
denied' on http://www.jabber.org/project


With kind regards,

Bart van Bragt