[webteam] radical simplicity

[Robert Martinez]

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?
>
> Peter
>
>   
Glad to hear that.

I think the endless amount of missing services gets obvious if you ask 
yourself:

"Is there a place that shows you how big jabber is?" (theoretical 
possibilities AND current implementations)

1.  Jabber.org should be a guiding hand that helps you discovering jabber.
We can only show people what we can see! Let everybody contribute by 
adding tons and tons of projects or news or tutorials or addons to 
whatever!!!
Our job should be to provide a platform that allows THAT by bringing 
order to the chaos and present the information clear, useful and user 
oriented.

- i can only think of a solution that involve something like drupal. We 
need to use the eyes of everyone, no jabber-related gem should remain 
unseen!

2. What is all of the above  worth, if it isn't up to date?
Jabber.org should also become well known for up to date project information.
A hard task if you consider that xmpp projects will appear more 
frequently in the future.

- I can't think of any xmpp-nerd that wants to hack boring release 
information to static XML files for the rest of his life.
Though I bet every project has its certain fanboy who will be proud to 
do that. Give those people a drupal account and you're done!

3. We need to become peoples mouth.
We aren't a company that has to buy good advertisement (not even in the 
footer of some community pages). We can use the word of mouth, if we 
give people a voice.
And I'm not talking about "one small voice" ;)

- we need to let everybody give feedback to everything we present to 
them, and let people decide for their own what to vote up or down.
Needless to say: a drupal is needed for that.

Finally I think we'll benefit from a more vivid appearance, because 
currently - jabber.org looks like a soulless attempt to promote 
something that "should" be something by the people for the people.