[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Community - Was - Ubuntu Release Party...

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 18:50 -0500, Sam Folk-Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 17:41 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 07:24 -0500, Sam Folk-Williams wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 09:38 +0100, Nicola Losito wrote:
> > > > Il giorno 12/nov/06, alle ore 09:18, Rahul Sundaram ha scritto:
> > > > 
> > > > > Not sure what this means. Are you talking about the Fedora Weekly
> > > > > News wiki or the Fedora Project wiki? A weekly tips section of
> > > > > weekly news doesnt require wiki access and you can just email the
> > > > > editor. How do you want to simplify access to that?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > As I've said in a previous mail i was thinking about our projects Wiki
> > > > which - for me - must be the primary resource for anything Fedora,
> > > > even if at first stages it will work as a bookmark to other's
> > > > resources.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > This would be a good time for a plug to the knowledge base idea. This
> > > was recently raised on the docs list and I am a strong advocate. A kbase
> > > could allow for easier submission of targeted tips and how-tos. Then we
> > > could pull from here into "tip of the day"
> > > 
> > > That's how Red Hat magazine gets it's tips section - from the
> > > kbase.redhat.com site...
> > > 
> > > Rahul - I know you discussed this in the past in regards to Klear in
> > > particular. Can we revive this?
> > 
> > I put up a workable tip-a-day mechanism over 6 months ago.  You can see
> > a mockup at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields/TipTest where I
> > directed people to test and comment on it.  It can be done entirely with
> > a simple wiki function, and just needs to be integrated into the front
> > page.  That's not a kbase substitute, but we don't need a whole kbase to
> > get this started.
> > 
> > IIRC, I held off at Patrick's request in favor of some front page
> > revamping.  That revamping never really happened, and this got
> > back-burnered.  I'm happy to put it on the front page if people would
> > just look at the darn test and comment.  Even if you say it's not good
> > enough for a band-aid fix, no problem.
> > 
> I looked at it a ways back and I think it's great. Actually I put it in
> another mock-up with a little different css usage:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SamFolkWilliams/draftMainSandbox
> 
> I think we should just do this.
> 

That looks quite good :)