[squeakland] on having two squeakland websites

[Timothy Falconer]

On Sep 2, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Timothy Falconer wrote:

>
> On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
>> On 02.09.2009, at 16:45, Timothy Falconer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> A few people have been suggesting that Squeakland should have two  
>>> websites, the "official" site we have now, and a new "community"  
>>> website with a different look & navigation scheme.
>>
>> As we discussed before on etoys-dev, we are talking about  
>> separating the redacted content from the community contributed  
>> content. I suggested this can run on the same system, it would just  
>> be a different visual theme.
>>
>> This would make it obvious to visitors if they are on the  
>> "official" or the "community" pages.
>>
>> Maybe I shouldn't have said "community site" before and "community  
>> section" instead - but the surrounding discussion should have made  
>> the intent clear.
>
>
> My apologies if a separate site was never desired by you, Rita, or a  
> few others.   I'm responding not just to recent discussions on etoys- 
> dev, but many, many talks within the last year, where a separate  
> site seemed wished for.   It's possible that repeated use of terms  
> like "project server" and "community site" simply helped to create  
> this impression, along with resistance to the new showcase given  
> superswiki2 and michael's system.


I should also say that I took the time to lay out the reasons against  
splitting the site so that we'd have something to point to when the  
topic comes up again, which it likely will (and why I put it on the  
wiki).