[squeakland] on having two squeakland websites

[Rita Freudenberg]

Timothy Falconer wrote:
> I'm in favor of the Scratch way (integrated as a major part of the 
> main site).   Others want the look and navigation to be different than 
> the main website, to feel like a separate place than the main website.
>
The Scratch website http://scratch.mit.edu/ was never made to be used by 
educators, but by the community. That's what I would like the public 
section of the squeakland showcase to be. But there is a new website 
from the Scratch team dedicated to educators 
http://scratched.media.mit.edu/ That would be the official section of 
squeakland.
So *they* made the decision to split. For now, our website is more like 
the educators place and I'm afraid we will loose our clear structure and 
guidance when we evolve to a community website.
While we are at it, there surely is another target audience who is not 
addressed yet on the website: the developers. There have been 
discussions on how to help people find what they look for on the website 
right on the starting page.  So there could be a kind of splitting right 
there. See these sites as examples:

http://www.sugarlabs.org/ (links at the bottom of the page)
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved (not the 
starting page, but a very nice idea I think). Actually, the idea is 
inspired from Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora

In Scratch, it is more subtle, just a picture link to ScratchEd at the 
right pane: http://scratch.mit.edu/

These are some examples for addressing certain audiences. We should 
discuss whom we would like to address and how to do that.

Rita

> I agree that a public showcase has been a long time coming.  Our 
> proposal for last year's website redesign included a Scratch-like 
> public showcase, with features such as curriculum overlays.   This 
> part was cut largely because VPRI didn't feel they had the manpower to 
> moderate a public showcase effectively.
>
> Now that control has been passed to Squeakland Foundation, we're 
> creating this public showcase as one of our first, top, priorities.
>
> Take care,
> Tim
>
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Rita Freudenberg
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