Decision time (was Re: [Webteam] Frontpage revised)

[Brad Fuller]

goran at krampe.se wrote:

>Eh, please skip the HTML in postings btw - it makes it very hard for me
>(I use Celeste).
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Hmmm.... Thunderbird is suppose to change that to plain text. I'll fix that.

>You wrote (regarding pushing "news" items onto the site etc:
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>>Well.. I've been around a while. And, yeah, it's work. But, that's what
>>we signed up for.
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>Actually, I didn't. :) I am in this team because a) I am the coord for
>it and b) because I want the site to be good.
>I didn't specifically sign up for being a "news" item collector and
>pusher, I will not have the time to spare.
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I didn't mean that you were a news creator/pusher. I meant that we 
signed up to create and maintain the website. That's all. If one accepts 
the job to maintain the homepage, then.... they should maintain it. 
However, maybe my assumption that the team and community wants an active 
homepage is wrong. That's ok, I can adjust.

>So I think we should either a) make sure we have someone willing or b)
>make sure we "suck" these things from one or two other places. IMHO
>there is no need to create "yet another feed".
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agreed. I'm all for an automatic way of keeping the homepage active.

>The proposal is "minimalistic" and I am not sure I like it - as I have
>repeatedly said I would wish for the front page to actually have a bit
>of content and not just be a link-station (we already have the TOC on
>the left so it seems we could in that case leave the front page *blank*
>and be done with it. :)).
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Ha! I don't think it should be blank, but I catch your drift.  Maybe it 
should have a bit more content. Don't know what, though. The "Next 
Steps" is a great idea... that's for sure.
That's my input, but I have been wrong many times in the past :-)

Let's hear from others!

cheers,
brad