www.gnome.org - "Get Involved" section
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Summary
This page is about the "Get Involved" section of the new www.gnome.org site that is being worked on by the GnomeWeb team. (Looking for a "get involved in GnomeWeb" page? see GnomeWeb/Team.)
Here we're going to plan what's in this section, research what information we need, and then write it.
This goal depends on GnomeWeb/NewWgoStructure, and the use cases defined in GnomeWeb/UseCases. This goal is related to GnomeWeb/LayoutPlanning (which defines how the pages will actually look) and GnomeWeb/CmsSetup.
We are currently in the planning phase. See GnomeWeb/DevelopmentTimeline to know more about the 2.18 release schedule. See GnomeWeb/Goals for a complete list of goals and their status.
Starting points
The earlier goal defines the following structure:
Get Involved - Who can help and why, stressing several types of users and tasks apart from developers-hacking. Where to meet us, online (lists, forums IRC) and offline (local groups, events).
- Spread GNOME - Marketing actions
- Store - Merchandising to go.
- Donate - Friends of GNOME and donations interface
- Contribute - Suggestions for newbies
Do QA - Process for filing Bugs/Triaging --SankarshanMukhopadhyay
- Bring your project - Hosting, bugzilla, GNOME "certification", how to get into the release.
- Business - Suggestions for software companies, publishers, training centers...
- Public sector - Suggestions for public administrations, education...
Tasks
The main task is to plan and write this section of the www.gnome.org site. This breaks down into:
- Plan the content of the pages in more detail, starting from the structure defined in the previous goal.
- Research the information needed, contact relevant teams
- Spread GNOME -- is this an existing endeavour or something we're starting? Ask the Marketing team
- Store -- how does this connect with the Store goal?
- Friends of gnome -- is that even an actual organization? I have no idea
- Hosting, bugzilla, getting into release etc -- contact admins. Get information from them.
Certification -- this is still a draft (GnomeCertification). Give this a kick to get it going?
- Business - I have no idea what's needed here.
- Public sector -- ditto
- Write the pages on the CMS
- Create images and screenshots as needed
Page list
This is a rough outline of the pages the Get Involved section will have: titles and a summary of content. This is a work in progress. Please edit and extend!
wgo >> Get Involved
This is the top-level page for this section.
- Who can help and why, stressing several types of users and tasks apart from developers-hacking.
- How to contact gnome.
- Overview of the rest of this section
wgo >> Get Involved >> Spread the word
Ways in which you can help spread GNOME.
- Some suggestions of things you could do: LUGs, etc.
Get gnome banners & badges for your website.
Get promotional material: leaflets, posters, LiveCD (--> link to another section), branded stuff in the store (--> another link)
- Help gnome marketing -- join the marketing team.
wgo >> Get Involved >> Store
This page is the GNOME Store. Buy GNOME stuff! This page has a separate task to plan it: GnomeWeb/GnomeStore
wgo >> Get Involved >> Donate
How to make donations to the GNOME Foundation. Donations interface (what exactly would this be?) Previous donations? Examples of what GNOME does with donations? (--> link to Foundation subsite)
wgo >> Get Involved >> Contribute
Ways in which you can contribute to Gnome:
- Filing and triaging bugs
- Documentation
- Translation
- Marketing
- Programming
wgo >> Get Involved >> New projects
Bring your project - Hosting, bugzilla, GNOME "certification", how to get into the release.
wgo >> Get Involved >> Business
Can be downloaded at http://www.jauco.nl/temporary/wgo_get_involved_businesses.abw
wgo >> Get Involved >> Public sector
Suggestions for public administrations, education...
Participants
- Your name here...
See GnomeWeb/Team for the participants of the entire GnomeWeb Revamp (or to add yourself to the list)