Re: [Gnewsense-dev] new how to help draft page

[Sam Geeraerts]

Graziano Sorbaioli schreef:
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> Due to a recent discussion about how to attract more developers to
> gNewSense I am working at the new how to help page here:
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> http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Main/CurrentProjectsTest
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> I am looking for your help because I think the "description" entry of
> each role should be detailed better.
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> Could you help me writing something better?

May I suggest a different naming scheme? I think we can lose the 
"gNewSense" in every header because I don't think we'll have any 
projects not related to gNewSense. I suggest making it all Teams. Not 
only is it more reader-friendly to have it all the same, it also sounds 
more encouraging.

Allow me to illustrate my point. Let's say Eric has just discovered 
gNewSense and has found his way to the HowToHelp page. He has done some 
scribbling in XHTML and CSS and knows how to use a validator, so he sees 
if he can contribute some work on the website. Eric has only recently 
heard about free software and this is his first encounter with the 
development side of it. Licenses, binary blobs, mailing lists, command 
lines, ..., it's all a bit intimidating. "Hm, it says here on this 
Current Projects page that the website is being worked on by the Website 
Developers. I'm more of a beginner, not a hacker like those guys. I'd 
best not get in the way." Whereas when Eric read about the "Website 
Team" he'd rather think: "Hey, there's a team I can join. I bet they can 
explain to me how things work and point me to something I can start 
with. If there's a problem, I can always ask someone for help." So with 
"team" the emphasis lies on the group rather than on the individual.

So:
- Builder Team
- Website Team
- Artwork Team
- Documentation Team
- Freedom Verification Team
- Tranlation Teams
- Community Management Team

For the description of the Freedom Verification Team:
Check if code is free of binary blobs and distributed under a free license.

> I am still waiting for someone at the FSF/gNewSense to open an email
> alias for the Volunteer Coordinator.
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> gvc at nongnu.org?
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> gvc at gnu.org already exists
> gvc at gnewsense.org  I don't know if it's possible to have.

I'd rather make it a full word instead of an acronym, e.g. 
address@hidden or address@hidden Although, if we 
can't have a @gnewsense.org one, an acronym might be more practicle.