[Users] Kick-starting website review

Hi everyone, I sent a proposal for some thing which I think will help improve the project to the board list a few days ago: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/board/2012-June/000537.html The first step in that plan, which has received only positive feedback so far, is to review the website and wiki to focus it better on the core audience of the oVirt project. Once I got an account in the wiki, I created a stub wiki page to gather suggestions and changes people feel should be made (please add any suggestions you have - we'll prioritise and discuss any contentious ones here). Ironically, this is one of the pages that has no good category to go in yet :-) http://ovirt.org/wiki/Website_organisation The main priorities for me are: * Provide an automated way for someone to create an account on the wiki - contacting someone with an existing user account breaks the intimacy gradient for me - getting an account on the wiki feels like a semi-public thing to do, and contacting a stranger to get an account is private. * Review top level menu and web pages, and propose an alternative organisation. Some things are prominent that don't need to be, other things which should be are not. * Start spring-cleaning the wiki: make a more attractive front page, categorise pages, and generally work on making it more easily navigable * Gap analysis on the documentation we have - what docs do we need which we don't have yet? * Migrate PDF documentation to HTML (either static or wiki) - PDF documentation is not ideal, I think. It would be better, if and when PDF docs are needed, to generate them from the wiki rather than the other way around. * Promotion of the 3.1 release - I'm sure that there are announcements, release notes, etc. in the works already, and I'm happy to help work on thoise if I can. We'll work with the infra team to implement any changes that need: http://ovirt.org/wiki/Infrastructure - specifically changes to Wordpress themes - but other than that, our plan is to work in the wiki and here to come up with a list of priorities and work through them over the Summer months. I'm eager to get people working together on this - you all have lived with the site for longer than me, and can see what needs fixing/writing/changing better than I can. Part of the goal of this initiative for me is to make the development of the website and documentation more collaborative - so if you have pet hates or suggestions, please do contribute, here or in the wiki: http://ovirt.org/wiki/Website_organisation Thanks! Dave. -- Dave Neary Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards Team, Red Hat Phone: +33 9 50 71 55 62