[Evergreen-web-team] [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding a page to the wiki

[Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich]

Hello, everybody.  My name is Alex (Alexey) Lazar.  I recently started at PALS, located at Minnesota State University in Mankato, MN, USA.  I will be involved with our Evergreen initiatives.  Previously, I worked as a website developer responsible for various aspects of design, code and information architecture of www.mnsu.edu.

In my experience, there are always several ways to present information, based on intended audience, topic or other schemes.  For example, developing code for Evergreen is certainly a contribution, and developers are members of the community and they communicate.

I signed up for this mailing list just in the last couple of days.  It was easy to find the information I needed under "Communicate".  It would have been just as easy to find it under "Community", which is a more broad term.  Same would probably be true if I was looking for user group information.

For what my input is worth at this point, changing the term sounds like a good idea, if not for any reason other than it's a familiar, standard term commonly used on open-source project websites.

Alexey Lazar
PALS
Information System Developer and Integrator
507-389-2907
http://www.mnpals.org/

On Mar 30, 2012, at 11:29 , Kathy Lussier wrote:

> Hi Lori,
>  
> I like using community and contribute.
>  
> However, I would be inclined to put Chat under community rather than contribute. Also, I prefer the old language “chat” to calling it a “Developer Chatroom”. There are non-developers who participate or just lurk in IRC, and I wouldn’t want to discourage other non-developers from doing the same. It’s also used for DIG, reports task force, and community meetings, so I would say the audience goes beyond developers.
>  
> Otherwise, it looks good to me!
>  
> Kathy
>  
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> Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
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> From: evergreen-web-team-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org [mailto:evergreen-web-team-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org] On Behalf Of Lori Bowen Ayre
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 12:20 PM
> To: Evergreen Discussion Group; Evergreen Community Web Team Email List
> Subject: Re: [Evergreen-web-team] [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] adding a page to the wiki
>  
> Here's what I propose for changing the Menus on the Evergreen Home page.  Instead of Communicate and Contribute, we make them Community and Contribute.
>  
> Here's what I think should be under Community:
>  
> Mailing Lists
> Official Blog
> Community Blogs
> Users Groups  (note new addition)
> Calendar
>  
> Under Contribute:
>  
> Develop Code
> Report Bugs
> Developer Chatroom (note new language and new position on menu)
> Donate to Evergreen (note this is slightly different language)
> Committees and Working Groups
> Request Feature (note new language)
>  
> Thoughts?
>  
> Lori
> 
>  
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> Oversight Board & Communications Committee / Evergreen
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> 
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Gordana Vitez <gvitez at niagaracollege.ca> wrote:
> Drupal has a section called "community" and under that:
>  
> Online and local groups
> Events and Meetups
> Chat (IRC)
> Planet Drupal
> Community Spotlight
> Commercial Support
> Forum
> Mailing Lists
>  
> Maybe the "Community" would encapsulate what we are trying to do as well?
>  
> Thanks!
> Gordana
> 
> 
> >>> On 3/27/2012 at 5:16 PM, in message <CAJcoVMj=53WVyt-SYjii-qBU7MyaYm-YXe=JQQAN+PhgiO+d9A at mail.gmail.com>, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:
> I love the idea to have user group info in the wiki!
> 
> I'm a little concerned about moving from "Communicate" to
> "Participate", because the latter seems closer in meaning to
> "Contribute" and thus muddies the navigation a bit to my mind. But I
> guess one could argue that to communicate is to contribute, so things
> are already muddy.
> 
> Has anyone checked what other projects (that we admire for their
> community support & clarity of their web site) do? Drupal.org &
> Fedoraproject.org have some interesting similarities in their
> navigation wording choices...
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com> wrote:
> > Yep, Ben. That's the idea.  Some of the Web Team folks have also already
> > +1'd the idea.  Anyone object?
> >
> > Lori
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Ben Shum <bshum at biblio.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Gordana,
> >>
> >> Just to clarify, you and Lori are referring to the navigation menu options
> >> on the main Evergreen website?
> >>
> >> I think it's a great idea to modify those areas to include references to a
> >> User Group page including the one you've started up.
> >>
> >> Curious to hear feedback from others on this.
> >>
> >> -- Ben
> >>
> >>
> >> On 03/27/2012 04:25 PM, Gordana Vitez wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> The Evergreen libraries in Niagara have been hosting a number of user
> >> group meetings for Evergreen users in Southern Ontario. Of course, it's not
> >> limited to the geographic area...we'd love to see everyone from all over!
> >>
> >> Nevertheless, we'd like to add our info to the wiki and Lori Bowen Ayre
> >> suggested that we change the main menu from "Communicate" to "Participate"
> >> and add a "User Group" page off that dropdown.
> >>
> >> Does anyone mind that change?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Gordana
> >>
> >> Gordana Vitez
> >> Library Services & Systems Coordinator
> >> NC Libraries and Learning Commons
> >> Niagara College
> >> 300 Woodlawn Rd
> >> Welland Ontario
> >> L3C 7L3
> >> Phone: (905) 735 2211 ext 7404
> >> Fax: (905) 736 6021
> >> gvitez at niagaracollege.ca
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Benjamin Shum
> >> Open Source Software Coordinator
> >> Bibliomation, Inc.
> >> 32 Crest Road
> >> Middlebury, CT 06762
> >> 203-577-4070, ext. 113
> >
> >
> 
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