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

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

But to address your other point.  I didn't work particularly hard on order
of the items on the menu.  I"m open to suggestions.  Alpha didn't seem
quite right so I was trying to do something like...most commonly clicked
upon at the top of the list (based on my own theories...no data).

Lori




On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Ben Shum <bshum at biblio.org> wrote:

>  Course after I hit send, I realize that the wording was altered to
> "Donate to Evergreen" instead for the specific example I selected of a
> "missing link".
>
> Sorry about that, my mistake.
>
> -- Ben
>
>
> On 03/30/2012 04:13 PM, Ben Shum wrote:
>
> Neat this sounds great!  But curious on some technical details...
>
> The order specified for Community and Contribute menu links are different
> than the existing entries on the site (and it's missing some of the links
> too, like the "Support Evergreen" link under current Contribute).
>
> Has there been further discussion in other threads about the menu links
> and what's included and/or the order for them?
>
> Will these changes also affect the landing pages associated with the
> links?  Should communicate.php now instead be community.php page, with
> appropriate page title, links on that page changed, etc.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Ben
>
>
> On 03/30/2012 12:43 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote:
>
> Hi Kathy,
>
>  Yea, I was torn about the Chat language.  Thanks for the feedback.  I'm
> happy to go with your changes.  So that would be:
>
>
>   *Community*
>
>
>
> Chat
>
> Mailing Lists
>
> Official Blog
>
> Community Blogs
>
> Users Groups  (note new addition)
>
> Calendar
>
>
>
> *Contribute*
>
>
>
> Develop Code
>
> Report Bugs
>  Donate to Evergreen
>
> Committees and Working Groups
>
> Request Feature
>
>  Lori
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Kathy Lussier <klussier at masslnc.org>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
>>
>>
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Kathy Lussier
>>
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>>
>> Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
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>>
>> klussier at masslnc.org
>>
>> IM: kmlussier (AOL & Yahoo)
>>
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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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>> Lori Bowen Ayre //
>>
>> Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group
>>
>> Oversight Board & Communications Committee / Evergreen
>>
>> (707) 763-6869 <%28707%29%20763-6869> // Lori.Ayre at galecia.com
>>
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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 <%28905%29%20735%202211%20ext%207404>
>> >> Fax: (905) 736 6021
>> >> gvitez at niagaracollege.ca
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Benjamin Shum
>> >> Open Source Software Coordinator
>> >> Bibliomation, Inc.
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>> >
>> >
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>
> --
> Benjamin Shum
> Open Source Software Coordinator
> Bibliomation, Inc.
> 32 Crest Road
> Middlebury, CT 06762203-577-4070, ext. 113
>
>
> --
> Benjamin Shum
> Open Source Software Coordinator
> Bibliomation, Inc.
> 32 Crest Road
> Middlebury, CT 06762203-577-4070, ext. 113
>
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