Social Network by Luc Legay
I have been thinking. This is not quite unusual but this time it had a reason: Augustín’s blog about Social Networks and Lydia’s identi.ca review.
With the introduction of so called Social Networks and Social Features on a lot of websites, the way we see and use the internet has changed from broadcasting to joining conversations.
The good news is that KDE – like most FLOSS communities – is very well set. (weiterlesen…)
Google Apps like Mail, Reader, Calendar and Docs make cover a big part of my daily work flow. This is mostly because I switch between various machines and operating systems on a regular basis and not so much because I think they are better or whatever than the usual suspects on the desktops. These are the add-ons I still use after an extensive time of testing.
I spent a rather large part of my working hours on the internet: reading feeds, monitoring microblogging sites or sharing blogs and articles via bookmarking services. To keep it short: I live in my web browser.
The smartest thing about Firefox is its extendability. There is a ton of more or less useful add-ons available on Mozilla’s Add-on site that solve even those issues you have hardly thought about before finding the extension.
I collected a list of extensions I use more or less every day for my colleagues who will jump to my side on the internet and I thought it might be of interest to more people.
It’s a huge list that covers a lot areas from the usual Google enhancements to more juicy things like Geasemonkey scripts and I will split it up into several blog postings over the next weeks.
Things are in the move it seems and I am still all about drafting concepts for a renewal of the KOffice web presence. We have been discussing this on IRC a bit and it seems that quite some people liked the ideas, so I chose to present them here to give others the opportunity to think about it and maybe reuse it or make smart™ suggestions. ;)
From simple to complex
My starting point was to find a solution to present KOffice independently without doubling maintenance work and spreading ressources even further on the net.
At the moment, everything KOffice is quite confusing: there is a terribly outdated (content wise) website that is pretty complicated to keep up to date with the use of SVN, a wiki that is hard to find and needs to be searched for everything and resources both on userbase and techbase. So we have actually four places where content is spread and that need maintenance. Not too clever, ey?
Now we have to start sorting things again.
I would like to see everything that feels like promotion on a landing page on koffice.org, this includes a generally introductory text about KOffice, a description of the single apps, the vision and maybe the KOffice team. Adding to that should be Latest news such as release notes and – in a prominent place – links to external ressources for both users and developers.
Outsourcing
That leads me to my next point: userbase and techbase. Those are highly useful and visible places and should host all the content that is likely to change frequently like tutorials, FAQs and other documentation. By moving content there, we make use of the already existing infrastructure and take quite some work away from the KOffice team to those maintaining the *base sites. Chances are good that this leads to better results and that we provide good tools for community interaction and user created content. Additionally, content becomes easier to find for those who already are familiar with the KDE infrastructure. But providing links on both ends will be mandatory and take make sure, nobody gets lost on the way.
Everything that is only useful to those who actually are closely involved to KOffice development – TODO lists, release schedules, internal discussions and general organisation – will stay on the current wiki. The developers seem to be happy with it and I don’t see a reason to move any of this content anywhere else. There is a enough to move around without this…
Now we only need to write fancy PR texts for the landing page and start moving and sorting content. *cough*
Lifestream
This will add some extra coolness to the whole concept and will be covered later when we have discussed things further. Stay tuned.