Re: [Gnumed-devel] front wiki page

[J Busser]

At 12:26 PM +0100 2/15/05, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> One should rather ask what type of people come to the wiki for
> information ?
>
> a) users
> b) developers
> c) undecided people

I think you will be right later on, yet at present we *do not have* 
any users (really) so we are pulled between "order" versus serving 
the needs of people who can usefully get involved "right now". People 
cannot at present even *become users* (even of the pre 0.1 code) 
unless they can themselves (or can get someone to) do technically 
administrative work like installation.

Right now there are really only "current" developers (who, being 
familiar,  will go to Developer's corner or RoadMap or 
DevelopmentReference) --OR-- "everybody else" who may as well be 
directed into an overview of what is available (the Getting Started).

I do think a bigger challenge that the front page is that the content 
has not yet integrated, in the same way that there are still 2 config 
methods etc. But I do agree we should continue developing the content 
for users, administrators, and developers and to link these resources 
*at least* to the level below the front page, and to reshape the 
front page once we have (or are ready for, or expect) more types of 
visitors.

I would appreciate more views than just yours and mine, after all you 
are already familiar with most aspects of the project and, like you, 
I am familiar with the wiki content, so you and I are more 
conjecturing what would be useful to any "one type" of visitor.

If you and I can be given more input to support what you propose as 
more useful **as immediately as the next few months** I should 
happily revise my thinking. So list members, please add your wisdom.