[Koha] Koha-Community Site & Press Releases

[Liz Rea]

Here are my concerns re: Company press releases on koha-community.org.

disclaimer: Vendors, I am sympathetic to your plight, don't take it personally. ;)

I, personally, would rather keep koha-community.org as vendor agnostic as possible. This includes press releases, hosted demos (would need to change how this currently works), and other vendor specific news. The reason for this is that I don't want legitimate community news to get lost in a sea of "X company signs Y library for support/hosting" type of news. I look to the project website to tell me what I need to know about the status of the project, not explicitly about companies supporting the project (we have a spot for that, under Paid Support).

We have seen what happens when a financially interested party takes control of our assets. It's not pretty.

I propose the following structure: 

Press releases are not part of the general timeline of the home page. All Press releases should be in a "press release" or "Vendor Press" category.
Debate: general press about Koha (non-vendor related): Part of the timeline or separate? I'm for part of the timeline, but would like to know what everyone thinks.

The headlines of items in the "Press Release" or "Vendor Press" category will be shown in the sidebar, where the existing "Press" information is currently located. Possibly change the title of that section to "Vendor Press." We will display the last 5 items from "Press Release" or "Vendor Press" categories.

List of all press release items will be available by clicking on the "Press Release" or "Vendor Press" category links.

Thoughts?

I really want this to be as transparent and collaborative as possible. Whatever we decide, I'll help to make it happen.

Liz Rea
NEKLS




On Mar 3, 2010, at 6:50 AM, Nicole Engard wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Galen Charlton <gmcharlt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Now that Koha-Community.org is the official site, I assume this is
>>> where I'm supposed to put press releases.  Do we want a separate blog
>>> for that? or just a separate category?
>> 
>> I think a separate category is sufficient.
>> 
> 
> I agree - just wanted to get at least one other person to agree with me :)
> 
> Thanks
> Nicole
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