G/p/vohall - Home page for Votorola

[Thomas von der Elbe]

:-D ... I agree!
And you really did code the diff-bridge in one night! So you won the bet 
and I owe you a beer! ;-)

Thomas


Michael Allan schrieb:
> Thomas von der Elbe wrote:
>   
>> I changed the last paragraph of my homepage-proposal:
>> http://u.zelea.com/w/User:ThomasvonderElbe_GmxDe/G/p/vohall
>>     
>
> At the bottom: http://u.zelea.com:8080/v/w/Diff?a=2891&b=2893
> (That's our new hack/prototype of a difference bridge.  It's ugly as
>  sin.  It works poorly on these drafts too, because of the long
>  wrapped lines.  Still hacking...)
>
>   
>> Now it doesn't sound like sinking anymore (I doubt it ever did ;-). And 
>> also its not just a plea, but also an answer to people who would like to 
>> contribute but dont know how and where and also dont get the impression, 
>> that this would be welcomed. Doesn't every project have a page or 
>> section like this?
>>     
>
> We're doing OK.  What other e-dem project has two contributors as
> active as we are? :-) But it's the users that we *most* need to reach
> out to (you agree?).  So here's a proposal:
>
>   1. Add cherry-picking to the difference bridge.  It won't only show
>      differences, but also resolve them, one by one.
>
>      [2 days]
>
>   2. Refine the usability of the bridge by testing it on p/vohall.
>      Out of this, we get:
>
>        a) Consensus on the home page, which I'll post, including your
>           appeal to contributors.
>
>        b) A usable difference bridge.
>
>      [10 days +]
>
>   3. Use the bridge to reach out to users in their native habitats
>      (discussion forums especially) where they're already doing the
>      real stuff of democracy (more or less).  Get them working with
>      the tools, in some capacity.
>
>   4. Use that experience to refine the tools (all together) and make
>      them useful to the users.  This is alpha testing, but with live
>      users.  (They're hurting for tools.  So maybe if we help them,
>      they'll help us.)
>
> What do you think?