Re: merging advocacy and "overview"

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Robert,
>
>> I am current leaning toward making a new menu item called "advocacy"
>> and renaming the overview/about section to "community". With that here is
>> how I see the content breaking down into those two sections:
>
> I think this is overall a very good idea. However, I think it should be
> called "about" and not "advocacy". "about" is a web industry convention, and
> new people know to automatically go to "about" for stuff like press links,
> supporters, contact info, etc.
>
> Some comments below.
>
>> members{a}
>
> Doesn't this duplicate the developer site portion?
>
>> corporate{a}
>
> We'll need to come up with some rules on who can appear here. My thoughts:
> 1) Anyone who sponsors a full-time or 1/2 time developer;
> 2) Anyone who has sponsored a significant feature in the last 3 versions.

Not sure if I agree with a 'time limit' on this one ... there should be
some sort of 'history' section ... if we are remembering a contribution,
it should be remembered, not 'fade out over time' ...

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