[D-community-commits] r14 - trunk/htdocs

Mon Feb 19 14:58:13 CET 2007

Author: h01ger-guest
Date: 2007-02-19 14:58:13 +0100 (Mon, 19 Feb 2007)
New Revision: 14

Modified:
   trunk/htdocs/index.html
Log:
rewritten large parts

Modified: trunk/htdocs/index.html
===================================================================

--- trunk/htdocs/index.html	2007-02-03 12:17:08 UTC (rev 13)
+++ trunk/htdocs/index.html	2007-02-19 13:58:13 UTC (rev 14)
@@ -46,7 +46,11 @@
 	<ul>
 		<li><a href="">coming soon</a></li>
 	</ul>
+	<li>ToDo</li>
+	<ul>
+		<li><a href="">how you can help</a> (coming soon)</li>
 	</ul>
+	</ul>
 </div>
 
 <div id="rightcol">
@@ -69,28 +73,85 @@
 <div class="item">
 <h1>About</h1>
 <p>
-debian-community.org is an effort to give something back to the community that has a great share in making debian the universal OS that it is. 
-Many people contribute to Debian: obviously the developers and package maintainers, but also translators and artists and everybody who files bugs or helps someone else on a mailinglist. 
-If you want to be part of the debian-community, but dont want to become a developer or maintainer, debian so far didn't offer you much in reward.
+
+Debian-Community.org is an effort to give something back to the community
+that has a great share in making Debian the universal OS that it is.  Many
+people contribute to Debian: obviously the developers and package
+maintainers, but also translators and artists and everybody who files bugs
+or helps someone else on a mailinglist.  If you want to be part of the
+Debian community, but dont want to become a developer or maintainer, Debian
+so far didn't offer you much in reward. 
+
 </p>
 <p>
-So this (still somewhat whacky :) idea was born, to offer a nice email-address to anybody who wants it and to setup planet(s), who aggregate more than just the developers and wannabe-developers. 
-And, of course, we want to promote ("sell") t-shirts, because everybody loves t-shirts and they are an excellent way to show about what you care! 
-But this should only be the beginning, if you have other good ideas what to do with this domain, we love to hear it!
+
+So this (still somewhat whacky :) idea was born, to offer a nice
+email-address to anybody who wants it and to setup planet(s), who aggregate
+more than just the developers and wannabe-developers.  And, of course, we
+want to promote ("sell") t-shirts, because everybody loves t-shirts and they
+are an excellent way to show about what you care! Even though we do offer all 
+these services to official Debian developers as well, the main target audience 
+for debian-community.org are the other 99,99% of the debian population! You! :)
+<p/>
+
+<p>
+But of course, Debian-Community will be about more than just emails, planets 
+and t-shirts. People choose Debian not (only) because of the community, but
+because of Debian's strengths: it's rocksolid technical base, long releasecycles 
+which allow to use Debian as a base for customisations and because of the strong 
+philosophical values.
+
+<br />
+
+But even though a stable Debian release is not only rocksolid, but also usable 
+and user-friendly, things always can be improved. I envision Debian-Community.org
+to become a meeting point for people wanting to further polish "stable", mostly 
+in the documentation area, but also want to contribute in other ways (which don't 
+need to be limited to "stable" as well). 
+
 </p>
+
+<p>
+Last but not least, debian-community.org aims to become fully localised. 
+The majority of Debian users is much more comfortable in their native tongue 
+than in English - so debian-community.org should be available in in $your_language 
+too. Patches very welcome! :)
+</p>
+
+<p>
+This should only be the beginning, if you have other good ideas what to do 
+with this domain, we love to hear it!
+
+</p>
 <h3>3 rules (for using the emailaddress and planets):</h3>
 <p>
 <ul>
+<li>be nice</li>
 <li>respect other members of the community</li>
-<li>be nice</li>
 <li>only use the email address for debian-related matters</li>
 </ul>
-If we, who run debian-community, feel you dont comply with the rules, we warn you. After three warnings, we might remove your account. That's it. Please make the debian community a place you like to hang out.
+
+If we, who run debian-community, feel you dont comply with the rules, we
+warn you. After three warnings, we might remove your account. That's it.
+Please make the debian community a place you like to hang out.
+
 </p>
-<h3>debian-community.org board or constitution</h3>
+<h3>debian-community.org, official endorsement, rules or constitution</h3>
 <p>
-None, at the moment and for a start. atm it's only me, i hope other people will jump and join in.
-<br>In general I'm happy to handover the domain to SPI - maybe thats not even needed / desireble: community.debian.org is a nice domain as well :-) Time will tell. For a start, using a new domain was the easiest and debian-community.org sounds good, doesn't it?!
+
+None, at the moment and for a start. At the moment it's only me, I hope 
+other people will jump and join in. And I believe we can run this informally 
+for quite a while without any problems. In the long term I think an official 
+endorsement from Debian is important (and maybe we want more rules how to use 
+the ressources, too. Maybe..) and therefore a clear goal of the project. 
+But right now  I think it's more important to set this all up and get some 
+useful work done. 
+
+<br />In general I'm happy to handover the domain to SPI - maybe thats not
+even needed / desireble: community.debian.org is a nice domain as well :-)
+Time will tell. For a start, using a new domain was the easiest and
+debian-community.org sounds good, doesn't it?!
+
 </p>
 </div>
 
@@ -115,12 +176,17 @@
 <div class="item">
 <h1>Todo:</h1>
 <p>
-Timeline: setup machine for email and planet after FOSDEM (end of february). Until then, concentrate on this page, the layout and create many t-shirts.
+Timeline: setup machine for email and planet after FOSDEM (end of february).
+Until then, concentrate on this page, the layout and create many t-shirts.
 <ul>
-<li><b>Urgent:</b>Webdesigner wanted! :-) If you want to help: 1. get an alioth account 2. tell me you want to help and I add you to the d-community project. 3. svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/d-community/trunk/htdocs 4. send patches (doesn't require 2.) :) 
+<li><b>Urgent:</b>Webdesigner wanted! :-) If you want to help: 1. get an
+alioth account 2. tell me you want to help and I add you to the d-community
+project. 3. svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/d-community/trunk/htdocs 4. send
+patches (doesn't require 2.) :)
 </li>
 <li>Cooperate with http://www.einval.com/~steve/DebianT/ ?!</li>
-<li>We also need hosting for a 1U machine, but that should hopefully be rather easy. </li>
+<li>We also need hosting for a 1U machine, but that should hopefully be 
+rather easy. </li>
 <li>offer tasks like http://opensuse-community.org/Tasks
 <ul>
 <li>http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200702021529</li>


