I've made some look and feel changes to the site along the lines of what
Peter Sergeant suggested in this message:
http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20031020/022364.html
What do you think?
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I wrote a little pub search thing for the London OpenGuide. Comments
welcome. Is this the kind of thing people would like to see on the site?
Here it is on my dev site:
http://un.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/pubsearch-alpha.cgi
Kake
A rather perceptive post, forwarded in full from the london.pm discussion.
Kake
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From: Simon Wilcox <essuu(a)ourshack.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:07:15 +0100 (BST)
To: london.pm(a)london.pm.org.realprogrammers.com
Subject: Re: Call for Comments - OpenGuides and usability
On 22 Oct 2003, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> There are four kinds of people regarding Wikis:
I would argue that the technology is irrelevant, There are two kinds of
people who might interact with Open Guide:
1. Consumers
2. Producers
A successful site will make it easy for consumers to consume and producers
to produce. There will always be many more consumers than producers. A
*really* successful site will be able to convert consumers into producers.
Arguably Open Guide succeeds at none of these things as it only really
makes it easy for *producers* to consume as too much pre-knowledge is
required to understand and navigate the site and a lot of the early
information is aimed at producers.
But then, I guess it depends on what you define as "successful". Perhaps
we should ask that question - how will we know when Open Guide to London
is a success ?
Simon.
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