website reorganization plan

[Andreas Lloyd]

Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> I just posted a few bugs, but I think the most important issue is
> getting the categorization issue sorted out, and finding a consistent 
> way to present primary and secondary categories. For example, which 
> page exactly is the top level of "Community", and does the Fridge look 
> like a child page of that category index?
>
> Possible top-level categories:
> *   "News" (features, press releases)
> *   "About" (what is Ubuntu, versions, etc)
> *   "Get Ubuntu" (download, Amazon, ShipIt)
> *   "Development" (wiki, /developers)
> *   "Partners" (though I don't understand what this section is for)
> *   "Help & Support" (help.ubuntu.com, community support, paid support).
>   
Interesting, we discussed this a long time ago, as well. Based on what I
said then, and what MPT has suggested now, I have these suggestions:

__________ _________________ _________ _____________ _________________________

| Ubuntu | News | Participate! | Community | Partners | Help and Support |

That would give us the six tabs as MPT suggested, but with a different
rationale:

Ubuntu:
The current start page much as it is, explaining what Ubuntu is and with
a big sign to where you can download it.

News:
Would this be the fridge? Or some of the extremely few official
communications that come out about Ubuntu? Either way, it should have
reasonable amount of news coming through. Press releases and so forth.

Participate:
A new page which both links to various teams and to simple things like
filing a bug report, developer documents and so forth. A short, easily
accessible page that can give an bird's eye view of the community to
make it easy for people to get involved. I might try a put together a
draft for this if I have time.

Community:
This should provide links to get in touch with the community: forums,
mailing-lists and IRC as well as the Planet Ubuntu (maybe even have that
as the front page for that section?) As well as the sections on
governance, local teams and so on.

Partners:
Might well be called something else. Possibly "Services", "Corporate" or
maybe "Services and Industry Solutions" like on the IBM front page. This
page should be the frontpage for corporate interest and they should be
directed there. There they can get whatever corporatey information that
they might need. Corporate users have their own ideas about how that
sort of thing should look, so we better not question it. ;-) Inspiration
can be found here:

http://www.ibm.com/servicessolutions/us/
http://www-19.lotus.com/wps/portal/showcase/
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/en/partners

Support:
This would be much like it is now. Though, of course, we discussed
adding some buttons to make it easier to get direct access to the help
channels needed. I played around with such buttons, but never got any
good results. Feel free to have a look at it:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/SupportSection

(note that that having buttons would require a version of MoinMoin that
supports linking from via images - especially linking to IRC channels).

Just a bit of input. Hope this helps as well. I look forward to further
discussion on this.

Cheers,

Andreas

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