[Pdweb] Proposal wrt. guide new users with silk gloves

[Steffen]

On 28/02/2007, at 6.23, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> I'd like to see the site simplified,

IOhannes wrote:

"we should find a consensus about this before i open the page."

And this consensus haven't happened, so i guess it's hard to do much  
about it as is. It might be possible to write up suggestions in ones  
user area first, then ask if it's ok, and then it can get into the  
intended place on the site by someone with the sufficient write  
privileges?

> and have a curated exhibition section.

If someone with sufficient privileges will set up a folder for it,  
where i/we can add wiki pages i'd give it a push. It could be / 
exhibition or /showroom or /gallery or slash-something-else. I'm not  
picky. It could also be in /community/projects, but i think thats  
hiding it away too much.

In that folder, i'd create
- a wiki page ./about with some general info about what the  
exhibition/showroom/gallery is about.
- a wiki page ./organization or something like wise to use for  
organizing it. Describing the procedure, what information and meta  
information there need be in each "issue"/"volume"/exhibition and  
organizing who'll curate when.
- a wiki page ./archive with links to the past exhibitions.

Then all exhibitions, if i can decide, will have a wiki page each,  
named ./vol<number> or ./issue<number>. I think doing it this way is  
better then being monthly or bi-monthly, since then it can be  
sometimes monthly and some times bi-monthly - or what ever - without  
looking silly.

Apropos duration. I don't think an exhibition should laster less then  
a month. It's not to make it dull, but to give time to something  
serious to emerge. Separating it from the casual blog-sphere. In  
other words to give the curators time to make something interesting  
out of it, to increase quality!

The, say,  /exhibition will point to the latest exhibition.

It would be good if a coming curator could be able to plan ahead and  
start making the wiki page before it goes "on air", hence some  
management in that direction would be needed. I don't know if one can  
just manually set the ./exhibition thing to point to a given wiki  
page, that might be the easiest  way to realize both the archive, the  
pointer to the current exhibition and give coming curators the  
possibility to plan ahead. This also mean that the dir-listing that  
happens in the menu should be turned off for this folder or at least  
that future/planed exhibitions should be invisible.

When it's set up and ready for action i could send a few PR emails.  
For example to Create Digital Music, .microsound-announce, Pd- 
announce and what have we. From then it could be organized though the  
wiki and this list.

What do you all think?
How would curate?
Can write access to a place like that be given?