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

[Kyle Klipowicz]

The hard part will be finding someone with the time and energy to be a curator!

~Kyle

On 2/28/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
> On Feb 28, 2007, at 5:55 PM, Steffen wrote:
>
> >
> > 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?
>
> Well, we generally work by lazy consensus, meaning post a proposal,
> wait a week, if there are no objections, it's approved.
>
> >> 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.
>
> A curator-to-be could build the wiki pages in their home folder, then
> they would be moved into the exhibition when the time comes.
>
> > 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?
>
> I like this proposal a lot as it is now.  I'd say it's a done deal in
> my book.  I would just take this email, maybe edit it a bit, and post
> it to this list as it's own distinct email with a header that
> highlights that it's a proposal to be accepted or rejected.  Then we
> can wait several days, if there are no objections, do it.
>
> I do have some minor additions:
>
> - curators cannot post their own work
> - people add themselves to curator slots (wiki page or whatever)
> - if curator slots are filled very far in advance, we change the
> system then
>
> And just to be clear, there should be one "official" overarching
> manager/moderator for the exhibition pages to set up the current
> pages, manage other questions, etc.  I'll do this if no one else
> wants to, but it sounds like you are on it, Steffen.
>
> This sounds very good, it's about time we did this!
>
> .hc
>
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