[OSM-talk] How can we spread the tribal knowledge?

[Tom Hughes]

On 18/05/10 09:39, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 07:38, Mikel Maron<mikel_maron at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> I think the most effective way to push forward what osm.org could be
>> is by demonstrating ideas with code. Isn't the code base now on github?
>> Start forking, trying out ideas ... things that work are going to be more
>> convincing than our descriptions of what to do. Code that works
>> (in all senses) should make it out to production.
>
> Yeah I'm aware of the GitHub mirror, I put it there. Some things lend
> themselves well to experimental patches. I don't think this is one of
> those things, for reasons that are about to become apparent.
>
> Here's a mockup:
>
>      http://v.nix.is/~avar/insert-stuff-here.png
>
> The contents of the white area would be determined by the
> aforementioned user editable&  reviewed page. The brief about blurb
> that's now right below the logo should probably be the first thing
> merged into it.

Unfortunately that mockup leaves all the worst bits of the current site 
intact ;-)

Before you all get too carried away with this "extra tab" idea of Ævar's 
I would just like to point out what I've said before about adding more 
tabs, namely that we already have too many and that any attempt add more 
without doing something about the layout is going to have a hard time 
getting merged.

Tom

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