Embedded Wiki Design
Here are some notes on CELF's new idea to create an embedded wiki.
from AG meeting
- current wiki is too CELF-centric
- new wiki focus should be embedded, but with CELF as a sponsor
- could look for other sponsors as well
- current wiki is very unorganized (just like all wikis)
- need to methodically maintain content, but it doesn't happen
- need to have a specific project to organize content and maintain it
- no volunteers
- should be able to fund a part-time person for task of initial implementation
- maybe 10-20K cost
Tim's Notes
- this might compete with commercial sites (linuxdevices?)
- probably not - won't be a news site
- should augment or reference existing materials
- need to go in and categorize content after each conference (CELF or otherwise)
- should be highly useful to average embedded developer
- content should be organized by???:
- feature areas: boot time, power management, real time?
- technology areas: synchronization, XIP, file systems, audio?
- development tasks: configuration, development, debugging, tuning?
- need "clusters" of pages
- how to get people to contribute?
- idea for e-mail based micro-contributions??
- request and/or pay people for articles in specific areas?
- have to avoid "I'm not the page owner" syndrome
- site has to become popular within open source community
- need to actively market the site?
- need to open it up to Japan audience
- need translations of pages
- this didn't get very far on the original wiki - How to improve?
- need translations of pages
- how to avoid wiki rot?
- automatically re-validate pages over time using a micro-contribution system?
- ability to sort page by age of last update/last validation?
- how to avoid wiki-spam?
- use latest Moin Moin
- how to make it easy to publish
- automatic system for handling data (charts, graphs, etc.)
- need to unlock and refactor content in presentations.
- Should get original presentations as well as PDFs so they can be put onto wiki pages
Some notes on building a community
See this article: How to Turn Lurkers Into Posters