Ubuntu Manual Website
I just found the Ubuntu Manual’s new website: http://ubuntu-manual.org/
I’m getting a nice Ground Control website set up, Bret Allton who some of you may have seen here on planet ubuntu is doing it. It looks really nice and it’ll be very useful for showing off the ground control video and having a good place for the how-tos and classes when we run them.
So I think that having a project website is useful, more so than just the development page on launchpad or the blog entries here in my humble scratch pad.
What do you think about projects having their own websites? Do you think it adds value to a project?
Tags: projects, Ubuntu, website
“Do you think it adds value to a project?”
Durrr. Of course.
Every meaningful project should have a website even if its just a page on the Ubuntu wiki. Else how are people going to find out about the project?
It sounds to me like you already know the answer. Go make the kick ass website for your kick ass project already.
Jimbo has the right idea. It definitely adds value to the project, especially if there are development plans and documentation available. That’s what I’m interested in, at least.
hehe, what Jimbo said!
It does add values sure. But sometimes, project manager doesn’t have the time to create a website for his project or even doesn’t have the knowledges to create it (I’m in this case). So I guess that a project (which needs a website) should probably get a website creator to do it and do it right!
If someone is maintaining the website and the content looks fresh – yes, it helps.
If not, I see it do harm to a project. There is one project I’m involved with which is actively being developed and releases are being made every few months with great advances in functionality but on the front page of their project website the last “news” article is 3 years old. We sometimes get people dropping by IRC to ask if the project is alive because the website “looks dead” – and these are just the people who complain and follow up, I can’t imagine how many just move on thinking “darn, another dead foss project”.