[drupal-docs] Update on About section

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On 15 May 2005, at 12:38 AM, bryan kennedy wrote:

> On May 14, 2005, at 12:48 AM, Kieran Lal wrote:
>
>> Do you want to update us on your efforts with the about sections?
>
> Why sure.  I am still working away at the about section, based on
> this structure outline that people seemed pleased with when I posted
> here before:
>
> http://mysteryexperience.com/drupal/handbook_v2_drupal.html
>
> There has been some discussion that the Features and the Why Drupal
> sections need to be better written to focus on the audience we want
> to attract.  Great!  Go to it.  Or if you have <em>specific</em>
> suggestions/edits please post them here.  My goal was to get some of
> the structure in place and then let people edit it.

    Good to have something down!   I'm sure it will all find a place 
somewhere,
once we've figured out how to say what, to whom :)

> I thought "Why Drupal" could be a place for Djun's pages he wrote
> here (http://drupal.org/node/20350) that seem to focus on the larger
> picture of Drupal.

    Just for the record, I merely edited this section to move 
subsections into
nodes - the content was provided by Adagio.

> The "Features" section is pretty much just a re-org of the old
> features page, broken out into individual sections instead of using
> headers like most people seemed to think was a good idea. I am being
> won over to this idea.  This section focuses on the more specific
> aspects of Drupal that are important to highlight.  It DOES contain
> technical language and information about the backend of Drupal.
> Kieran pointed out that people requested info like this in the survey
> and card sort activity.  But, like I said edit away on this section
> to highlight things differently if you see fit.

     Looks like a good start!

     I was a little afraid to slice this section up into subsections
because it was so prominent, but on seeing how it looks now,
I'll go back to the old handbook and fix it up.

>
> I just posted the "Gallery" section.  This was in response to
> discussions on drupal.org, the infrastructure list, and here.  I have
> pulled together various sites and made screenshots (Thanks for the
> great suggestions Dries and Charlie).  This is by no means a
> comprehensive list of "kick ass" Drupal sites.  We need to reconcile
> this section with the information at :  http://drupal.org/cases
>
      Nice!  Perhaps there could eventually be a block with a
rotating 'featured site' on the main page of drupal.org


> So I was thinking it would eventually look like this:
> Gallery (broken up by the header level elements on the old case
> studies page (http://drupal.org/cases))

>      --Case Studies (Intro to more in depth stories about why people
> switched to Drupal, use drupal, built with drupal)
>          --Contraire.com
>          --Linux Journal
>          --etc....

     I find that the case studies don't really fit into the 'About' 
section
very well.   I think it's good to have something of this nature in
some kind of 'Information design how-to' documentation, but
the existing form of these sections is too technical, too detailed,
too first-person...  Perhaps some more succinct, edited down
cases to illustrate each of the 'types of Drupal sites" on
http://drupal.org/about ?


> Coming soon, the "Goals" section.  If anyone is interested in working
> (not endlessly discussing) with me on other parts of the About
> section I would welcome input/aid.
>
> bryan
>
> ps - I am temp. hosting the images for the gallery on my server.  I
> added a gallery on drupal.org for the images, but the uploads
> failed.  Something about a directory not being set up.  Any help?

     There is some discussion of similar failures in uploading to the
projects directory:

> Tim Altman wrote:
>> I got the same message when trying to upload a patch.  Additionally, 
>> the
>> following error was printed on the page after I reloaded: "The 
>> selected
>> file could not be uploaded, because the destination is not properly
>> configured."



    Djun