[documentation] Hitchhikers guide to Drupal

[Laura Scott]

You know, I'm wondering if it might not make sense to use Drupal's 
multi-site capability and follow up on this sister site idea with an 
in-house solution -- a new site sharing the existing user database (only 
one login) but otherwise having a different-yet-complementary look and 
more casual focus. A *Drupal Lounge* (lounge.drupal.org) where forum 
topics are more free-form and the focus is more user-centric. All the 
heavy lifting, developer talk, debugging and troubleshooting would 
remain on Drupal.org, but the Lounge would be more of a place where 
people can brag about their sites, talk about how they did X or Y, ask 
all the dumb questions (though there's no such thing as a dumb question, 
only dumb answers), and talk about ways to use Drupal, as opposed to 
ways to improve/change Drupal. It also could be a place for a 
self-appointed welcome wagon.

That way there's an expanded/new community to grow, without balkanizing 
the Drupal community too much.

Too much work? Too radical?

Laura


Kim P. Werker wrote:
> On 5-Jan-06, at 6:35 PM, Charlie Lowe wrote:
>
>> This for no other reason than the difference in who would feel 
>> empowered to speak and contribute in such a community.
>
> Yes! Exactly.
>
> I think I failed to be clear about something I said earlier -- I 
> wasn't complaining. Any resistance I thought implied or explicit isn't 
> something I feel defensive about. Especially today, I'm simply gaining 
> more and more of an understanding of the community and of the project 
> as a whole. In light of this, and after grabbing a drink with Boris et 
> al. tonight, Greg and I are reexamining and fleshing out our newbie 
> documentation ideas. Heine, thank you for wanting to help.
>
> Back to what Charlie said -- I waited over 9 weeks to join drupal.org 
> and make that forum post. I didn't join until *after* I nearly ditched 
> Drupal and then figured it out. I wasn't comfortable asking what I 
> feared would be considered stupid questions, or, even worse, I didn't 
> want to come across as a whiner. I think Charlie hit the nail on the 
> head.
>
> Anyway, it took a pretty lively discussion on our forum post and the 
> serendipity of living in Vancouver to bring me to today, when I 
> finally figured out that my assumption about the future of Drupal 
> (that it would eventually be super user-friendly and easily 
> implemented by everyone and their uncles) *isn't* actually the end 
> everyone's striving for. And that's totally cool.
>
> Now I get where the Hitchhikers page fits in. I still think posting it 
> is a bad idea, but I definitely think I would have benefited 11 weeks 
> ago from a page that told me that drupal.org is a developer-centered 
> community that depends on an open source behaviour code (if you will), 
> and only provides user support based on the generosity and/or 
> professional services of community members.
>
> Cheers,
> Kim
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