[documentation] Collecting Drupal presentations / videos / resources together in one sane place

[Addison Berry]

On Jan 18, 2009, at 2:04 PM, George wrote:

>> So, I'd like to put together a site that collects these resources
>> together, but not a simple aggregation site as there are also some  
>> not
>> so excellent resources! Also, I think a simple RSS fed aggregation
>> site becomes too large, difficult to search, of varying quality, and
>> therefore pointless.
>>
>> Whether this site is to be a separate domain, or a subdomain on D.O  
>> is
>> unknown at this point. I can't currently see it fitting into the
>> current Drupal site, but with the redesign, who knows? (Hopefully
>> someone does!)

I think this would be easier to determine once we saw the site in  
action. I could also quite easily see a third-party resources  
"section" though.

>> I'd like to have some sort of quality control, but I understand one
>> man's rubbish is another man's gold. However, we all know quality  
>> when
>> we see it. Should there be some sort of community voting? I'm not so
>> sure, I don't believe in +1, nor stars as these can be easily
>> manipulated, and people vote for different reasons, not just the
>> usefulness of the content involved.

Agreed, this is the tricky bit of having moderated content vs. whole- 
sale aggregation. I don't know what the answer is in terms of the  
community. If it is your personal site, well you get to decide what  
goes in and what doesn't. :-) If it would be a larger Drupal community  
site, then there would need to some clearly defined criteria for what  
would be added. Not sure how narrowly that can be defined though. :-/

>> Maybe there should be a team of
>> people who say 'this goes whilst this stays'? Would you be interested
>> in helping out here?

I personally would not want to get into that game unless there were  
clear criteria that made it less a personal judgment call. I don't  
have the energy for endless battles with people over why I didn't  
include their work while adding some rivals. I'm definitely not saying  
that have a team of moderators to sift through content is bad at all,  
simply that it isn't something I myself would have time/energy for  
these days.

>> Also, I'd like some sort of community to be built around the site to
>> encourage people coming back to the site, maybe to add their own
>> tuition videos, add new presentations, make requests maybe etc. I'd
>> like to encourage people to ask questions on the video, like in a
>> comments structure maybe, so that questions and answers are in a sane
>> place. And, to encourage video/slide makers to supply some notes to
>> fill in hte missing gaps. I have no idea what format to structure  
>> this
>> community around, so once again, ideas would be welcomed!

Sounds ambitious (not that that's bad!). I know that for me it takes a  
lot of work just to get videos/tutorials done and put out. While I try  
to keep minimal tabs on the stuff once I release, I really don't have  
the time for extended care and feeding. The other thing to keep in  
mind, is if folks release something on their site and it gets added to  
your site, you now have two places for conversations to happen which  
can cause forking of discussions and repetition. I don't even have  
time to keep up with the discussions on my own (or company) site where  
I release stuff, much less yet another site too. Just something to  
think about.

All-in-all I think the overall idea is good, though tricky to  
implement well. I'd love to see this site and have a chance to try  
ideas out and see if a solid solution could be distilled that we could  
use on d.o. It would be an amazing resource, so please make sure you  
keep us in the loop as you work on it.

- Addi