Three copies of Drupal.org available for redesigning: Documentation, Information Architecture, Projects

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Amazon's picture

Hello, we are going to make available three sites for teams to redesign.

1) Redesign of Drupal documentation. Documention on Drupal.org is one of the main areas for improvement according to the "State of Drupal 2007" survey. Fortunately, there's been a lot of work in Drupal 6 on the handbook module. We are going to make available a copy of Drupal.org that will be upgraded to Drupal 6 so we can start exploring how to make the handbook easier to work with. Please talk to Steven Peck if you are interested in redesiging this handbooks with Drupal 6.

2) Information architecture redesign. Drupal could do with a re-design of navigation(global, local, situation, contextual), workflow. If you are interested in information architecture let me know in this thread.

3) Project redesign. There's a LOT of great work being done with the project module, and project recommendations. If you are interested in redesigning project module and helping Derek and Chad get the project module upgraded for Drupal 6 read the thread and indicate you are joining their team.

Let's focus on forming redesigning team and when OSUOSL finishes setting up the redesign site we will hand out full admin privileges with anonymized data sets.

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sepeck's picture

Just to mention that the current 'Getting Started' section was released after the survey as well as a general handbook re-organization.

Newbie help

jayjenxi's picture

Hi,

I'm new around here and I feel that I can help out with the information architecture, from the standpoint of someone who is relatively new to Drupal.

May I know how exactly I can help?

Jen Xi

Information architecture help

Amazon's picture

Hi Jen, the way you could help is to start evaluating the current information architecture of Drupal.org. Then identify some improvements you would like to see. Once you have delivered some work products we could work with you to try those IA improvements on a copy of Drupal.org.

Kieran

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I'll start work on that

jayjenxi's picture

How would I get back to you? In this thread or via some other channels?

Respond in this thread or use my contact page

Amazon's picture

Please reply when you are done in this thread.

Kieran

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I've added an issue

leehunter's picture

Hi all, I just became aware of this thread.

I thought I should let you know that last week I added documentation IA as an issue at this location:

http://drupal.org/node/199388

I've sketched out a spreadsheet of TOCs (now in its second version) that I was hoping would stimulate some discussion.

Lee