[wplug-board] Wiki cleanup

[Justin Smith]

Great job, Vance! The front page looks much less cluttered. 

Vance shouldn't be the only one to do this sort of work, of course. As we 
move forward with our plans to migrate to CentOS 7, we should all try to 
experiment with ideas for how we can give our Web site a thorough facelift.

Don't forget that I can still call in a favor from Gretchen, one of our video 
producers at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. In exchange for me setting up her 
Android tablet, she offered to make a short promotional video for WPLUG.

When Beth Lynn was in town last year, she told me that giving out Open 
Badges[1] might encourage people to contribute to the wiki. Badges don't 
necessarily have to be mere decorations; they can be a way for people to 
prove that they've done good work in WPLUG. 

In a professional context. that would give employers a simple way to verify 
that someone has been involved with WPLUG in a significant capacity. A 
novice Web designer could say "I helped redesign WPLUG.org, and here's 
the proof." When I was looking for work last year, I told people I was on the 
WPLUG board, but not everyone is involved in a way that can be so easily 
verified. 

It'd be a good way for us to get exposure, too: people can share badges 
on blogs, social media, and so on.

Let's put our heads together and keep thinking.

-- 
*Justin Smith*
GNU/Linux System Administrator

/"Any fool can use a computer. Many do."/


> I made some cleanups to the main page on the wiki, moving old
> information to other locations.  Hopefully it's a bit simpler and
> easier to navigate.
> 
> Feel free to make any more edits you think would improve things.
> 
> I'm also working on a script to get events from the old server
> that ran OpenACS into the wiki.  I just need to get a converter
> from HTML to MediaWiki syntax working.
> 
> Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these ropes and into a
> vkochend at nyx.net          |   good belt of Scotch"    -Nick Danger
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[1] http://openbadges.org/
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