Improving our website

[Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>]

I been asking web-site "pros" if they would be interested in 
volunteering to help improve our website, and found a couple of people 
who said yes! 

The main thing I told them I was hoping for was that we were intent on 
building "community" - and changes in the web site that promoted this 
would be good, especially among the potential developers (which we need 
more of in order to graduate!).  Also - general improvements that made 
the site work better would also be appreciated. 

Up to now, the site has been done by some of the developers, who are 
amateurs (at least when it comes to creative web design).  Our site was 
initially put together by building on some prototype web-site that new 
incubator projects were pointed to as a suggestion for getting started 
quickly.

I'm guessing that this improvement effort will take several 
"iterations", and will benefit greatly from feedback from the 
community.  I've asked the new volunteers to introduce themselves, join 
the mailing lists and use our wiki to post some alternatives they've 
been thinking about and start the dialogs toward improvement.  Once 
they've done that, I hope the community will speak up and help us 
improve the site!

-Marshall