Templates and collaboration
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 2:37 pm
Hi,
We are a a group of 3 students currently attending a course about the design of collaboration in digital environment. onli proposed us to work on Serendipity project and so we did.
First, we tried to understand how the Serendipity community organizes itself and how you are working.
This graph represents what we understood. It is obvisouly lacking a lot of information but it has been done mainly in order to help us find a subject.
On this graph, you can see that a lot of arrows are aiming to "Themes/Templates". As we are interesting in collaboration processes we focused on that subject.
We started studying the submitting themes process with the following idea in mind : editing or creating a theme and sharing it can be a first step to join the community.
We searched the different websites related to Serendipity wondering how can we create or modify a theme and how could this new theme be shared with the community ?
The official documentation about templates is a good start. Maybe a too technical one. We haven't been able to find something like a beginner's guide. For example, this page could link to some step-by-step tutorial to help visualize what all the technical terms are related too. At the bottom of the page there's a small paragraph concerning contribution but sadly this one seems to link to a non-existing document.
The Theme section in the forum is also a good source of information. You are always available to answer user questions. However it seems to us that some of the questions (once they have been answered) could be part of a FAQ rather than "hidden" in the forum.
The second step is now to find a way to share our theme.
The showcase part of the forum can be used to share themes but it's more about presenting a blog than sharing knowledge and work. So we looked for something else.
They're have been initiatives developed to support the sharing of Serendipity themes :
- Serendipity-Template : this website has been announced on the Serendipity official blog and we haven't been able to find any other post or link on the Serendipity website stating that this website exist. It is now deserted (the last theme has been posted in 2010). One problem with this website is that it is "unofficial" but uses the graphical aspect of the official Serendipity websites which may lead some users to think that the Serendipity theme community has disappeared.
What do you think about that initiative ? To us it seems like a good idea to give people a common space in which they can share and evaluate works.
- Bulletproof. I guess you all know Bulletproof, we have only one question concerning it. Have you already discussed why its website section "Templates based on bulletproof" stays empty ?
If so which were your conclusions ?
Thanks for reading, I hope this post may be useful and that we will be able to discuss its content.
And happy new year and 2.0
We are a a group of 3 students currently attending a course about the design of collaboration in digital environment. onli proposed us to work on Serendipity project and so we did.
First, we tried to understand how the Serendipity community organizes itself and how you are working.
This graph represents what we understood. It is obvisouly lacking a lot of information but it has been done mainly in order to help us find a subject.
On this graph, you can see that a lot of arrows are aiming to "Themes/Templates". As we are interesting in collaboration processes we focused on that subject.
We started studying the submitting themes process with the following idea in mind : editing or creating a theme and sharing it can be a first step to join the community.
We searched the different websites related to Serendipity wondering how can we create or modify a theme and how could this new theme be shared with the community ?
The official documentation about templates is a good start. Maybe a too technical one. We haven't been able to find something like a beginner's guide. For example, this page could link to some step-by-step tutorial to help visualize what all the technical terms are related too. At the bottom of the page there's a small paragraph concerning contribution but sadly this one seems to link to a non-existing document.
The Theme section in the forum is also a good source of information. You are always available to answer user questions. However it seems to us that some of the questions (once they have been answered) could be part of a FAQ rather than "hidden" in the forum.
The second step is now to find a way to share our theme.
The showcase part of the forum can be used to share themes but it's more about presenting a blog than sharing knowledge and work. So we looked for something else.
They're have been initiatives developed to support the sharing of Serendipity themes :
- Serendipity-Template : this website has been announced on the Serendipity official blog and we haven't been able to find any other post or link on the Serendipity website stating that this website exist. It is now deserted (the last theme has been posted in 2010). One problem with this website is that it is "unofficial" but uses the graphical aspect of the official Serendipity websites which may lead some users to think that the Serendipity theme community has disappeared.
What do you think about that initiative ? To us it seems like a good idea to give people a common space in which they can share and evaluate works.
- Bulletproof. I guess you all know Bulletproof, we have only one question concerning it. Have you already discussed why its website section "Templates based on bulletproof" stays empty ?
If so which were your conclusions ?
Thanks for reading, I hope this post may be useful and that we will be able to discuss its content.
And happy new year and 2.0