Re: Changing the presentation of new group announcements

On 27 Feb 2013, at 11:21 AM, Suresh Chitturi wrote:

> Probably a link to the overview or 'about' page of the CG would be helpful with these announcements.
> Just providing the join link is a bit inconvenient since you would have to login to go further and can give users and impression that you MUST join before you proceed any further.

Aha, now I understand.

I have been looking at the public blog post (which does _not_ have a join link and should). I was not looking
at the announcement to public-council.

I agree there should be a link to the group's home page from the public-council announcement.

(Yay, I understand! :)

Ian

> 
> Regards,
> Suresh
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ian Jacobs [mailto:ij@w3.org]
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 11:12 AM
>> To: Josh Soref
>> Cc: w3 public-council
>> Subject: Re: Changing the presentation of new group announcements
>> 
>> 
>> On 27 Feb 2013, at 11:02 AM, Josh Soref wrote:
>> 
>>>> With your support, W3C has launched the VoiceXML Community Group
>> and
>>>> invites you to join the group.
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.w3.org/community/vxmlcg/join > Thank you,
>>>> 
>>>> W3C Community Development Team
>>> 
>>> 1. The join link requires a w3 log in, which is annoying.
>> 
>> People need an account to join the group. We prompt them to log in as part of
>> the join process. If they are already logged in we don't prompt them.
>> 
>>> If you strip /join from the link, you can see a public page.
>> 
>> Yes (just not the same page).
>> 
>> 
>>> 2. I believe that the process to create a CG involves some entities saying
>> "Yes", I really wish that the announcement included them: "This CG was
>> formed at the request of < list of entities >"
>> 
>> We do say that in the approval announcement. See for instance [1], which
>> says:
>> 
>> "The following people supported its creation: Christopher Bader, Jeffrey
>> Sonstein, Bev Corwin, JongHo Shin, Shyam S. Agrawal."
>> 
>> Ian
>> 
>> 
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/community/blog/2013/02/27/call-for-participation-in-
>> voicexml-community-group/
>> 
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