Talk:Preparing Cooperation web update

Mako's Comments

One general point first:

I think we should be general about what we do and who we are on the text of the page. This page has not, and probably will not, be updated more than once a year or so (if history is a guide, it will be much less often). The group and its specific activities are likely to change quite a lot each year and I think it would be best to create pages that does not become inaccurate again very quickly.

Right now, the page is sort of "automatically" updated when events or talks happen or Berkman publishes announcements or blog posts that are tagged as cooperation. This part of the page sort of maintains itself with no input from us and relying on this as much as possible going forward will make everyone's job much easier. :)

Here are some specific suggestions:

1. Remove the list of people with biographical descriptions (which change) that we have now replace it with a list of people who have participated at any point, listed alphabetically. The column on the right side can be set to automatically include folks with Berkman pages on the list and to link to Berkman pages where they exist. Adding people to this list going forward should be very easy.

2. I'm not thrilled about having a page on the Berkman website for the weekly workshop. That page is also likely to fall out of date and, more importantly, we're are not actively trying to recruit people from the public to the group. I think simply mentioning it on the "About" page -- and maybe linking to the wiki page from there -- will be enough.