Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
I'm certain there are hurdles, but I think on the whole they are there by accident rather than design.
Why certainly. I have never seen any on-line community that had hurdles by design. Hurdles are usually due to the fact that the people who design the website/community/whatever already know how everything works. As an example, I also participate in the OpenOffice.org community. The website is *impossible* to use. To be able to get anywhere you need to already have fairly in-depth knowledge of the structural organization of the project. Sure, the site makes perfect sense to those who designed it. That's because it's organized in a way that reflects the internal bureocracy, not the questions a visitor is likely to have in mind when he arrives.
It turns out that there are a couple of introductory Wiki pages already: http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/HaskellNewbie http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/HaskellDemo
Thanks!
It'd be great if someone would like to improve them in the light of this thread. (Anyone can do this.)
I'll take a look. I'm handy with documentation and usability (though not a trained expert in either). Cheers, Daniel -- /\/`) http://oooauthors.org /\/_/ http://opendocumentfellowship.org /\/_/ \/_/ I am not over-weight, I am under-tall. /