Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:39:21 -0700 From: "Murray Stokely" <murray@stokely.org> To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Adding visual representations of our structured XML content Message-ID: <2a7894eb0804192239i5aeff7ecn323fe4643a01a94d@mail.gmail.com>
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There is a lot of low hanging fruit with the XML content that we could be presenting on the website. For example, * The events.xml file includes a <location> tag for each entry, and we could provide a map representation of upcoming events, or show how the distribution of FreeBSD-related events looks like on a map each year and how it has changed over time. (I added a basic map of upcoming and past events at the top of http://www.freebsd.org/events/events.html today). * The usergroups.xml file could be cleaned up to include more precise location information, then heatmaps of current usergroup activity, or graphs of active usergroups by continent or country over time could be plotted. * New committer and release announcement information from news.xml could be annotated more specifically and then plotted as a graph showing the rate of these activities over the last N years. Of course just because we can do something doesn't mean we should, but I do think for things with a geographical component like usergroups a map is a natural complement to a huge list with hundreds of entries. There are also a number of places where we could be presenting more interesting data in a purely text form, and I think at the very least a lot of this data would be interesting to see for those interested in metrics about the health of the FreeBSD community. Thoughts on adding maps for upcoming events and usergroups to the web pages? Any objections to this? - Murray
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