Self-introduction: Mel Chua

[Mel Chua]

Hi! I'm Mel. This is my current mental model of our website, which you 
may have seen on Planet Fedora.

http://blog.melchua.com/2009/06/09/fedora-website-graphical-notes/

I'm still learning my way around, so I'm going to make tons of mistakes! 
Please correct me! Right now I'm trying to get lots of data dumps, 
perspectives on how the site's going, how it could be improved, trying 
to find stuff to hack on...

Experience-wise, I'm fluent in (X)HTML and CSS, though cross-browser 
compatibility issues make me Very Sad. I occasionally put up basic sites 
for friends as a combination hobby/because-I'm-the-"computer-person" 
thing. I've been playing on and off with it since high school when my 
idea of "good design" involved a tiled background of a Star Wars X-wing 
fighter and the <marquee> tag. (My taste has improved considerably since 
then.)

Anti-skillz: My sketching ability and sense of space and color (or lack 
thereof, particularly for the last one) can be seen in the image linked 
to above, and I understand how javascript-based UIs and db-backed 
webapps are made, but am not particularly gifted at making them, and 
I've learned just enough about usability to be dangerous.

Skillz: What I'm actually pretty good at is being articulately confused, 
and at breaking things - being a sort of Perpetual Newbie From Hell who 
inexplicably submits good bug reports. I blame my brief stint as a QA 
engineer for that. I can also be a Mediawiki fiend, having spent the 
past 2 years or so building up, weeding, and admin-ing 
http://wiki.laptop.org. I try to ask interesting questions and to not 
get distracted by shiny stuff, though the success rate of the latter 
is... a work in progress.

A question, since I'm following down the 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites/Join page: when is the next 
meeting? According to 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites/Meetings#Time_and_Place, the next 
meeting is in 2008 - so I'm curious whether there are still meetings 
held, and if not, if folks would be interested in gathering for one on 
IRC sometime this week or early next.

Seems like a good time to look at our site, since plenty of new users 
are hitting it and giving us potentially interesting data on the kinds 
of things that could be improved. ;)

--Mel