| RE: [higgins-dev] Higgins Project in General |
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+1. Tony, in all fairness, this topic has
received a lot of discussion both on the list and on the weekly calls over the past
few months. Numerous links were sent to the draft pages/graphics. Yes, Higgins is about much more than information
cards. But information cards are the unifying metaphor for a user’s
interaction with Higgins components, so its a pretty good candidate, at least
for the present, as the lead metaphor for the outside world to wrap their head
around what Higgins is about and the types of problems it is solving. I suspect we will be constantly iterating
on Higgins positioning as the project keeps evolving and deployments increase. =Drummond From:
higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Sermersheim I
brought this up on the last dev call and also on the IRC. The
problem is that it's really hard to describe *what it really is* without
either: a)
being so wordy that no one wants to read it b)
being so abstract that no one understands it so
I think the authors went for the most understandable, accessible language at
the cost of hiding all that Higgins is. BTW,
no one has reverted my awesome IRC topic. It still says "Higgins -
Open Source Uber Identity Framework" :) Looking
at the new home page, I would say I would strongly disagree that this page
accurately represents the project, as we are not all about information cards at
all, that is one subset component. It seems that changes are made w/o
consulting the project team which is very discouraging. Can we go back to the
old home page which more accurately reflects the project goals so that folks
visiting the site have a better idea what Higgins is all about and don't get
the idea that this is just about Information Cards (as its not). |