yup, completely understandable. I have contacted the people from developmentseed that originally offered to help with the new website prior to sending this email and I have yet to hear anything back..... so I'm not real hopeful and it's time for us to make a move. So we're starting with mockups. If you have a backway to contact them and they're still willing we're more than willing... Thanks, Ian
2010/12/1 Jarosław Foksa <jarek@...2504...>
I remember that back in 2008 we had simillar discussions - Chris was advocating Django, I wanted Drupal, there was a lot of talk but we ended up with the old site.
Development Seed (http://developmentseed.org/) was offering volunteer work on new inkscape.org site few months ago. Is this proposal still actual? They are one of the best shops you could find - perhaps it would be best to let them lead the development if they agree so.
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Ian Caldwell <inchosting@...400...> wrote:
hello,
It's been a good long while since I've emailed the mailing list I am a
part
of the server management involving inkscape and have been for
approximately
4+ years. I am writing you today for 2 reasons.
Our current site is terrible, I'm sorry but there is no chance of just brushing over it. I know there have been a fair number of people in the
past
2 years who have submitted website mockup ideas and we've had contests
but
no one has ever followed through. Which I'll take partial blame for it. Things are just scattered every which way I wanted to update you on the status of the Test suite, Osuosl is
currently
in the process of setting up the ability to run test suites so that we
can
test the SVG building more efficiently. So stay tuned for more info on
this
in the near future.
Anyway back to problem 1. Here's how I think we can best solve this
problem.
We're going to break the website into different categories and duties.
UI (mockups) (*ARTIST*/PROGRAMMERS*)
Ability to make mockups of how you think the website should look. After we pick yours we will request to see the top couple in HTML/CSS
Artwork for the website (*ARTIST*)
Ability to develop / sharpen logos as well as various buttons etc as
needed
Drupal Modules (*PROGRAMMERS*)
Skills required
Knowledge of Mysql/PHP/JS and HTML Knowledge or ability to learn how drupal works
Documentation (*WRITERS*)
Skills
Moderate knowledge and ability to update and port existing content over
to
the new site.
Translation
We need people who specialize in various languages to port content once completed into the various languages.
So what's wrong with the current design? a lot, it's way too cluttered
and
disorganized not to mention you click wiki you go to a whole different navigation and sub site. That is just a pain to deal with as a user. So
if
you have skills in 1 of the above 5 categories, please contact me or the list directly and we'll assemble the a team and get this going! let me
know
what you think.... Thanks, Ian "Inc" C.
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