New website! ... not yet, really (Fwd: [28303] trunk/www)

[Weissmann Markus]

I personally like the services that Apple provides for us via  
macosforge; with this installation we do have someone who is updating  
our software and caring about our server.
Therefore I'd rather prefer to try to modify the macosforge provided  
framework to meet our needs, at least as far as this is possible. We  
can still add a ports page and a documentation subdirectory and keep  
the wordpress installation etc.


regards,

-Markus

On 28.08.2007, at 03:12, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:

>
> 	Good evening everyone!
>
> 	I am most glad to announce that thanks to the work I've been  
> putting into the PortIndex2MySQL.tcl script lately, I was able to  
> recover our old web site back from the dead as a natural  
> progression to the former, as you may have seen from my recent  
> commit r28303. The result is posted at my web server, http:// 
> apollo.homeunix.net/macports, reflecting the state of the current  
> trunk/www dir in svn at any moment.
>
> 	Nevertheless, what you'll see there is no more than the bringing  
> up to speed of the old content with current information, but it is  
> otherwise the same site we used to have back in OpenDarwin days  
> (the "not yet" part of this message's title, unfortunately). While  
> at it I also restructured the sources a bit, moving files here and  
> there to have a cleaner layout, only editing the English pages and  
> moving all other languages into a 'localized' dir, though.
>
> 	The really important part, however, is the revival of the  
> ports.php page, which many users have been craving for ever since  
> we moved to Mac OS Forge. I'm feeding this page with live  
> information off our ports tree by running the PortIndex2MySQL.tcl  
> script locally, though not automated yet (so lag is to be expected).
>
> 	Surely many things will seem broken (links maybe --surely for any  
> language other than English--) and/or outdated, certainly including  
> the now aging visual & structural design. Kevin Van Vechten assured  
> me we could host the ports.php page and new guide on Mac OS Forge  
> servers, but I'm more than sure that only from looking at the site  
> it'll be quite obvious that we need a new and revamped design,  
> short of a complete overhaul.
>
> 	In a nutshell, the purpose of this message is to call for a  
> discussion on what we should do with our web site, which is in  
> desperate need of some love, blood and new air. I'm even thinking  
> about calling for an open contest so that anyone can submit new  
> designs and logos for the project to adapt, extending the  
> invitation to our entire user base: users mailing list, irc  
> channel, wordpress post, wiki page, maybe even inviting WebKit  
> people --who naturally have a thing for designing beautiful  
> websites-- and who knows what else... something akin to NetBSD's  
> logo redesign contest some years ago. Even though the rules for  
> such contest would have to be very clearly defined and the entire  
> process might be somewhat involved, I have to admit I'm developing  
> quite a strong inclination for this approach; if anything, it'll  
> surely help spice up interest and involvement with the project from  
> our user base.
>
> 	So to sum up, it would be great to define a roadmap for a revamped  
> web presence before devoting any more energy to what we currently  
> have. Please don't be shy to post your opinions so that we can all  
> start working toward finding the resources we need to make this  
> happen. I am more than happy to lead this effort both in planning  
> and coordination, but one mandatory requirement before moving  
> forward is knowing if I'll have anything to lead ;-)
>
> 	Regards,...
>
>
> -jmpp
>
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Markus W. Weissmann
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