New website for gyrus

[Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra alumnos utalca cl>]

Hi,

As some of you may have already noticed, http://gyrus.gnome.cl silently
disappeared. I realized of this about one week ago, but don't really
know how long has been since the site is down (the fact that google
doesn't even list the site tells me that it's been a while, sigh).

As a consequence of this, all the tarballs which weren't published in
the GNOME FTP server[1], and the few Debian packages we had, are lost,
together with the website, and screenshots. Cheers.

Fortunately, I've tagged all the releases I've made in the CVS
repository, so I can still generate the old packages and am planning to
upload them to the GNOME FTP server. Therefore, there is no real lost on
this website abduction, and it'll be only a matter of time.

Now, let's be honest. The old website was really ugly and too 90's. So
this is the perfect excuse to sit my ass and write a new site with a
more GNOME'ish interface. Here is where I need you to help me, because I
am pretty bad at web design. I can only visualize what I want for the
website, but I'm too dumb with Gimp to do something really pretty. Would
you like to be the hero of the day?

So, this is what I'm planning to do:

1. Write a simple website based in the traditional GNOME stylesheet,
using only HTML and CSS. You can see many examples of these websites
here[2][3][4].

2. Take some screenshots of the latest version (0.3.6) to be added in
the webpage. The screenshots should be taken using the Clearlooks theme,
and should show the main features of the program (saving sessions,
setting quotas, editing acl's, deleting orphaned mailboxes, generating
overquota reports, etc).

3. Generate and upload the old tarballs to the GNOME FTP server, so they
don't get lost again.

4. Find a proper place to upload the website. I'm thinking of
www.gnome.org/projects/ for this, but still have to think well about it.

If you are skilled on CSS, HTML, or Gimp, then I ask you to please help
me with (1). If you are proficient at taking screenshots, then please
help me with (2). I'll take care of (3) and (4), and I'll buy the beers
the next time we meet.

I've cc'ed to the GNOME Chile mailing list because I know there's a
bunch of great artists there and a lot of new blood looking for funny
ways to contribute to our community. Guys, I need you now! :-) 

If anyone is interested on helping, please subscribe to
gyrus-list gnome org [5] and tell us what are you willing to do, to
avoid duplication of work.

Thank you!

Claudio

[1] http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gyrus/
[2] http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/
[3] http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/
[4] http://www.gnome.org/~pvillavi/hipo/
[5] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gyrus-list
-- 
Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra alumnos utalca cl>