The website looks good and it's working fine in brad terms. I believe GUADEC 2006 is doing so well by now mostly because of the website. But there are many little thing that need fixes, improvements, evolution and updates. - We have content related tasks: misspelygns ;) , improvements in the navigation... good English and common sense needing, plus a couple of some very basic Drupal tips (i.e. how to add/remove an item from a menu, how to create a new block...). There are no specific bugs, someone needs to see for herself, fix the small things and suggest solutions for the rest. Also read comments like http://guadec.org/GUADEC2006/schedule#comment-172 , think the easy solution behind most user requests and apply it. - We have some typical webmaster tasks that require just a bit of XHTML, CSS, PHP or MySQL, no big deal really (if you have the skills: I haven't). Most of these issues are in Bugzilla - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=website&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&component=guadec.org - and we try to have there any new problem someone detects. All of them are little tasks involving no more than 1-2h each, but the current web team seems to be completely overwhelmed. John Hwang aka tavon did a wonderful work with http://guadec.org but then suddenly vanished, and I hope nothing bad has happened to him (he won the web theme prize, he has free travel from the US and accommodation & registration covered as well, he is not answering my emails asking for his flight details etc...) DEPENDENCIES - You need permissions, depending on the tasks. Those that are web based can be provided by Quim or Alberto (aka Devin). Some would need ssh access to the GNOME servers but we can have a workaround: Devin would give you the code & data you need and you work locally on the bug, then Devin applies patch/fix. LINKED TASKS If you want more, there is more. - We need to prepare the website to be useful during the conference days. We also need to think of guadec.org on July 1st and onwards: it is so typical to find dead websites of events, left just like a ghost town when the enemy troops are about to invade you. Someone needs to think about this, improvisation is great but it has intrinsical risks and during the event we won't be able to react quickly (or yes, if you have thought about an emergency plan). - guadec.org is a website that will survive GUADEC 2006: we won't build a new one for GUADEC 2007. In fact, it has been design to incorporate other GNOME events just changing some little bits after GUADEC 2006 is finished. In fact it is a seed test to see how good Drupal can work as a CMS for the www.gnome.org revamp. We need web developers and guadec.org is a very tangible and useful way to start contributing. -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org
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