Re: Website

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 08:58:55PM +0200, Quim Gil wrote:
> I'm definitely interested being part of the wgo revamp. I keep offering
> myself to lead this effort if everybody is happy with this and there is
> an agreement on some basic concepts:

You'd be pretty perfect.  It requires one motivated person to get 
this done right.  When you have one, you tend to gather like minded
people..  That has been my experience.

> - Move from CVS to CMS in order to open and ease the development and
> maintenance of the website. This CMS would be Drupal unless someone
> comes with a better candidate during the planning process.

Agreed.  I just hope that we have strong support for multi-lingual
pages.  We'd like to see users of divserse backgrounds be able to read
w.g.o in the language of their choice.  In fact, I think this kind of 
focus will drive adaption of GNOME in non-english speaking countries.

> - I agree the revamp should be limited to wgo, but we need to have
> something like a general plan, an agreed horizon, since some decisions
> made on the wgo redesign will affect the GNOME subsites.

Something similar to Tango where we have a style guide?

> This is more or less how I see the situation. Once the revamped
> guadec.org is launched as v1.0 I will be able to find the time needed to
> start working seriously on wgo. 

You da man. :-)

sri