Hi Sophie, David, Christian, Bernhard, Italo, Charles, Michael, Olivier, Tom, Sebastian, Drew, ... :-)
Without re-stating too many points, I'd like to say that I second the main thoughts by Christian, Sophie, Bernhard, Italo (and some more). Thanks for sharing those in detail; I think it greatly helps to understand how the TDF, serving as a guide, envisions the work within the LibreOffice community. Since Bernhard referred to the Design Team, I'd like to comment one item ... Am Samstag, den 08.01.2011, 03:37 +0100 schrieb Bernhard Dippold: [...] > Christian Lohmaier schrieb: > > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:33 AM, David Nelson<[email protected]> > > wrote: [...] > > > >> - one person from Design, Christoph Noack, with author powers, to > >> consult with about buttons and images. I don't otherwise see the > >> Design team playing much of a role in the running of the website, > >> beyond ensuring compliance with the graphic charter (which is > >> principally imposed by the theme). Since the website grows and gets more complex, we are happy to do much more than the "graphic charter". The Design Team is meant to offer "Visual Design" (I think this is what you are referring to) and "User Experience Design". Within OOo, we've described the latter one with "Usability, Productivity, Enjoyment". So here are some things we do with regard to websites: * Analyzing "visual guidance" and "distraction" on websites (e.g. the current LibO site moves the attention away from the text towards the feeds; David, like the graphical analysis I've sent to you) * Designing "across pages" and "on page" structures to ensure good navigation (the following link is a "on page" proposal once made for OOo application descriptions) http://picasaweb.google.com/noack.christoph/OpenOfficeOrg#5302013710939795442 * Analyzing how user interact with the website to improve it over time (thanks to Christian we might have / already got Piwik *yeah*) ... and other stuff to make the user feel comfortable when browsing the site. At the end, we compete with other high quality commercial and non-commercial sites (even to catch the attention of developers). [...] > In my eyes these areas (and possible candidates for contacts - didn't > ask them by now if they would serve as contacts) would be: > > Infrastructure > (Christian / Erich) > > WebDesign and UX > (Ivan / Christoph) Personally, I'm happy to help in any case. And, I'm sure that Ivan will also be happy to share his experience. > Textual Content > (David / NN) Bernhard, I hope all the people who want to contribute to the website (as you said, we mainly serve as contacts ...) feel comfortable with these ideas. Personally, I'm confident that our community will provide a great web experience. And since I already flawed this mail with some links, maybe another interesting reading. In 2008 there was a website refresh for OpenOffice.org. Some description how Website Team, UX Team, Visual Design, Native Lang, and Accessibility worked together to refine the (most important) front page: http://uxopenofficeorg.blogspot.com/2009/02/website-refresh-and-ux.html And related: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Website/What% 27s_New/2008_Refresh > Thanks to you, David (and Christian and Ivan), there is a website (and > will be in two days) in a quality, that allows us to step back a bit and > start working in a more collaborative way. > > This goal would not have been reached without your tremendous work! ++1 :-) Looking forward :-) [...] Cheers, Christoph -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
