What say y'all to starting a contest or something to do a site redesign for the Lucene/Solr websites at: http://lucene.a.o, http://lucene.a.o/java and http://lucene.a.o/solr. The site looks like it came from 1998 and doesn't reflect well on Lucene/Solr, IMO. Besides, it's a pain to manage w/ Forrest, which seems to be dead anyway.
Here's what I propose: We copy what Open For Biz did (which Mahout also did) by putting together a nice, modern looking landing page for each of those sites and then everything else is powered by the new CMS that infra is rolling out (or Confluence). The Confluence page would be "themed" to look like the landing page, but maybe not exactly. Lucene release docs would be moved to CMS/Confluence and locked down w/ committer access only. Other pages would be locked down if they are pointed to by the main site. All other content would be as is, ala wiki. So, what about the contest? First, we need a prize. I'll chip in $50 towards a prize for the best design. Who will match/contribute? I say we follow the guidelines at http://wiki.apache.org/solr/LogoContest in terms of voting, process, etc. If others agree, I'll put up a wiki and JIRA issue and then we can solicit contributions. -Grant -------------------------- Grant Ingersoll http://lucenerevolution.org Apache Lucene/Solr Conference, Boston Oct 7-8
