Hello,

Thanks for the feedback. I have feature matched the new website with the old,
added linux support and implemented a quick download button on the hero 
homepage. Now a code cleanup and refactoring is in order.

You can always view the website here:
[1] https://thorbust.github.io/openoffice-website/  
<https://thorbust.github.io/openoffice-website/>

And find the repository here:
[2] https://github.com/thorbust/openoffice-website 
<https://github.com/thorbust/openoffice-website>

Regards,
George



> On 29 Nov 2018, at 08:20, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi George,
> 
> I echo what Andrea writes. I am currently migrating the OpenOffice forums to 
> new VMs and then need to plan additional upgrades.
> 
> I was the one who did the bulk of the Apache CMS work with OpenOffice.org and 
> understand exactly how the pages are built from templates and css. When I 
> have more time in December I can look at how to convert the pages. We’ve kept 
> all language sites including over 100 languages in case a community ever 
> returns. (Mongolian has some nice Yurt icons.)
> 
> Files are either in the original pre-Apache html or in Markdown.
> 
> We should evaluate whatever generation system we decide to use to figure out 
> the best way to preserve as much as possible.
> 
> You might get a handle on the structure from making use of the instructions 
> on this page. [1]
> 
> Regards,
> Dave
> 
> [1] 
> https://openoffice.apache.org/website-local.html#using-the-apache-cms-bookmarklet-simpler-method
> 
> 
>> On Nov 27, 2018, at 12:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> George Karalis wrote:
>>> All I am asking now is if I could have access to a staging 
>>> environment(maybe in
>>> another url, as I don't want to mess with your current staging site, as  
>>> you may want
>>> to make changes there), so I can make those changes and having a fully 
>>> working and
>>> tested homepage within this week, that we can move live.
>> 
>> Thanks, George! As you've probably seen from other conversations, we are on 
>> a very tight schedule at the moment since we need to move our old sites to 
>> new servers this week; this is why nobody had the time to help you with the 
>> site.
>> 
>> Since I see it's just HTML and assets, we could try hosting it at
>> http://www.openoffice.org/new
>> or similar, provided you use relative URLs for assets.
>> 
>> You will need some patience; I like your draft more than the current 
>> homepage and I think it undeniably looks more modern, but we'll have to 
>> feature-match the current home (e.g., it suggests the native-lang site when 
>> available) and some of the choices we had made, like not to have a prominent 
>> Donate button, reflected mailing list discussions back at the time. 
>> Everything can be reversed, but it needs to go through a discussion. 
>> Fortunately, discussions on this list are now much shorter and to-the-point 
>> than they used to be a few years ago, so I hope we can have the new homepage 
>> online relatively soon.
>> 
>> Next step: if you manage to adapt the JS so that it suggests the native-lang 
>> site correctly, I can then put it at a convenience URL for testing (or we 
>> can continue to review it on Github). Some of us will very likely be busy 
>> with the Wiki and Forum upgrades this week, but some feedback should come.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Andrea.
>> 
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