Ok. I see. Good to hear that the current proposal is almost final. No website is never perfect, I've learned that during my time as a web designer. The most painful thing is that many times you submit a website which you may regard as heavily beta quality. ;)
Your post really sums it up, I think. Miikka Leskinen (login name: miles_fin) On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:02:35 -0800, "Kay Schenk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Miika and Leo...re Maarten's reply (I've snipped a LOT out) and would > like to add my comments as well (I'm co-lead for the website project but > admittedly I have not been very active at participating lately due to > other pressing matters). > > As indicated in this message, the current "design" we are working > on/toward is located at: > > https://www.sc40.sfo.collab.net/ > > Not that I want to dissuade you from coming up with and formulating your > own ideas--certainly we welcome them and I'll take a look at what you've > got when I get some time--but it would be beneficial for you to look at > the mail archives on all this recently--i.e. the discussion that > pertains to the website revision. > > What you and others need to understand it that changing a site like OOo, > or I dare say, ANY site with so many contributors and users, is NOT > something that can be done quickly or easily, and not something that we > do say once a month. > > The current proposal on the table is practically finalized. It needs > some minor editing changes at this point and will likely go into > "produciton" sometime toward the end of the month when OOo 2.0 is > announced. > > Like it or not, this was the design that was decided upon. Please do > take a look at it, sign up to the sc40 discussion list if you like and > give some input to Maarten who is basically coordinating actual changes, > along with Christian Lohmaier. > > Thanks. > > :murb: [maarten brouwers] wrote: > > Hi Miika, > > > <--snipped--> > > > > > I would suggest collaborating more on what we've got, and continue from > > there. But who am I saying this? There are people on the list heavily > > disagreeing with my opinion on how the homepage should work. And this is > > obvious, a zillion people is a zillion opinions. Well currently I am the > > 'leading' the design of the current sc40 draft. That I am doing this is > > due to a discussion at the project leads list (which is not public, not > > even for viewing :( ). My proposal was a competing design with that of > > Matthew and a drawed site proposal of Jacqueline. > > > > > -- > ====================================================================== > Kay Schenk ph: 530-898-5339 > Applications Development and Enterprise Design fax: 530-898-4851 > CSU, Chico > Web Coordinator > > "Integrity is the essence of everything successful." > -- R. Buckminster Fuller > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
