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>> * Kay is working, I think, on the style guide. It's pretty >> important, as I would like to create templates for project leads to >> use. These would specify color, CSS, useful javascripts, etc. The >> basic philosophy is pragmatic but focused on making sure we comply >> with standards and use CSS. >> >For who is this style guide targeted? Project page maintainers or as a >resource for the whole community in general? And can we do the style >guide if the design isn't completely finished yet? How do we make sure >the style guide is being used? Targeted to project page members, mainly, though others in community, too. But mainly for former. Can we do style now? Pretty much, yes, as we are set to use the same table colors and layout and so on. And the design will never be completely finished ;-) . How do we make sure it is used? We don't, and it won't be. What I do now is point new project leads to the style guide every time I create a project, and I am the one who mainly creates projects. > >It seems that we need a qualified web designer also with knowledge on >JavaScript to work on the guide. Everything has to be taken into >account. Of course. Kay is pretty qualified in this area but is still not an expert. Surely there are on this list expert javascript people? If not, we can leave that area as under development. > >> * Update the download javascript page.... I'd like to randomize the >> selection of servers within a country and then offer that random >> server to users invisibly. Kind of like the way the other guys do >> it :-) We do not have load balancing among our archipelago, so are >> at a disadvantage. But I get a lot of mail on webmasters (Jacqueline >> and I are the webmasters) from users panicked by choice. >> >Why go for JavaScript, sounds more like some server-side scripting >task to me? The website application we use, called "SourceCast," is of a piece and maintained by CollabNet. It is a proprietary application and our ability to modify its elements limited. Having server-side scripting would be very much desired for many things but they are not ours to have, at least not right now. [snip] >> * Support page. There is a small group working on updating the >> support page, led by Gerry, Diane, Jacqueline. It's a pretty >> important page and will get even more important. It should list more >> or less what it lists now, but better ;-) >> >Where is this updating process taking place? I'm curious. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] >> * Sponsors page. I created a draft of a sponsors page a while ago >> and would like to move ahead with it. It's here, >> <http://website.openoffice.org/tryouts/my/louis/sponsors.htm> and >> would be linked from About us, as well as Distribution projects... >> What I would love is to see if we can improve it. >> >Ok, one thing. Reduce the pixel size of all the buttons to, say, 2/3 >of the current. Then make the Markt und Technik, O'Reilly, Sun and >Linux Enterprise logos at least six or seven times smaller in >filesize. Then add alternative texts to them. > Okay, I'll work on it later on and pass it by here again for review. Thanks. >> * Sitemap. John McCreesh currently maintains the sitemap pretty much >> singlehandedly. I'm sure he could do with help ;-) Also, I'd like >> to be able to add a feature to that page so that users could rate >> the consultant (if not cdrom distro), in eBay style. Is this >> possible to do with our technology (ie, javascript)? >> >Sounds like a full-time job. There are many things like that, here. :-/ > >>> >>>That's about everything for now... >>> >>>Miikka Leskinen miles_fin >>> >> >The first thing I planned to do was to go through the homepage code >and make changes that would be improvements according to my skills, >and send patch proposals. But currently I don't have access to the >latest code, and WinHTTrack doesn't seem to work on sc40. I did >download the whole sc40 by hand the day before yesterday to look at it >offline, but now it was updated again. I can give you access to sc40, as well as website project. Let me know directly. > >>>ps. And no, I don't have a blog currently. >> >> Yay. Neither do I, though I am pressed, daily, to have one. >> >Everyone has a blog nowadays. It's like the online resource of you as >a person. Your URI. That's why it's always good to include an address >to your blog if you introduce yourself somewhere. I'm under the >pressure, too. > >It wasn't impossible to predict back in 2002 that, hey, that must be >the future of the Internet! I would have blogged that. ;) I don't think it is the future. I think it is a fad. Pretty soon, those who can write will continue to write, those who cannot will be ignored, and then we'll be back to where we started from: columnists. And that has been the case since the 18th century, at least. :-) > best, Louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
