I can throw in some UX designing if you want On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: > Will there be any specific discussion about what's wrong with the current > site? You two seem to agree something needs to be done, but haven't > mentioned anything specific. > > --Ned. > > > On 4/28/2012 4:13 AM, Dana Woodman wrote: > > Great to know they're is some interest in it and agreement that it is in > need :) > > I'm very interested in the prospect of redesigning the site and would love > to chat more about it. I feel like I owe the Django community something for > all that it has given me (including the job I currently have!). I'd love to > talk scope and other factors so I have a clear idea of what would be > involved. > > Is this a good forum for this type of discussion or should we get in touch > elsewhere to talk? You can get in touch with me > here: http://danawoodman.com/ > > -- > Dana Woodman > d...@danawoodman.com > http://www.danawoodman.com > > On Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > > Hi Dana, > > I completely agree. I've been trying to get a redesign of djangoproject.com > going for quite some time under the auspices of the Django Foundation. As > you can see from the lack of changes, you can see that I haven't been > particularly successful :-( > > The fundamental problem is that we have plenty of coding talent at our > disposal, but not as much design talent. That's not to say that there aren't > many talented designers in our community -- there are -- it's just that > they're all very busy. We've approached several people in the Django design > community asking them to help out, and some have even made done some initial > work. However, redesign of a high-profile site like djangoproject.com is a > big job, and nobody has been able to spare the time to bring the job to > completion. > > So - at this point I'm open to any offers. I want to avoid design by > committee -- ideally, I would like to pass this off to a single person (or a > small group) and give them complete control over design process. I'm not > completely sure how to organise who gets this role -- suggestions are > welcome. > > If you (or anyone else) is interested, drop me a line and I can give you the > design brief we've been working with. > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) > > > > On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 3:22 PM, Dana Woodman wrote: > > So now that Django is being moved to Git/Github (which is awesome!), maybe > it would be a good time to think about a revamped home page for the project > ala djangoproject.com (http://djangoproject.com)? > > Obviously this is no small undertaking and would be potentially contentions > as to what would be the proper path, but I feel (and I don't think I'm > alone) that djangoproject.com (http://djangoproject.com) could use a bit of > a facelift. > > I have some idea of my own as to how this could be accomplished and I'm sure > there are a ton of others out there with great ideas as well. Maybe we could > open up some discussion on this idea? > > Forgive me if this has been proposed before as I'm new to the group! > > Cheers, > Dana > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/-/g8ngEnVG_EsJ. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com > (mailto:django-developers@googlegroups.com). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > (mailto:django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
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