I knew about the pony. My point is that a strong and recognizable visual element like that one, will help give the site some character. People might say: "just search for python web framework, it's the site with the flying pony". After some time everything related to django will include the pony. Some of it already is.
The pony is perfect because the community already knows it, uses it and likes it. I don't think it will scare away enterprise adoption, but I might be wrong. I don't know the whole back story on how, who and when the pony was chosen. So, yeah we don't have to use the pony but I think it will be fighting against what has already been happening naturally. We have the opportunity to embrace and officialize the mascot that was chosen organically by the community. My 2 cents. G. On Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Andre Terra wrote: > "No ponies" was one of the guidelines in the previous thread. > > Also, I miss the official typography. > > > Cheers, > AT > > > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Adam "Cezar" Jenkins <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Horst Gutmann <[email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Giovanni Collazo <[email protected] > > > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > So, I spend a few hours working on the re-design following Idan's > > > > Guidelines. Any feedback and further direction from the core team would > > > > be > > > > greatly appreciated. > > > > > > > > G. > > > > > > > > > > Hi :-) > > > > > > Looks nice! A few points though: > > > > > > * Do we really need the pony? > > > > > > * IMO the "Meet Django" section might be better one step up since the > > > line "Django makes it easier..." might not be enough to quickly > > > explain what Django actually is. > > > > > > * "Meet Django" and "The Django Framework" sections have more or less > > > the same objective and should IMO be combined to make it possible to > > > put the community section slightly higher in the structure. > > > > > > * Regarding prominent actions: Perhaps you could place some action > > > buttons where the pony is right now. Like something for developers, > > > something for novices and something for project managers. > > > > I think removing the Pony for an action item will clutter the space. I like > > the pony, but if it's decided to not go with it, putting action items in > > there will clutter it in my opinion. > > > > > > > > > > * For the quickstart I'm personally not really a fan of lightboxes. > > > They should provide supplementary information, not primary info. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Horst > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "Django developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected] > > > (mailto:django-developers%[email protected]). > > > 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 [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > (mailto:django-developers%[email protected]). > > 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 [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
