One note: I like the current website theming. Mimicking it would be functional yet good looking for a first draft.
2008/8/5, Djihed Afifi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Salam, > > > Ossama, Abderrahim, Sameer and Khaled have already given their ideas > better than I could. So here is a summary of what I think we agree on. > > I think the website team has been formed: > * Mohamed Farag. > * Mohamed Sameer. > * Daif Al-Otaibi. > * Abderrahim Kitouni. > > I'd suggest Farag to take care of leading the team. You should really > take a lot of input from Sameer especially with regards to management of > the revamp. Abderrahim knows what the current site has. Daif saw the > actual code and tinkered with it :) > > Please take the following notes and the previous emails, be practical > and see what they'll lead to. Farag, in your server, can you setup four > accounts for the above team? If not, please let us know ASAP so we set > this up somewhere. > > More worky, less talky :) Should we meet Friday 18:00pm GMT? (website > team) I personally will just be a bystander :-) > > In the future, could you guys use > http://wiki.arabeyes.org/Website_Revamp to track the status of the > project? using the wiki has proved very good at managing and letting > people know what is done and what needs to be done. > > Summary: > -------- > > * A prototype means a mostly working instance that takes minimal effort > to integrate. i.e We need minimal code to get it up and running. Mostly > just configuration. > > You may, of course, show off parts of the work from time to time, and > you are encouraged to do that. At some point, we'll talk to adn to get > you a subdomain so you install your stuff to the Arabeyes server, which > would then be transferred as the main site when things are done. > > I also think design should get into it. Feel free to leech off whatever > graphics you may find on the current site. > > * Multinlingual: this is probably priority 1. It has to support both > Arabic and English. If a compromise has to be reached, go for Arabic. > i.e the emphasis has to be on Arabic. > > At one point we used to be a lot more geared towards upstream > developers. Now our users are mostly Arabic speaking translators and > developers. > > * Functionality: daif can help you a lot here as he saw code and he has > proved capable of tweaking it. Here is what we need: > - News. > - Press section. > - Contact, about. > - A hall of fame section. > - SVN information (howto and statistics). > - Downloads. > - Projects (this should largely mirror the current main projects page). > Please allow for a "dead projects" subsection - could be as simple as a > flag in the db. You can make it one big nice page if you want! but > please let us have an easy way of adding/deleting projects. As Sameer > described: each project should have icon, logo, description, and > maintainer. The rest should go to the wiki I think. Just give a link to > the wiki page. > > Khaled's idea of "sub-projects" may also be nice. But please leave it > off for now until we see what you guys come up with. > > - Mailing list integration (subscription, etc) > - Donate section. > - Member list and profile pages. > + it should allow for simple addition of other sections. I assume the > popular CMS's make this simple ATM. > > > One rule of thumb: KEEP IT SIMPLE. If you think you are making it too > complicated, you probably are :) > > An example of a site that look good and is simple: > http://www.transmissionbt.com/ > > > * On LDAP: adn, I know you are busy, but just let us know whether we can > do this very easily. We currently have SVN + Wiki + trac + new site, and > it would be nice to be able to integrate all three. > > * Choice of CMS: I'm honestly not too knowledgable of the differences > between what's available. But here is one piece of advice, Farag: > > Pick one, research if necessary. Stick to it, and do it. Feel free to > pilot and try what's available, and come to a rational conclusion :-). > > > Djihed > > > > > > > > > في ن، 04-08-2008 عند 09:03 +0200 ، كتب Mohamed Farag: >> Thank you so much Djihad for your efforts yesterday! >> Thank you all for the enjoyable time. >> >> I need your opinion before going ahead and install a test install on my >> server, therefore making a prototype as Djihad requested. >> >> First: for all: >> >> Drupal 6.3 Arabic files are not ready yet. >> Should we install Version 6 and use the Arabic files made available for >> 6.3 (that are originally for 5.9)? >> And start a new project for testing and it. >> http://drupal.org/node/232828 >> >> Or should we go with the older version of Drupal (V. 5.9) with its >> Arabic language files that is stable and tested? just to be practical? >> http://drupal.org/node/232778 >> >> and then we can make a plan for upgrading? >> >> >> Second: >> For all: >> Please send me all your ideas for the new website in all aspects and >> functions/ modules, features that you see important. All your inputs will >> of course be subject to discussion and consensus approval. >> >> Third: >> For Djihad: What exactly do you need in the prototype? >> Also, do you mean a working install of the CMS, but not fully filled with >> data and stuff..or just homepage design under drupal? >> >> Also, do you think I should start website discussions in the admin list, >> or dev list? or here in the general list? >> >> I will also need to have contact with Daif to arrange our work on this >> project. Then we can give an expected deadline for the prototype. >> >> >> Thanks >> >> Mohamed >> >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> Get your free email from http://freemail.asiamail.com >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general > -- > Have a project you would like to be translated to Arabic? > Let us know: > http://wiki.arabeyes.org/Translation_requests > > Blog: http://djihed.com > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
