Salam, (I think this ought to be in admin, but I'm posting here for more visibility) (if this seems too long, skip to the last two paragraphs)
some time ago we discussed that we need a new website, we talked about having a new website for Arabeyes. It was decided that we use drupal to build a new website (and there was even a design for the website). But times have changed, Arabeyes now has nothing to do with how it was envisioned by its founders. Recently, I found the arabeyes handbook [1], and as you can see, Arabeyes isn't functioning like this for some time now. (tbh, it wasn't like this when I joined Arabeyes nearly 6 years ago. What I'm trying to say is that we shouldn't try to reproduce the current structure of the website, but rather to have something more modern, and more like some other free software projects. One free software site that I liked is elementary [2]. (and I think a more modern Arabeyes should function the same way). They are using drupal as well. So my suggestion is to collect the different uses that exist for the current website as well as things that are needed and aren't possible, and get a minimal website up and try to update it incrementally. My vision of a minimal website would be something were we can post announcements (and have comments), and it only needs to have Arabic content (english may be useful later, but I think it isn't very urgent). Are there other things you would see as essential to the launch of the new website? Regards, Abderrahim [1] http://projects.arabeyes.org/download/documents/handbook/handbook-en/ [2] http://elementaryos.org/ _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
