On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:37:25AM +0200, Andreas Beck wrote:
> 2. Our Homepage needs a serious refreshment. I feel that myself. While it is
> pretty clean and simple, especially for those who know the project, it lacks
> some spice for the others. We need some eye-candy there, and we should
> change it on a regular basis to keep people hitting the site.
>
> A few suggestions for that:
> a. We feature a "cool GGI Screenshot of the week". I'd volunteer to take the
> pics all you out there would send me and judge them and integrate them with
> the website. Webbased voting would also do, but someone would have to set
> that up.
> b. I have kind of a webcam here which is GGI enabled, at least if I rewrite
> a few small tools I lost in my HD crash. Should be no biggie.
> However that wouldn't be a really interesting thing to look at - if it
> really gets interesting, I'll surely have turned it off in time :-) ...
> Moreover, as I'm not on a permanent connections, updates would be at most
> something like twice a day or something.
>
> And we'll probably have to restructure it a little to the current mainstream
> "sourceforge"-structure like "info - screenshots - download - contact".
>
> More ideas very welcome.
Here is what I think could be done with the web site:
1. Backup the existing Web site, then start over, verifying and copying
stuff back one-by-one. Serious. There's currently a lot of cruft
coming from 'old' documentation that mislead people. When I took over
the webmaster position before, I didn't attempt to overhaul the site
much, fearing losing old information. But it turns out that it needs to
be done anyway.
2. Make the Website dynamic. We already tend to be weakly motivated to update
documentation and news, so we should make it real easy to modify bit-by-bit.
Unless someone wants to take this task, I'll experiment. Admittedly, I
am more interested in XML, DocBook and all the other buzzword W3C
standards than graphics, so I think this is an area I could contribute
to. I want to implement a filter that converts plain text to Web site
markup / DocBook so text messages can be included on the Web site
quickly.
3. The obvious: prominently mention LibGGI, LibGII and the other GGI
stuff in separate sections of the Web site.
4. Some way to bring the ML archive back.
Semi-automatic gateway to ML for non-subscribers.
A number of people mentioned documentation. To improve that, I'd like
people to point out to me or the ML every little thing that is wrong,
misleading, omitted, or just even a little bit unclear. (Even
grammar mistakes, which there are many because the last revision was
done hastily.)
Documentation for setting up fbdev and XGGI is probably much desired,
but the main problem appears to be that it is system-/hardware-
specific; one person cannot cover everything. Maybe I'll start by
pulling out pieces from the ML and composing a document that everyone
can contribute.
> 7. Someone suggested a big IRC meeting.
>
> This would indeed probably rise the spirits some. I do remember the times,
> when I summarized such meetings with that famous fantasy-touch stories ...
> was quite some fun, and I think we should start having so much fun again ...
> ;-).
Is Marcus back?
If so, I propose sometime this week.
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Steve Cheng
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