As I took the plunge New Years Eve to bring my site(s) back up to <head> (it was 320 revs or so behind), which required updating a few plugins mostly, inevitably it also got me thinking about how I'd like to spruce up or in one case, change things completely up. Updating things got me hands on involved in updating a few plugins in -extras to be compatible with trunk, and got me to thinking if we could motivate the community to refresh/realign their sites, it might kill a few birds with one stone.
A lot of us are busy, and loose time to work on Habari to any great deal, usually only when we need to do something with a site. If dozens of people are all working on their sites, then there's a good possibility that they will all have ideas/code for improving core, plugins, and possibly even donate their old design to the -extras repo, or build off of and improve one already there. It may also get some of us back into the swing of working on the project a little more regularly. Also, if we have a specific day in mind, it could help generate some buzz for the project in general, if we're all blogging/tweeting etc about it, which then might bring a few more into the fold. Ultimately though, I think it would just be a fun community oriented event. I don't have any specific date in mind, but mid March should give everyone enough time, without dragging it so far off into the future that it looses momentum. If anyone else thinks it's a worthy idea, I'll gladly spearhead writing a post for hp.o and trying to keep the ball moving. This doesn't have to be a complete redesign of your site ,which certainly can be daunting, and some may like the basic feel of their site and not want to do a complete overhaul. Which is why I have a handy link to a A List Apart article by Cameron Moll about realigning vs redesigning :-D http://www.alistapart.com/articles/redesignrealign Anyway, happy New Years to all, hope to hear some feedback on the idea and look forward to seeing some great things from Habari in 2010. ~miklb -- 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/habari-users
