Sounds like a great idea. On 3 Jan, 12:37, Colin <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds like a great idea. > > This is what I do all the time and is what essentially motivates me to > log bugs (with patches where possible). > > Sometime in the early part of the year - March is as good as any time > - is probably a good time to do this. That way we can capture some of > people's left over New Year motivation, but also enhance all the > plugins etc in time for the next Habari release. > > > > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Michael Bishop <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/habari-users > > -- > Colin Seymour > Blog:http://colinseymour.co.uk > Tech Stuff:http://www.lildude.co.uk > Barefoot Running:http://barefootrunner.co.uk
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