Patrick Hess wrote:
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> Most portals or CMS have nice, colored informationsheets to impress
> the marketing people :-) For Jetspeed there is nothing like this.
> So I had to tell the other people in our company about the + and
> - of Jetspeed. They liked it! Jetspeed is now on our list the
> number 1 and there's no good chance to beat it ...
Cool!
> Before we decide wether to use Jetspeed or not we have to check
> few things. So I have to go deeper into the Jetspeed Framework
> + Java Source and I hope you can help me answering this questions.
>
> Interview on DevShed: (10/27/1999)
>
> } DevShed: It looks like you are working on this project alone. Are you
> } looking for more talent to help with this project? What kind of help
> } do you need?
> }
> } Yes! Currently I am the only *active* developer. However, I have a
> } lot of people on the JetSpeed mailing list giving me feedback which
> } is very important.
> }
> } [...]
> }
> } I would really like to get more people involved. Especially HTML/
> } graphics people. Many Open Source projects don't have to offer a
> } rich GUI to users. I want JetSpeed to have a really nice "look"
> } about it. Unfortunately many Software Engineers (myself included)
> } are not very good at designing computer graphics/HTML layout.
>
> Is this situation the same today? HTML and graphics stuff would
> be no problem for us (metazoa is a multimedia agency) and we would
> be lucky to put our code back to the project. Is there any help
> wanted?
God please! I totally agree with your 'colored informationsheets to
impress
the marketing people' comment (although I don't know what an
informationsheet is). If Jetspeed looked (graphically) cool then we
would just get more users :) Most of this would just be presentation so
it would be easy to implement :)
Kevin
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