Hello all, we had great participation for the community web themes. I'm attaching a document of the meeting. It's not an exact transcriptions, I edited parts to make it more readable and to reduce the length.
Here is my agenda and summary of what was decided for each point. I'm going to send a separate email for action items. Let me know if I left something important out. 1. Introducing myself, others from the company 2. Mention new branding https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Brand2 3. Introduce the web presence team and invite those who are interested to join it https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website 4. Indicate plans for releasing new website with new branding 1. Increased quality of content 2. Greater focus on appealing to a broader audience (ref. Mark's curve from UDS) 3. Better navigation 4. Far more complex of a theme and site management work-flow 5. Discuss previous problems with fragmented community themes 6. Talk about ideals for forthcoming community themes 1. Unified and consistent 2. Designed to allow individual teams to express their unique make-up 3. High quality, respects brand guidelines 4. Harmonious with but not identical to main www.ubuntu.com 5. Differing by application in ways that exploits the benefits of the platform (i.e. drupal theme may differ from wordpress, wiki, forum, etc) 7. Availability of assets to the community 1. CSS and images used in the website available to community teams at the time of site's launch, license details forthcoming 2. Logos and logo guidelines available at http://www.canonical.com/logos a. Please read and respect the logo usage guidelines b. Please read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Brand c. Please use this as a reference: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/VisualIdentity 3. Additional assets from the designers will be available at, or shortly after the launch of the new theme 8. What do we need 1. A plain, base HTML template that can be the foundation for other templates. Clean design, and code, easy to implement for other themes 2. Application specific themes: wordpress, smf, drupal, django, rails, moin moin, planet planet, fluxbb/punbb, dokuwiki, elgg 3. A launchpad project, one branch per theme with a master branch for the base-theme containing resources used by the others 4. A place of reference for these themes - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/WebThemes 4. Mention the work by MTechnology and echowarp on a drupal theme and how we can use base-themes with ubuntu branding on top of them (ref zen drupal theme) 9. Who gets to use these themes? 1. Official community websites 2. It is not our plan for this project to create general purpose themes 3. non-official community sites can use the themes if the branding is removed and they are made to look distinct from the community themes * Exceptions may be made for unofficial community sites, case in point being "spread ubuntu." -- Matthew Nuzum newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, identi.ca and twitter "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought." –Matsuo Bashō
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