Hey team Are there any discussions about which versions of the different CMSs designs will be made for? Ubuntu-dk are currently looking into developing a new site in Drupal 7, and having a theme to use as a basis would be rocking.
Jesper Jarlskov Ubuntu-DK On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Matthew Nuzum <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > >
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