On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 12:57 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: > Yesterday I got tired of the look of people.mdtext in the project site. It > was so 1990s. So, I've improved the look via css and adding defined widths. I > guess I am volunteering for the item on > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Help+Wanted > > Several of us have been surveying the existing openoffice.org website on > several wiki pages mostly linked to from: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Site-PPMC-Plan > > With over 140 "projects" in openoffice.org, it will be important to agree to > a mapping which reduces the granularity by more than an order of magnitude. > The page http://projects.openoffice.org/ is a good and clear way to start - > and pretty much fits the structure on > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Project+Planning > > • Product Development > • Extension Development > • Language Support > • Helping Users > • Distribution > • Promotion > > I think that these groupings will help us easily have a rule about which > projects end up on http://openoffice.apache.org/ or stay on the successor > http://*.openoffice.org/. > > Projects have "webcontent" and/or "wiki" content. On openoffice.org there is > a generally consistent look. There are exceptions which are marketing sites > like http://why.openoffice.org/. The difference is glaring because that is > the first big button on the main site.
The why.openoffice.org page was done as a marketing tool independently of the main website and the Website team under the marketing project by one of the members of the marketing team and for a specific marketing campaign. Andre's design was so good we left it as is, however there had been intention to change it suit the overall look but volunteer time availability to do it was lacking. It still served a purpose as a very useful marketing resource so pulling it down just because of a non-standard look was never an option. > > Webcontent is available via svn - "svn co > https://svn.openoffice.org/svn/${project}~webcontent ${project}" (Thanks > Marcus Lange) > > Some projects are huge and others small. I downloaded several: > > wave@minotaur:~/ooo-test$ ls -1 > development > documentation > download > projects > www > > The size is 2.7GB. > > It would be good to come up with a scripted way to convert existing > webcontent to either mdtext, an altered html, or specialized javascript and > css. It is likely we can adapt the content and use the Apache CMS to wrap a > standard skeleton. > > Regards, Dave > Much of what is on there is legacy material that could be seriously pruned. For instance all the old Marketing material that is V2.0 and earlier could be deleted. Argument could be made for the marketing material to start from scratch. Personally I'd like to see a whole new branding and get shot of the old stuff, make the first Apache release: V4.0 (Historically, significant global change has meant a whole number change in the version: V2 new codebase, V3 Apple compatibility. I think this is significant enough: pre V4 = LGPL license, V4 and later = ALV2) From a marketing POV it gives us a handle to hang a campaign on. Cheers GL -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant.
