On Jul 2, 2011, at 9:29 PM, Graham Lauder wrote: > 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.
Understood, thanks for the detail. It is a nice and tight presentation. >> 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. What would you do to the main openoffice.org site if you were starting from scratch? Regards, Dave > > 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. > > >
