First, I want to congratulate Dave, Kay, Gavin, and Joe for all of the work and no small amount of sleep-deprived nail-biting to kick off the cut-over to ASF custody and operation of the openoffice.org static web site.
This is a big day. The journey of the site through Apache OpenOffice incubation now has a tangible existence in the world. Concerning reviews, defects, clean-ups, etc., 1. It is easy to see many little things and perhaps some big things. 2. It is easier to report a defect than to provide a "patch" and there are many more folks who can do the first while having no idea about the second. Also, it is rather incoherent for many of the little things to require bug reports. 3. My suggestion is to use some structure on the wiki to visually capture observations, evidence, and suggestions of remedies. Some will be defects that may need to be reported via bugzilla. Some will be recognition of improvement opportunities and suggestions. Using a coherent structure also allows folks to see and review the observations and suggestions that have already been made, saving repetition and perhaps inspiring further comments. I'm not sure what is a good structure, and it would probably have to be curated by someone who keeps it edited and tidy. My thought would be use of OOOUSERS. For the truly obsessive, a progression (but on the web structure) such as my offering on the Windows Installation process may be appealing: <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Win-en-x86-Setup>. This is meant to be updated/branched as new builds change the information and as additional variations are explored. There is similar visualizable material on the discussion of logos and icons, <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOOLogo+proposal>. Also, commenting is easy and list posts can refer to the materials relatively easily. (I think I'll put permalinks to anchors on those so it is even easier to point to particular places and images.) I'm off on other tasks. I'll see what I can do in the next 24 hours to seed something for site review, etc. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Dave Fisher [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 14:25 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Improving the look of the our website Welcome Robert, On Dec 28, 2011, at 8:48 AM, Robert Kotula wrote: > > MediumImprove the look of the our website, especially the default landing > page. Skills needed: graphic design, web design, good taste. Skills gained: > Markdown syntax, Apache CMS > > I would like to help in the Web Design Process, if you would like to accept > my help please answer me back. Thanks We accept help and ideas from anyone. Help can start small with finding flaws on the websites and suggesting patches. Tell us about yourself. What skills do you already have? Regards, Dave > > Robert Kotula (robijunior)
