Hi Romain, Generally a competition is a bad way of coming up with a new design. It generally emphasises looks over function and, of course, requires people to put in a lot of effort for a small chance of gain. I'd also agree with Friedrich that few people will enter.
My opinion is if that people thought it was truly important to have a better R homepage, it would be better to start a collection and hire a professional developer. Otherwise, there is a very real risk that we will end up with something worse than the current. Hadley On 4/25/06, Romain Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear R users and developpers, > > My question is adressed to both of you, so I choose R-help to post it. > > Are there any plans to jazz up the main R website : http://www.r-project.org > The look it have now is the same for a long time and kind of sad > compared to other statistical package's website. Of course, the > comparison is not fair, since companies are paying web designers to draw > lollipop websites ... > > My first idea was to organize some kind of web designing contest. > But, I had a small talk with Friedrich Leisch about that, who said that > I shouldn't expect too many competitors. > So, what about creating a small team, create a home page project and > then propose it to the core team. > It goes without saying it : The core team has the final word. > > What do you think ? Who would like to play ? > > Romain > > -- > visit the R Graph Gallery : http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques > mixmod 1.7 is released : http://www-math.univ-fcomte.fr/mixmod/index.php > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Romain FRANCOIS - http://francoisromain.free.fr | > | Doctorant INRIA Futurs / EDF | > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html