Hello Mario, On Dec 12, 2014, at 10:02, Mario Castelán Castro <[email protected]> wrote:
> The FSF has the goal of collecting 525 000 USD by January 31st. I think that > GNU Savannah must help them by spreading the fundraising campaign. There's > already a small banner asking users to join the FSF as a member, but the > fundraising campaign is different from this. What about displaying it in a > different color on top of the page as in the GNU project and FSF page?. This is certainly a worthy campaign. However it's important to remember that GNU Savannah is maintained by volunteers, and not too many of them. The FSF (and the "http://www.gnu.org";) is maintained by the FSF, which has a dedicated full-time web developer and several interns. GNU Savannah does not have these resources. Technically, The 'gnu.org' uses apache server-side includes, which allows the FSF web-developers to modify the common headers and these changes will propagate on many of the gnu.org pages. In contrast, GNU Savannah uses an old PHP framework, which is out-dated by today's standard (e.g. there's no easy and centralized templating system which enables changing a common header in one easy location). As such, I do not think there's enough man-power to add the FSF campaign banner in an acceptable way (one that will be rendered correctly on all pages and on all client browsers). But as always - if there are volunteers who'd like to contribute such changes, they are welcomed to help GNU Savannah. A good starting point is running the savannah code locally, see here: http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/RunningSavaneLocally/ http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SavaneInABox/ There might be a simpler way of adding a subtle message on the front page of GNU Savannah, but I'm not sure about the effectiveness of such a message. Regards, - Assaf
