Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-21 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I'm confused :) The www-sugarlabs repo hasn't been updated for 19 days? How was the site changed? On 21 April 2016 at 09:18, Sean DALY wrote: > Hi Dave > > I'm not being negative, just surprised that the site was changed. My ideal > process is to involve marketers in marketing, but that's v

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-21 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Dave I'm not being negative, just surprised that the site was changed. My ideal process is to involve marketers in marketing, but that's very unusual for FLOSS projects :-) In fact the homepage does cycle the logo variants - that's good! There are typos in the text though... who can fix those

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-21 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 21 April 2016 at 09:08, Sean DALY wrote: > I didn't realize the existing site had been scrapped already. > I would like to ask you to be more positive about the new members of the community being enthusiastic about contributing. > FWIW, the Sugar branding calls for randomly switching be

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-21 Thread Sean DALY
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Juan Carlos Murillo wrote: > Also, if there is a range of different colors for the logo, then a good > idea might be to use the same logo color for the websites that have more > related content between them (i.e. homepage and activities). I didn't realize the ex

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-21 Thread Sanchit Bansal
ailto:d.crossl...@gmail.com] *En nombre de *Dave > Crossland > *Enviado el:* Monday, April 18, 2016 5:37 PM > *Para:* Juan Carlos Murillo > *CC:* sugar-devel > *Asunto:* Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign > > > > Hi > > > > On 18 April 2016 at 1

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-21 Thread Juan Carlos Murillo
, 2016 5:37 PM Para: Juan Carlos Murillo CC: sugar-devel Asunto: Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign Hi On 18 April 2016 at 15:04, Juan Carlos Murillo mailto:jcmurillo...@gmail.com> > wrote: In addition to Sugar Labs main webpage, Wiki, Planet, and the Translation webpages,

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-20 Thread Juan Carlos Murillo
; James Cameron Asunto: Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign Hi On 18 April 2016 at 18:21, Sam P. mailto:sam@sam.today> > wrote: Content is genuinely the most important. No matter how nice your design is, no new visitor will be able to get what sugarlabs is by looking at you

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-20 Thread Juan Carlos Murillo
g] En nombre de James Cameron Enviado el: Monday, April 18, 2016 4:48 PM Para: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Asunto: Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 02:04:19PM -0500, Juan Carlos Murillo wrote: > Hi developers, > > I hope you are doing well. Fin

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-20 Thread Venketesh Mahapatra
​​ agreed, but if we can use instantsearchJS with Mozilla add-ons then it would be great. https://community.algolia.com/instantsearch.js/documentation/#starrating Also we can use readthedocs with custom sphinx theme for documentation features in readthedocs: 1. provides github integration 2. Auto U

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20 April 2016 at 11:11, Venketesh Mahapatra < mahapatra.venket...@gmail.com> wrote: > MediaWiki: a custom bootstrap skin can be used which will match the > website. It is optional because many people are habituated with the old > one. link: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:BootStrapSkin >

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20 April 2016 at 11:11, Venketesh Mahapatra < mahapatra.venket...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Mozilla addons - I think a better alternative may be instantsearchJS > https://community.algolia.com/instantsearch.js/ . It is faster and the UX > is pretty good. > I'm not sure that is an alternative to ad

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-20 Thread Venketesh Mahapatra
Hello I have also applied for GSOC 2016. I had an exam so I couldn't reply to the messages. I have some suggestions and doubts regarding the technologies used. I may be wrong in that case please correct me. Mozilla addons - I think a better alternative may be instantsearchJS https://community.alg

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-18 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Gonzalo Could you help explain this? :) On 18 April 2016 at 19:33, James Cameron wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 06:37:49PM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote: > > > > On 18 April 2016 at 17:48, James Cameron <[1]qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > > > > [2]help.sugarlabs.org > > > > How is thi

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-18 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 06:37:49PM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 18 April 2016 at 17:48, James Cameron <[1]qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > >         [2]help.sugarlabs.org > > How is this generated? Don't know. If I needed to know, I'd ask Gonzalo. My guess is that the help-activity repos

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-18 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 18 April 2016 at 18:21, Sam P. wrote: > Content is genuinely the most important. No matter how nice your design > is, no new visitor will be able to get what sugarlabs is by looking at your > site - it simply doesn't say it! I agree 100%, however, as I understood it, I think Juan Carlos

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-18 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 18 April 2016 at 15:04, Juan Carlos Murillo wrote: > > In addition to Sugar Labs main webpage, Wiki, Planet, and the Translation > webpages, which other websites do you think will need to be redesigned? > I would prioritize/order them as: homepage, activities.sugarlabs.org, wiki, lists, p

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-18 Thread Dave Crossland
On 18 April 2016 at 17:48, James Cameron wrote: > help.sugarlabs.org > How is this generated? ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-18 Thread Sam P.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, I tested your website in portrait on my phone. Many of the text columns looked a little small. Please try to test with that too. When I went to your site, it seemed to be lacking in content. Please don't add dummy text now and do conten

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-18 Thread Sanchit Bansal
Hey Can you guys take a looks at this and give me some feedback on the design : sanchitbansal.xyz/GSoC/ Thanks a lot On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:18 AM, James Cameron wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 02:04:19PM -0500, Juan Carlos Murillo wrote: > > Hi developers, > > > > I hope you are doing wel

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-18 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 02:04:19PM -0500, Juan Carlos Murillo wrote: > Hi developers, > > I hope you are doing well. Fine thanks! > I applied for the GSoC 2016 to work on the redesign of the Sugar Lab’s > websites. I would like to have your opinions on the following > questions. A question not

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-18 Thread Juan Carlos Murillo
Hi developers, I hope you are doing well. I applied for the GSoC 2016 to work on the redesign of the Sugar Lab's websites. I would like to have your opinions on the following questions. In addition to Sugar Labs main webpage, Wiki, Planet, and the Translation webpages, which other websites do yo