[libreoffice-website] Discussion about TDF and LibO

2010-12-16 Thread klaus-jürgen weghorn ol
Hi, on the german mailing list there is a discussion about the 'difference' between TDF and LibreOffice [1]. There Christoph Noack gave a short statement [2]. Now we started a wiki-page in german [3] with this text and we want to invite you to discuss, work on it and translate it for your users

Re: [libreoffice-website] Sessões de Documentação e de Extensões no Website de Libre Office

2010-12-16 Thread David Nelson
Hi Vitorio, :-) 2010/12/15 Vitorio Furusho : > First, congratulations to all members of the TDF success being the TDF and > LibreOffice. Thank you for your kind words. ;-) > I would suggest the creation of the Documentation and Extensions Session on > the Website of the TDF. The libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-website] future wiki structure

2010-12-16 Thread Ivan M.
Hi Florian, On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > [...] > What do you basically think about the idea? Makes sense? If it's not going to cause anyone a (long-term) headache, then a big +1 from me - this will give the wiki a greater world-class feel :) Many thanks to Manuel

Re: [libreoffice-website] future wiki structure

2010-12-16 Thread elcico2001
Florian Effenberger ha scritto: Hello, - the TDF wiki will be low in structure and mostly in English, while the LibO wiki will provide -- just like Wikipedia does -- one subdomain for each language, like de.wiki.libreoffice.org for the German variant. That way, searches are only in the d

Re: Less Personal :-) (was: Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Personal Statement)

2010-12-16 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Ivan, I just came back - and it's already time for bed ;-) But before you invest too much effort, there is a tiny thing I'd like to mention... Wait, just a short reply to Christian and David - I briefly scanned their mails, too. So thanks for your kind replies and your offers - that feels grea

Re: Less Personal :-) (was: Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Personal Statement)

2010-12-16 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Ivan, *, On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Ivan M. wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Christoph Noack > wrote: >> [...] > Are you thinking of something like the slideshow on the current > "LibreOffice"/Download page [2]? With some jQuery, a nice fade in/fade > out effect could be added

Re: Less Personal :-) (was: Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Personal Statement)

2010-12-16 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi *, while I agree with David, that the discussion is started too late to change it before going live, don't hold back with the discussion, once there is a new concept, it can be implemented, but time for experimenting with the designs on the real site (and also the staging site is too short for

[libreoffice-website] Piwik statistics → Privacy Policy needs an update

2010-12-16 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi *, send to both website (responsible for changing it :-) as well as marketing (people who are good with words :-) piwik (web analytics tool - details here http://piwik.org/) will be used for the website(s) the TDF runs to get some usage statistics. Thus the privacy policy needs some love regard

Re: [libreoffice-website] tooling for QA and L10n

2010-12-16 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Sophie Gautier wrote: > Would it makes sense to just open a bug for each feature > implemented, even little one :-), with a very minimal description? > QA people will take care of its state to save developer's time. Then > we can retrieve the list easily from BZ? > Hi Sophie, yes, that'll work.

Re: [libreoffice-website] future wiki structure

2010-12-16 Thread Michael Wheatland
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > - the TDF wiki will be low in structure and mostly in English, while the > LibO wiki will provide -- just like Wikipedia does -- one subdomain for each > language, like de.wiki.libreoffice.org for the German variant. That way, > searc

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-16 Thread Michael Wheatland
This thread seems to be coming to a natural end, as such I would like to thank those who have participated in the sometimes heated debates about the site specifics. With the possibilities with Drupal being limited largely by our imagination, skill and time rather than the system, there will be many

[libreoffice-website] Re: future wiki structure

2010-12-16 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-16 09:57, David Nelson a écrit : Hi, :-) +1 They sound like good ideas to me... David Nelson This sounds good. :-) Marc -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ *** All posts to this list are publ

[libreoffice-website] Re: Comments on website content

2010-12-16 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi David, All, Le 16/12/10 15:46, David Nelson a écrit : > Hi Alex, :-) > > I just checked, and you do have authors rights. Please feel free to > enter comments in the unpublished pages, and then I will review, > incorporate changes and then publish the updated pages. Thank you for > your assista

[libreoffice-website] Edubuntu Server LTSP (best with LXDE and mixed feelings about LibreOffice RC1)

2010-12-16 Thread C. CatherineCapers
Hi, We Love the new Edubuntu 10.10 and it might be a choice that we can recommend for use at children's summer camps (like school lab use) and have been testing this application for use in an "Digital Photo Lab" as a educational tool to save money and keep using some really old computers wi

Re: [libreoffice-website] tooling for QA and L10n

2010-12-16 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Thorsten, On 16/12/2010 19:25, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Sophie Gautier wrote: For QA, l10n, Documentation, Marketing teams, I would like to have a list of features/commit automatically generated, if possible with the BZ number when it exists. Hi Sophie, we already have some scripting around

Re: [libreoffice-website] tooling for QA and L10n

2010-12-16 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Sophie Gautier wrote: > For QA, l10n, Documentation, Marketing teams, I would like to have a > list of features/commit automatically generated, if possible with > the BZ number when it exists. > Hi Sophie, we already have some scripting around that, for doing the weekly reports, committer stats, c

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Comments on website content

2010-12-16 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Alexander, *; On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > [...] > When I referred to wanting to leave comments, Silverstripe has a > built-in comment facility that enables you to leave comments separately, Each page has a "ToDo" tab, where you can add such items. The comment

Re: [libreoffice-website] future wiki structure

2010-12-16 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) +1 They sound like good ideas to me... David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Comments on website content

2010-12-16 Thread David Nelson
Hi Alex, :-) I just checked, and you do have authors rights. Please feel free to enter comments in the unpublished pages, and then I will review, incorporate changes and then publish the updated pages. Thank you for your assistance with this. David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Website design [was: Less Personal :-) .... Statement]

2010-12-16 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi *, On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Dr. Bernhard Dippold wrote: >> Am Donnerstag, den 16.12.2010, 01:39 +0100 schrieb Bernhard Dippold: >> [...] I do a quick leap over the menu/site design part - Just be assured that the menu can of course be restructured to whatever design/functionality is

[libreoffice-website] Re: Comments on website content

2010-12-16 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi David, Le 16/12/10 11:50, David Nelson a écrit : > > I would humbly suggest that no-one should start butchering the site > content *right at this time*... It's *nearly* in a state in which I > could ask Florian if he could find time to launch the site live... I > will have finished with all t

Re: [libreoffice-website] future wiki structure

2010-12-16 Thread Italo Vignoli
Florian Effenberger wrote: What do you basically think about the idea? Makes sense? Very good solution, and thanks to both of you -- Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.com Mobile +39.348.5653829 VoIP: +39.02.320621813 Skype: italovignoli -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@lib

Re: [libreoffice-website] future wiki structure

2010-12-16 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Flo, On 16/12/2010 17:07, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello, as said, lots of things are going on in the background, which is one reason why I've been so silent. ;-) I had a talk to Manuel Schneider from Wikimedia, who kindly offered help on the wiki, and actually is doing so already. We had

[libreoffice-website] future wiki structure

2010-12-16 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, as said, lots of things are going on in the background, which is one reason why I've been so silent. ;-) I had a talk to Manuel Schneider from Wikimedia, who kindly offered help on the wiki, and actually is doing so already. We had some brainstorming on how to best organize the future

Re: [libreoffice-website] TODO #5 Home page widgets

2010-12-16 Thread David Nelson
Hi Christian, :-) I saw. You did a great job, thank you very much for the time that must have taken you. Every time, you've responded so quickly - thank you for that, too. ;-) I'm just finishing off a job for a client, but in a few hours I will be back to finishing the last content pages. Tomorro

Re: [libreoffice-website] TODO #5 Home page widgets

2010-12-16 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi David, *, On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:52 AM, David Nelson wrote: > > I reworked the Welcome page at http://pumbaa.ooodev.org:7780/ > > I tried getting the widgets to work on test.libreoffice.org but did > not succeed... could you possibly replace the contents of the home > page on test.libreoff

[libreoffice-website] tooling for QA and L10n

2010-12-16 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi all, I'm writing here, not sure if it's the right place, if you see a better one, push me to it :) Also it's a long time work, so no emergency, it's a kind of letter to Santa Claus ;-) I was thinking about the TCS we need and I would like to work on it during the Christmas time. Thinking

Re: Less Personal :-) (was: Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Personal Statement)

2010-12-16 Thread Ivan M.
Hi Christoph! On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Christoph Noack wrote: > [...] >> If the information architecture is any good, the simplicity of the >> website at this stage should eliminate the need for breadcrumbs. > > ++1 > > Klaus-Jürgen already described the complex menus that might have to

Re: [libreoffice-website] Comments on website content

2010-12-16 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi David, David Nelson wrote on 2010-12-16 11.50: I would humbly suggest that no-one should start butchering the site content *right at this time*... It's *nearly* in a state in which I could ask Florian if he could find time to launch the site live... I will have finished with all the content

[libreoffice-website] Re: What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-16 Thread Marc Paré
Hi all: Le 2010-12-15 18:01, David Nelson a écrit : Hi, :-) There is also the question of who would administer a Drupal site. I'm not currently aware of any candidates with the right profile, unless Christian was willing to do it. Administering one of TDF's Web resources requires a lot of tech

Re: [libreoffice-website] Comments on website content

2010-12-16 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 19:00, Cor Nouws wrote: > While working on the content, I would suggest that you try to include > specific suggestions from people that read the draft pages. I will indeed, insofar as I'm not flooded with them. ;-) Like everyone else, I only have 24 hours in my da

[libreoffice-website] Re: Website design [was: Less Personal :-) .... Statement]

2010-12-16 Thread Dr. Bernhard Dippold
Hi Christoph, Klaus-Jürgen, all, > Hi Bernhard, all! > > Am Donnerstag, den 16.12.2010, 01:39 +0100 schrieb Bernhard Dippold: > > 1. Create a website that can be active as soon as possible. > > > > This website is the SilverStripe website (clear decision by the SC), > > that needs content (now!

Re: [libreoffice-website] Comments on website content

2010-12-16 Thread Cor Nouws
David Nelson wrote (16-12-10 11:50) Hi, :-) On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 18:26, Alexander Thurgood wrote: I would have put comments directly on to each page, but it appears I don't have author rights for the English part of the website. I would humbly suggest that no-one should start butchering

Re: Less Personal :-) (was: Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Personal Statement)

2010-12-16 Thread David Nelson
Hi Ivan, all, :-) Christian could give you a better situation report on the CSS than me. It's obvious that what I'm doing is an initial version of the content that would allow us to launch the site *quickly* with some half-way credible pages. (We just have to hope that Florian would be able to fi

Re: [libreoffice-website] Comments on website content

2010-12-16 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 18:26, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > I would > have put comments directly on to each page, but it appears I don't have > author rights for the English part of the website. I would humbly suggest that no-one should start butchering the site content *right at this tim

Re: Less Personal :-) (was: Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Personal Statement)

2010-12-16 Thread Ivan M.
Hi David, On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:16 PM, David Nelson wrote: > Hi, :-) > > If I may make so bold as to suggest this, but have you considered > letting Christian and me finish the initial form of the website > content before re-designing it all? :-D Of course... but my response was mainly spea

[libreoffice-website] Comments on website content

2010-12-16 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, I was perusing the upcoming and ongoing test.libreoffice.org website in English and am going to stick my neck out and give MHO here. I would have put comments directly on to each page, but it appears I don't have author rights for the English part of the website. My comments are intended t

Re: Less Personal :-) (was: Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Personal Statement)

2010-12-16 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi David, wh, why oh why start interesting discussions if time is up? ;-) Am Donnerstag, den 16.12.2010, 17:50 +0800 schrieb David Nelson: > Instead of the side menu, have you considered a dropdown menu > (dropping down from the top menu)? > It would gain a lot of space on the left... I did

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: More or Less Personal :-)

2010-12-16 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi all! Am Donnerstag, den 16.12.2010, 11:00 +0100 schrieb Erich Christian: [...] > >> The sub-menu is directly placed > >> below the main menu (if required on that page). > > I personally don't like such menus under the other menus. > > The top-menus are "starter" and the sidemenus are bringing d

Re: Less Personal :-) (was: Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Personal Statement)

2010-12-16 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Ivan! Am Donnerstag, den 16.12.2010, 22:29 +1300 schrieb Ivan M.: > Hi Christoph, all, > > First of all, apologies for my absence - of course catching up reading > 100s of messages some additional took time away too :) Let's say that my enjoyment to read you mail totally outperforms your abse

Re: Less Personal :-) (was: Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Personal Statement)

2010-12-16 Thread David Nelson
Hi Ivan, :-) Given the urgent situation, might I invite you to think about my reply below? ;-) David Nelson On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 18:16, David Nelson wrote: > Hi, :-) > > If I may make so bold as to suggest this, but have you considered > letting Christian and me finish the initial form of th

Re: Less Personal :-) (was: Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Personal Statement)

2010-12-16 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) If I may make so bold as to suggest this, but have you considered letting Christian and me finish the initial form of the website content before re-designing it all? :-D I will have finished all the pages by tomorrow morning CET, and we could then see if Florian has time to switch the sit

Re: Less Personal :-) (was: Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Personal Statement)

2010-12-16 Thread Ivan M.
Hi David, On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:50 PM, David Nelson wrote: > Hi, :-) > > Instead of the side menu, have you considered a dropdown menu > (dropping down from the top menu)? > It would gain a lot of space on the left... > >> IMO, a screenshot of the start center would be the thing to have on >

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: More or Less Personal :-)

2010-12-16 Thread Erich Christian
Hi Christoph, K-J, *, Am 16.12.2010 09:05, schrieb klaus-jürgen weghorn ol: > Am 16.12.2010 02:46, schrieb Christoph Noack: >> [more visual design] >> Thus, here is an example for the welcome page - along with the >> menus to be used on other pages: >> http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/bbnG0Hny

Re: Less Personal :-) (was: Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Personal Statement)

2010-12-16 Thread David Nelson
Hi Ivan, :-) Given the work that Christian has done on the download widget, how do you envision integrating downloading into the home page? David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ *** All posts to t

Re: Less Personal :-) (was: Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Personal Statement)

2010-12-16 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) Instead of the side menu, have you considered a dropdown menu (dropping down from the top menu)? It would gain a lot of space on the left... > IMO, a screenshot of the start center would be the thing to have on > the homepage... visually, it provides the greatest screenshot > marketing po

Re: Less Personal :-) (was: Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Personal Statement)

2010-12-16 Thread Ivan M.
Hi Christoph, all, First of all, apologies for my absence - of course catching up reading 100s of messages some additional took time away too :) On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Christoph Noack wrote: > Hi Bernhard, all! > > Am Donnerstag, den 16.12.2010, 01:39 +0100 schrieb Bernhard Dippold: >>

[libreoffice-website] Re: Less Personal :-)

2010-12-16 Thread klaus-jürgen weghorn ol
Hi Christoph, Am 16.12.2010 02:46, schrieb Christoph Noack: So, I started to work on a menu concept (and iterated a lot, I fell back to very simple but powerful version...) and added some more visual design. Thus, here is an example for the welcome page - along with the menus to be used on other