On 12 Jul 2010, at 12:37, Noah Slater wrote: > It is starting to concern me that we're trying to design the site by > committee. And design by committee is a terrible way to achieve anything with > cohesion. I'm not sure what to do though. > > The ideal solution would be for us to appoint a designer/webmaster who's sole > responsibility was the design and maintenance of the site. This person could > then take guidance from the community on what should be included, and what > we'd like on the site - but would be free to call the shots, and ultimately > decide how things were going to look. > > Does anyone have any ideas how we can move towards this, and away from the > current situation? Having a bunch of geeks (and we're hardly known for our > design prowess in the first place, right?) argue about what should and should > not be included will lead us head first into the kind of open source website > we all know and hate.
Very much +1 on all Noah said. To keep things moving, I'd be happy to volunteer to play benevolent dictator for the site and work with proper designer and community input. Cheers Jan --
