Hi Jim, Jim Campbell wrote: > Per Cody's message, we've moved the location of the specification for > the new website to: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Specifications/Gutsy/NewWebsite > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Specifications/Gutsy/NewWebsite> > > Believe me, I know that writing a specification is not fun, but if we > could have a couple people take a look at it, and just jot down what > they like about the website and what needs to be improved - at least > give us a start - it would be helpful. > > Don't go thinking that your comments have to be perfect. Let's just get > down some ideas first so that we have something to build on. In the > spirit of wikipedia, be bold. > > Muchas gracias,
wouldn't it work faster and get more feedback if instead of a spec the site itself was prototyped? Take the ubuntu drupal theme, and with maybe minor CSS+art changes and the main (not archives) content of xubuntu.org put it up somewhere. If you have access to xubuntu.org do you have enough rights to set up a subdomain for it (beta.xubuntu.org) Then people can get real feedback and proceed with improving it in small steps. Writing a spec is as you say boring, and I think it has the effect of demotivating people working on it, whereas a live site would get more contributors excited and be visible progress. So as the 'Getting Real' authors advise: get something small out quick, get feedback on the real thing not the specs, improve in iterations, etc. :) Of course for this to work someone _has_ to take ownership of the task. With 3-4 site admins but none taking full responsability progress is usually slower. In the past someone said they had the current ubuntu drupal theme adapted for xubuntu? Is that done? A few first steps I can see are: - set up the new beta subdomain (not one external to xubuntu.org if possible) (needs owner) - put the new drupal skin on it (needs owner) - start filling with content from multiple authors and solve problmes that arise (multiple authors) - eventually switch xubuntu.org to this content thanks Jani -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
