Hello Alex,<br><br>I'm sorry if i proposed my help in the wrong place.<br>With respect to the webcomm comitee, i think Web identity and presence is also part of the foundation marketing.<br>I agree with Cameron, when he says that the website is the most powerfull marketing tool we have.<br>
<br>About the new design that was created, yes i'd be interested to see it. Is it this one may be ?<br><a href="http://www3.osgeo.org/node/26">http://www3.osgeo.org/node/26</a><br>If yes, i am sorry to say i would have imagine something more modern and cross-browser.<br>
<br>About using Trac for a whole website, you can see an example here:<br><a href="http://zoo-project.org/">http://zoo-project.org/</a><br>Nothing intregrating, only wiki pages are rendered there, through WPS request and a bit of CSS.<br>
The code is here and used in production for other purposes, so that won't be that much work to install and to maintain i guess.<br>(and it would avoid to have a Trac and a Drupal interface without the same design at all).<br>
<br>Anyway, the HTML5/CSS3 i wanted to propose could also adapt to Drupal i guess.<br>If Webcomm, SysAdmin and Marketing comitees would like to see a test for a new design, i would be happy to create one.<br><br>Best regards,<br>
<br>Nick<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/4/21 Alex Mandel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tech_dev@wildintellect.com">tech_dev@wildintellect.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 04/20/2012 08:12 PM, nicolas bozon wrote:<br>
> Hello all,<br>
><br>
> Many thanks for including me in the Marketing comitee.<br>
> i am very glad to join, and i hope i can help and contribute soon.<br>
><br>
> I am sorry i missed the last meeting, but it was really early here, JST<br>
> time (05:30 AM, huuu!)<br>
> Thanks for the summary Arnulf.<br>
><br>
> Cameron, yes i've mentionned my interest about the OSGeo website possible<br>
> improvements.<br>
> I think the Foundation would need a better webdesign and web presence, in<br>
> order to attract even more users, developers and sponsors.<br>
> I think that some other software foundations have great websites and use of<br>
> social networks, and OSGeo should put more energy on this.<br>
><br>
> My first ideas are as follow:<br>
><br>
> - I can may be propose a new design for the website in near future, based<br>
> on a more modern and visual UI.<br>
<br>
</div>A redesign has been done, we need someone to actually implement it and<br>
do the drupal upgrade in the process. I'll see if I can find where we<br>
stuck the mockups.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> - I'd also like to see more advertizing about Projects themselves, right<br>
> from the home page (not only links, but may be projects logos...)<br>
<br>
</div>We should look into how to best represent the projects...<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> - Because there is a lot of content from many sources, i think we should<br>
> organize it better (News from Projetcs, OSGeo journal, Blogs, Pictures...)<br>
<br>
</div>I'm reading a design book right now, and based on that the feeds etc<br>
should not be the main focus of the page. I think the redesign moves<br>
most of that to page 2.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> - As OSGeo is using Trac massively, and because some partners and I are<br>
> using a modified version of Trac as a full-featured and multi-language CMS,<br>
> i'd like to suggest to use it for OSGeo too.<br>
<br>
</div>We are planning a trac upgrade to 0.12 which supports multi-language but<br>
once again need someone to step in and actually do it (infrastructure is<br>
in place). That's an intriguing idea to move the whole site to Trac if I<br>
understand correctly. I'm not sure trac is the best platform though for<br>
a CMS (not that it can't work, but that it might be more work).<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> Anyway, please tell me if the comitee would be interested in such a new<br>
> design test, and i would be happy to work on this during my free time soon.<br>
><br>
> Best regards,<br>
><br>
><br>
> Nick<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>So the interesting part here is that the website is supposed to be the<br>
role of the webcom committee (Is it active) and the software stuff is<br>
all handled by the System Admin Committee (Of which I'm current chair).<br>
Historical that has meant that marketing focused on tangible real world<br>
materials, public representation, and development of materials (case<br>
studies, project overviews, etc...).<br>
<br>
Great to have you excited about this though and we should continue the<br>
conversation about how to get some of this done.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Alex<br>
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