[Qgis-psc] Fwd: Please help promote FOSS4G on the QGIS site

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Richard


On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde <richard at duif.net>wrote:

> On 04/15/2014 11:42 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:
>
> >         It may be good for us to revisit the front page at some point -
> its
> >         actually not very intuitive that you have to scroll down to see
> more
> >         info and I wonder how many people actually do it. Richard /
> >         Anita what
> >         do you think?
> >
> >     I would like to see the "green" buttons up a little higher so no
> >     scroll is required. Maybe a sidebar with stacked buttons (doesn't
> >     have to even have a border).
> >
> > Yeah some side space for the green buttons and a high profile item (e.g.
> > FOSS4G, crowd funding drive etc.) would be great. It would also be good
> > to get the sponsors logos somehow visible (I appreciate I am probably
> > trying to bend the laws of pixel space here :-) ).
>
> While I agree with you both that we should revisit front- and
> landingpages, please keep in mind that we are 'responsive' now. Meaning
> good usable on phones and tablets, on which you are used to scroll down.
> All is Bootstrap based, so a row/section with 12 columns that when you
> resize your window will fall apart in separate rows, usable on smaller
> devices.
>
> So we could create a 'section' in which the green buttons are put
> stacked in 5(4) columns and then a 'high profile item/ad space' for the
> other 7(8) columns, something like:
> http://imgur.com/ouEhdsJ
>
> Personally I do not like these huge dark/light gray buttons, they are
> too big in my opinion, and on the landingpages (other then front), we
> actually have a double navigation structure because those buttons also
> appear as a sort of menu in top, which upon click only bring you to the
> button. But maybe that is something for Eva to solve.
>
>
Yeah I don't mind if we come up with another more convenient way to make
these things more visible. Perhaps one of the design orientated folks could
come up with something. Perhaps we could put sponsor logos and a subtitle
link to sponsor us as a page in the carousel as they may actually end up
with more exposure than being way down at the bottom there.



> According to other ideas, please just try them out, building a html is
> pretty easy. Themes/html for landing and frontpages are here:
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/tree/master/themes/qgis-theme
> Just try and share an image of it with us to decide.
>
> @Tim, reason you do not see it is because I try to be gentle to the
> server disks (there is an issue there) and do not rebuild that often.
>
>
OK no worries thanks.


> I'm planning to let point DNS to qgis2 for a while so we could maybe
> upgrade qgis server (which then only hosts redmine/wiki/git stuff?) if
> somebody volunteers for that. After the cleanup and the hardware is ok
> again we could DNS point to both qgis and qgis2?
>

Or just migrate to qgis2 completely and publish our docker image to docker
so if we need to do disaster recovery we can just pull it, run and go? I
know telescience supposedly has better hardware infrastructure but maybe
being able to rapidly redeploy is enough resilience for us?

Regards

Tim


>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>



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