On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 19:56 +0100, Frank Peters wrote: > Aurélien Pocheville wrote: > > > I'm Aurélien Pocheville, french phd student. > > > > I'm willing to give some help to the dev project. I'm almost exclusively > > interested in templates (more in Impress Templates than in other). I'm > > also quite interested in the website part presenting templates. > > Here is what I think I could do for the project: > > 1/ Revamp the templates page, with screenshots and a more modern way of > > presentation. No offense intended, but I believe the current > > presentation looks not good at all. People are are first looking at > > In this context I'd like to raise two points: > > Why are templates part of the documentation project? Shouldn't they > rather be with art.oo.o?
No. Templates are here from the beginning. If Marketing, and hence the subproject art, feel that theirs is a better place, the leads of the marketing project can ask. > > I would like to suggest a revamp of the doc.oo.o site in the > near future. No offense, Gerry, you're doing a great job, but I > think we should separate the portals for users seeking help and > contributors offering help more clearly. I am not alone, am I? Seems like it most days. There are many observers who, if they have the time and energy, could ask for a development role and take over the maintenance of the webpages. With respect to portals, I think that the documentation hosting of On-line Help is a bit counter-productive but it too is historical. Perhaps you could propose to the council that a new project be created. This, of course, would mean many changes to Issue Tracker to accommodate such an event. > > Aurélien, if you have any ideas about the "more modern way of > presenting", maybe we can use that for a consistent presentation > of the doc.oo.o pages? > I have not read Aurelien's intro yet but think that any ideas presented should be considered. However, who is going to implement them? Aurelien, do you wish to take on the task? > Any comments? See above. > > > graphics and look&feel, authors and information about installing the > > templates are relevant, but less important. I also believe that the 2.x > > templates&cliparts should be pushed more in front. > > 2/ Work on more templates for Impress, based on ideas taken on the web, > > on MS-Offices templates (they already have done the research of what > > users are looking for us) and ideas in this list. Maybe also on some > > artwork&cliparts. > > 3/ Try to integrate more templates with the distribution of OpenOffice. > > I know this can be quite difficult, but in the current state people > > wanting to create a new Impress document are left with two samples. This > > not a very large number... If this implies giving away my work to Sun, > > I'm ok with it, if it helps adoption of OOo. > > You will never be "giving away your work to Sun". The utmost you do is > to *share* your copyright with Sun. You will never lose anything. > > > I wanted to start a mockup of the template page, therefore I downloaded > > with CVS a fresh checkout of the documentation repository. The problem > > is, the copy I get is not what is currently on the website, nor what the > > online CVS browser is displaying. I'm using tortoiseCVS latest on > > windows, and my CVSROOT is this one > > :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs with a module : > > 'documentation' without ''. My copy is not in sync with the website... > > Anyone has an idea of what is getting wrong ? Currently I'm stuck at > > this stage... > > Sorry, but I cannot help you with your original problem. The files > should be in documentation/www > > > Frank > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenOffice.org
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