Replies are in-line. On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:17 PM, John Carr <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey, > > Not sure what to say other than - this is looking good! > > Any thoughts about where “who’s using libcloud” fits in? > The page is still there (http://lcv2.dev.tomaz.me/whois-using.html), but it's just not directly linked to. I think it is good to show case projects and companies using Libcloud so we should preserve this page. One idea I was toying around is to add some company logos to the home page and underneath, add "See other projects and companies who use Libcloud" link which links to this page. I think images would also help with the homepage look. Currently we have 3 main "content row" which look pretty dry since they mostly feature text. > I really like the new blog, but it looks weird with so many short blog > posts. Can we backfill the old release announcements with more texts? Or > have a longer “libcloud roadmap” post ready to go? > I agree, blog page does look kinda weird now. It looks like we need support for Amazon Mechanical Turk API in Libcloud so I can outsource back-filling of the old posts :P Joking aside, it should be relatively to parse mbox files and use the content to populate the release announcement blog posts. In any case, blog page still needs some styling / design love. > Cheers, > John > > On 16 Dec 2013, at 21:29, Tomaz Muraus <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Bumping this thread for all the people who might have missed it over the > > weekend. > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Tomaz Muraus <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Over this weekend I have finally started to work on a new Libcloud > website. > >> > >> Website is not finished yet, but I think I have made decent progress and > >> some feedback would be appreciated at this point. > >> > >> Live preview: http://lcv2.dev.tomaz.me/ > >> Source code: https://github.com/Kami/libcloud-website-v2/ > >> Task list: https://github.com/Kami/libcloud-website-v2/issues > >> > >> New website highlights: > >> > >> - New and fully responsive design powered by Bootstrap 3 > >> - More modern and user friendly design and typography > >> - Website is now powered by Jekyll static website / blogging engine > >> - New website now features a blog > >> - Content has been updated > >> > >> Why move away from the Apache CMS to Jekyll? > >> > >> Jekyll is way more powerful and flexible. On top of that it has way > bigger > >> user base and plugin ecosystem. > >> > >> Website will still be stored in a version control system so benefits we > >> get from that are preserved. > >> > >> Content > >> > >> I have updated a bunch of existing content, but I'm pretty sure there is > >> still a lot of place for improvements. Feel free to submit pull requests > >> with your changes (typo fixes, grammar fixes, content improvements, > other > >> improvements, ...). > >> > >> News / Blog page > >> > >> On the existing website we don't have blog functionality, but we have a > >> static "News" page (http://libcloud.apache.org/news.html) which mostly > >> links to the release announcements on the mailing list. > >> > >> Jekyll makes it very easy to add support for blogging so I have replaced > >> "News" section with a fully featured Blog. > >> > >> I have back-filled this new blog with the old release announcement > posts. > >> Those posts are very short and only contain a link to the mailing list > >> thread, but going forward, we will be able to add proper blog posts and > >> release announcements. > >> > >> Feedback wanted > >> > >> As noted above, feedback would be very much appreciated at this point. > You > >> can find some existing open tasks / issues on the Github issues page - > >> https://github.com/Kami/libcloud-website-v2/issues. > >> > >> Feel free to post your feedback and submit pull requests with your > changes > >> and improvements. > >> > >> > >
