On Dec 16, 2013, at 11:59 PM, Tomaz Muraus <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Ceph is working on a 'ceph brag' tool: http://wiki.ceph.com/01Planning/02Blueprints/Firefly/Ceph-Brag We could do something like this, it would be yet more work, but would allow libcloud users to report their usage automatically. > 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. > We could request a planet from apache infra, and syndicate our posts to it, then display the list on the webpage. I am not a huge fan of planet (e.g http://planet.apache.org/cloudstack/ ) but there has to be a way to syndicate our own blogs.. > >> 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. >>>> >>>> >> >>
