The confluence ID will be 'dsh' AFAIK... at least that's my p.a.o login ID.

Cheers
Daniel

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 6:56 PM, David Blevins <[email protected]> wrote:
> That is a big help!  I'm headed to the airport in 5 minutes.  But if someone 
> can get you admin access to confluence you could start playing around with 
> the template.
>
> Jean-louis and Jonathan are admins as are a few others (those are just the 
> ones I remember adding recently).  They could hook you up.
>
> Shoot me your confluence id.  Maybe there'll be net in the airport.
>
> -David
>
> On Oct 2, 2011, at 9:07 AM, dsh wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried to extract the relevant images [1] from the mockup. Does that
>> already help creating a template? Next step would be creating a CSS
>> for the various cast shadows in the left and right navigation panes.
>>
>> [1] http://people.apache.org/~dsh/oejbsite/
>>
>> Cheers
>> Daniel
>>
>> PS: I noticed that the mockup did contain some blur because of the
>> JPEG format used to save the image.
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 12:38 AM, David Blevins <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Oct 1, 2011, at 3:02 PM, dsh wrote:
>>>
>>>> So call out the problem statement, the constraints and the final goal
>>>> in the beginning and you don't need to fear to having to fix whatever
>>>> pattern later on ;)
>>>
>>> That would be the perfect scenario, yes. :)
>>>
>>>> PS: I suspect the goal at hand is -- as I learned to understand it
>>>> while reading this thread again -- to turn the mockup image into some
>>>> templates to get the website online ASAP.
>>>
>>> That's the idea.  Or "an" idea at least :)
>>>
>>>
>>> -David
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 11:42 PM, David Blevins <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 1, 2011, at 1:59 PM, dsh wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I wouldn't call it perfectionism. It is just that the constraints and
>>>>>> goals weren't pretty clear at the beginning of this thread ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> Yep.  Vaguely stated at best.
>>>>>
>>>>>> The icons I requested aren't even related to the website itself...
>>>>>
>>>>> Right, was targeting the "collect ideas and get new proposal" statement 
>>>>> which is dangerously close to "let's throw away what they gave us and try 
>>>>> again".  No one ever said that, just making sure we don't start a 
>>>>> "bikeshed" pattern[1].
>>>>>
>>>>> Probably the best way to phrase it:
>>>>>
>>>>>   We can paint the bikeshed as many times as we want
>>>>>
>>>>> The fallacy of the bikeshed metaphore is that somehow everyone needs to 
>>>>> agree on a color before you can paint the bikeshed.   When in reality its 
>>>>> a simple task and you can just paint the bikeshed and keep repainting it 
>>>>> for as long as it takes.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -David
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshed
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>> Daniel
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 10:54 PM, David Blevins <[email protected]> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> FYI, to all.  Chatting with Sally who does all the Apache announcements 
>>>>>>> and it looks like either the 5th or 6th will be the date.  Anything 
>>>>>>> later than that and JavaOne is essentially over.  So if we don't have 
>>>>>>> something in place by then, we'll end up launching with the old site.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If we get too picky I think we're going to learn a hard lesson in 
>>>>>>> perfectionism.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My recommendation would be for us to get the actual template files for 
>>>>>>> the site as shown in the pic.  Someone here can work on getting that 
>>>>>>> turned into a velocity template and up on the site.  Then we can push a 
>>>>>>> new round of requirements at the designers.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -David
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Oct 1, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Jean-Louis MONTEIRO wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Didn't get time yesterday to get something better. But, I can collect 
>>>>>>>> all
>>>>>>>> your ideas, requirements, etc and get a new proposal from our 
>>>>>>>> designers.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hopefully on Monday.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Jean Louis
>>>>>>>> Le 1 oct. 2011 22:27, "David Blevins" <[email protected]> a 
>>>>>>>> écrit :
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Oct 1, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Romain Manni-Bucau wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I would like something more dynamic, maybe more orange like our bean.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> We can certainly do that. I expect we'll keep playing with the site 
>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>> possible TomEE logos for the next few weeks.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> We just need something new in place for the announcement even if it's 
>>>>>>>>> only
>>>>>>>> temporary.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -David
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Le 1 oct. 2011 20:51, "Karan Malhi" <[email protected]> a écrit :
>>>>>>>>>>> I love it!. +1 on this template. Will share my ideas in another 
>>>>>>>>>>> email
>>>>>>>>>>> regarding TomEE launch.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 11:03 AM, David Blevins 
>>>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> Jean-Louis forwarded me this image. The only text was in French, 
>>>>>>>>>>>> which
>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>>>> don't speak, but it's pretty safe bet to know what it is ;)
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> http://openejb.staging.apache.org/images/newsite-tan.jpg
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Looks nice! Way better than what we have and would be a great 
>>>>>>>>>>>> template
>>>>>>>>>> to use for the launch.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> If we could get "TomEE" worked into the logo, I think that'd be 
>>>>>>>>>>>> perfect
>>>>>>>>>> for the launch. We can always do something else later, but this is at
>>>>>>>> least
>>>>>>>>>> new and different enough.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> -David
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sep 15, 2011, at 2:29 AM, Jean-Louis MONTEIRO wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> FYI, I asked someone in my company to help us with the design of 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> new
>>>>>>>>>> web
>>>>>>>>>>>>> site.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> If we could get something sexy to accompany the upcoming Apache
>>>>>>>> OpenEJB
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 4.0.0, that'd be great.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jean-Louis
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Karan Singh Malhi
>>>>>>>>>>> twitter.com/KaranSinghMalhi
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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