Hi,
I've done a very quick mock-up mostly using the Accepted
projects...it's located at
http://website.openoffice.org/tryouts/Kay/projects/
Thanks a lot - looks good already. Adding some graphics (like the
quickstarter/OOo application icon for the
products, the globe with the speech bubble for the NL/l10n-
projects, the
globes-on-stick-logo for the extensions [1], a megaphone for the
marketing, a life buoy for support) to lighten it up a bit (text-
only is
a little boring and overwhelming) and the page is even better.
good idea! I'll see what I can come up with.
It's a good page, Kay, and with the graphics will be even better. :)
I'd would add to that: please be careful adding different styles of
graphics, that results imho in messy layouts (I personally prefer
minimal over bloated). Also: if it is hard to find the right graphic,
don't use meaningless graphics. You can put it online without graphics
if you ask me, we can always update it later. It's already much friendlier.
It's hard to come up with hard and fast categories, but I'd suggest
shorter names, since there is more description further down. For example:
Products
Support
i18n
Extension
Promotion
Good suggestion, I'd only wouldn't call it i18n, but the less cryptic
"Internationalization"
One word grabs the eye, then they click on it to find out more. ;)
Every header could have, before the seperate projects are listed, a
short introduction, which may explain how the projects interrelate or
something... or what kind of tasks one may expect in these subprojects.
I don't know if QA fits with i18n, but it doesn't really fit anywhere
else, either. :S Certainly a lot of the QA time is spent on non-
English builds, but it applies to the default builds, as well.
I'd suggest adding it to support... while it is quite different from
writing end-user documentation, yet I believe QA attracts the same kind
of contributors: namely those who are quite knowledgeable about OOo, but
aren't hardcore programmers too.
Furthermore, since the product components category already contains
quite some projects, maybe it is good to make some subgroupings...
Furthermore, I think dba should be among the products-category too (it's
now listed under extension, but is actually a product).
g.,
Maarten
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Maarten Brouwers (murb)
http://www.murb.nl
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