Hi, I've started working on improving the website, but I'm doing this in my own corner when I have a bit of free time. It's based on Bootstrap with custom theming, to suite us.
Will ping you all when I have something demo-able (in at least two weeks, as I'm on PTO next week). Regards, Radu On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, that falls under the "Improve Website" ones. > > You'll find plenty of Eclipse projects including the new front page where > Bootstrap was applied. > Similar to either Unit-API (our JSR 363) > http://unitsofmeasurement.github.io/ or JavaMoney for JSR 354: > http://javamoney.org just to mention 2 active JSRs where a public website > uses GitHub and therefore a slightly similar site mechanism as described > below, or Agorava: http://agorava.org, also backed by GitHub. > > Btw, DeltaSpike uses more or less the same Bootstrap template: > https://deltaspike.apache.org/ If you switch to some pages, it even shows > a bug or layout glitch (maybe the design was intended for a 800x600 screen, > too and never adjusted?[?]) I noticed both at JavaMoney and Unit-API > (where I was careful in most cases to layout around it) in a similar way. > The top header "hops" when you have a page that contains more or less > content, could be with and without scrolling, I can't say but it > consistently affects hundreds or thousands of projects using that template. > > It would be awesome if based on one of the best device repositories > available (if you take true Open Source then it's even fewer) we could make > the DeviceMap site mobile-enabled and show, we "eat our own dogfood"[?] > > Not all of the "blog" like impression most of these makes may have to be > used the same way. A second mailing list or any other form of announcement > for "users" could be a good addition. > At the moment this list is for developers, most of them core committers, > but if you want to get people involved around use cases and how to use it > rather than contributing to DeviceMap itself, it could be a good sign to > add a "users" list. Aside from the mailing list via Google Groups (which > was never used for discussions as much as this one) the Twitter account was > pretty succesful with close to 400 followers. Neither the old "Wurfl > Project" nor a new commercial SM account come close, and they have at least > part time regular people working for it, OpenDDR is a self-runner for now, > and after my effort shifted to DeviceMap I rarely post there, yet people > still seem to follow and not many abandoned it, especially decicion-makers > at Facebook and other companies are loyals followers. > > Bertrand among most others has a personal user, not sure, if creating one > for the project makes sense or not? Otherwise the hashtag #DeviceMap (with > #Apache in most cases) could be fine, there are some Twitter queries to > display that if you want on a page. > > Werner > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I meant to explain how to do that but it was easier to just do it ;-) >> >> The downloads page is at >> http://incubator.apache.org/devicemap/download/ - it uses the Apache >> mirroring system to select a mirror based on geolocation. >> >> The content is at >> >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/devicemap/site/trunk/content/devicemap/download/ >> - further releases can be added to index.mdtext. >> >> See >> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/devicemap/site/trunk/WEBSITE-HOWTO.txt >> for how to edit that content. >> >> -Bertrand >> > >
