Awesome...! Shoot out a URL when its presentable.
________________________________ From: Radu Cotescu <[email protected]> To: devicemap-dev <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 4:41 PM Subject: Re: FYI, added a downloads page to the DeviceMap website 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 >> >
