On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Florent Daignière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I personnaly won't work on it for now. The main point against our > current website is that it's not community-friendly... Let's see if the > community feels involved and will contribute to the presumably > community-friendly sandbox.
Not sure that this makes much sense. Seems like you are saying that unless the "community" builds up the new site so that its better than the current site, then the "community" doesn't deserve a better website. Hmm. To paraphrase Margaret Thatcher, "There is no such thing as community", its all just individuals. Freenet needs a website worthy of a respectable and reasonably well funded free software project in 2008, unfortunately it doesn't have one right now. Maybe Drupal is the answer, maybe not. Frankly I'm not convinced that migrating to a CMS really solves the big problems with the website at all. Either way, its up to us to come up with a website that newbies feel comfortable with. We've been very lucky with funding from large donors over the years, but sooner or later that luck is going to run out. We can't assume that when the Google donation runs out in 6 months, we will find someone else willing to donate $10k+. We have 6 months to build up enough of a userbase that we can get >$3k/month in donations reliably, or we can wave goodbye to Matthew's full-time attention. Call me a pessimist, but this project is in big trouble if we lose Matthew. Having an appealing website that efficiently turns newbies into dedicated Freenet users (and donors) isn't just some nice thing to make us all feel better, its a requirement for the survival of the project. Ian. -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +1 512 422 3588 Skype: sanity _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
