* Ian Clarke <ian.clarke at gmail.com> [2008-05-12 23:04:59]: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Florent Daigni?re > <nextgens at freenetproject.org> 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. >
Heh I'm trying to make things move forward here... sorry if that sounded rude or inappropriate but yeah... I think we need external help to make any progress here. Most of the current contributors are coders and don't have good web-designing skills ... or don't want to do it. > 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. We all agree that the current website sucks. > 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. > Me neither... but Michael suggested it and no one strongly objected this time. Last time someone did suggest it I was the one who did object... and let's face it, the website hasn't evolved much since then... so presumably I might have been wrong. > 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. Well what's the solution then? To make Matthew work on the website? to send a call for help on @announce (possibly a better phrased than mine)? Shall I forget about the drupal vhost right-now and delete it? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080513/93143d5b/attachment.pgp>
