On 02/13/2010 04:08 PM, Ian Clarke wrote:
> Several problems:
> 
> We've had a lot of GSoC students, but we've never had a designer.
> 

I don't mean to design, but to code the fred-side of the UI.

> Pupok is only available now because her current employer is shutting down
> and she doesn't have much work to do for them.  She almost certainly will
> not be available to work on this after April.
> 
> We have to take this opportunity now, or it could be another decade before
> we have another opportunity to bring Freenet's UI up to the standards of
> contemporary software.
> 

Well, I don't there will be enough time to get a satisfactory backend out
before then. Would it be possible to build say, template/frontend files or
something, that people can build the backend to later on? (think of it as "Good
UIs are designed starting from the user's needs, and working backwards" taken
to the extreme)

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