On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 11:17 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > Hi Jane > > On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 11:04 +0200, Jane Weideman wrote: > > What I have seen so far look pretty good, and once the colour selection > > are in it will look even better. > > > > Are you going to publish a link for people to review and crit it? > > Yes. At the moment it's fairly pointless, as we have just about got our > static content from the current site. On the theme side, we're halfway > between our current theme, and the spreadfirefox theme, so it looks very > ugly, to open it up for crit right now would mean that we would just get > a big bunch of pointless e-mails telling us how ugly our site is :)
heh, ok point taken :) > We should be ready for comments by the end of next week. By then we > should have some fun stuff to show, as well. Great. > > Good, yes it is important for the site to stay dynamic, up to date and > > relevant. It will help to draw ppl to the site and our community and > > will hopefully hook them in. With any luck that will encourage them to > > participate and hopefully help us with the updates and developments. > > Yes, and even small things like a banner that shows some advice or cool > information about Edubuntu that changes daily, can make the site > interesting. There's quite a few things like that we'll be implementing. > Watch this space :) Yay, I was hoping to implement the fortune cookie banner on the current wiki, but there was some technical constraint. I had spent some time gathering interesting and inspiring education quotes to be listed randomly... https://wiki.edubuntu.org/FortuneCookies > > > We originally proposed that we launch the new website on a day or two > > > before the Dapper release. If the dapper release is postponed, I suggest > > > that we stick with our old launch date, rather than postponing it > > > together with the release. > > > > I agree, I don't see the sense in waiting a further 6 weeks to launch, > > and since there is a lot of anticipation for an April release, let's at > > least have a new site to show, if nothing else. > > Great! If we're not going to aim for the launch anymore, then I'd even > be happy to launch sooner than 20 April, once the Edubuntu community > approves the new site. Ok well let aim for on or before 20 April. ...is this going to need a cake? http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/52389874/ -- JaneW _____________ Jane Weideman mobile: +27 83 779 7800 Canonical Ltd. -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel