Hi, As some of you may have already noticed, http://gyrus.gnome.cl silently disappeared. I realized of this about one week ago, but don't really know how long has been since the site is down (the fact that google doesn't even list the site tells me that it's been a while, sigh).
As a consequence of this, all the tarballs which weren't published in the GNOME FTP server[1], and the few Debian packages we had, are lost, together with the website, and screenshots. Cheers. Fortunately, I've tagged all the releases I've made in the CVS repository, so I can still generate the old packages and am planning to upload them to the GNOME FTP server. Therefore, there is no real lost on this website abduction, and it'll be only a matter of time. Now, let's be honest. The old website was really ugly and too 90's. So this is the perfect excuse to sit my ass and write a new site with a more GNOME'ish interface. Here is where I need you to help me, because I am pretty bad at web design. I can only visualize what I want for the website, but I'm too dumb with Gimp to do something really pretty. Would you like to be the hero of the day? So, this is what I'm planning to do: 1. Write a simple website based in the traditional GNOME stylesheet, using only HTML and CSS. You can see many examples of these websites here[2][3][4]. 2. Take some screenshots of the latest version (0.3.6) to be added in the webpage. The screenshots should be taken using the Clearlooks theme, and should show the main features of the program (saving sessions, setting quotas, editing acl's, deleting orphaned mailboxes, generating overquota reports, etc). 3. Generate and upload the old tarballs to the GNOME FTP server, so they don't get lost again. 4. Find a proper place to upload the website. I'm thinking of www.gnome.org/projects/ for this, but still have to think well about it. If you are skilled on CSS, HTML, or Gimp, then I ask you to please help me with (1). If you are proficient at taking screenshots, then please help me with (2). I'll take care of (3) and (4), and I'll buy the beers the next time we meet. I've cc'ed to the GNOME Chile mailing list because I know there's a bunch of great artists there and a lot of new blood looking for funny ways to contribute to our community. Guys, I need you now! :-) If anyone is interested on helping, please subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [5] and tell us what are you willing to do, to avoid duplication of work. Thank you! Claudio [1] http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gyrus/ [2] http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/ [3] http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/ [4] http://www.gnome.org/~pvillavi/hipo/ [5] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gyrus-list -- Claudio Saavedra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
