Is there anything wrong with collecting donations in order to sponsor a single person or organization to implement the site. The Drupal guys have had to raise funds in order to sponsor redesign their own site! http://drupal.org/node/356002 (their target is $15,000).
I don't know if I speak for everyone, but I'm willing and have been willing to help out but it has come down to whether I can afford the time. On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/21/2009 03:18 PM, Frederic Peters wrote: > >> Behdad Esfahbod wrote: >> >> I found that to be a strange response to me saying (in that same email) >>>> that we should not block on choosing _any_ CMS. We don't need a CMS to >>>> get the new structure and content online. A suitable CMS would be >>>> _nice_, but it's not a blocker. Lack of committed web people is the >>>> blocker. >>>> >>> Any reason not simply go with MediaWiki? We already know that the wiki >>> is where everything happens. Why not use it for everything? >>> >> >> From my point of view I18n was deemed important (and a big gain >>> >> over the current scheme, and I agree wholeheartedly with that) >> and the i18n story of wiki sites is usually quite poor. >> > > I don't think we'll ever get fully translated pages other than maybe the > front page. And only if the front page is static. See GNU's... > > What's the point, really? Let each language team have their own subspace > under gnome.org and welcome their own users and have their own content. > Like how wikipedia works. > > But then I don't care much about chosen technology, and I agree with >> Murray, the problem is lack of web people (or lack of familiarity with >> web technologies by current GNOME hackers[1]). Whatever the technology >> is, we first need people commited to achieve something. >> > > We don't have web people, and we won't get any by waiting another ten > years. Lets just use our hackers to populate the site. Or at least make it > easier for our ED to edit the site. Wikis solve both. > > Cheers, > behdad > > > Cheers, >> Frederic >> >> [1] but this is, slowly, changing. >> > _______________________________________________ > gnome-web-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list > -- SplashStart - Professional Websites. Starting Now. http://www.splashstart.com
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