I take what Andreas says as my words too. I work all day long with inkscape, html, css and js. You can count on me!
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 18:10, Andreas Nilsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Christopher Warner wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On 04/21/2009 03:45 PM, David Bain wrote: >> >> 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). >> >> >> 1) No one person can do this job, >> >> 2) Sponsoring someone to do it is the wrong approach, as it will >> start falling apart again as soon as the contract is over, >> >> 3) $15,000 can buy a contractor's services for a very short period >> of time. Nothing close to what it takes to get the job done. What >> the Drupal guys are doing is to raise funds to sponsor sprints. >> That is, travel reimbursements. No one gets paid to work on it. >> >> We are certainly interested in doing website hackfests. But in >> the past, there were not enough people (read: 3) to fly to a >> hackfest to begin with. >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> See above. >> >> behdad >> >> >> To add my two cents I agree with Murray in the fact that this is something >> simple. The problem is and has always been time. So in a sense I agree with >> David as well.. No matter what the chosen technology the problem is one of >> time and everyone working on this thus far has only gotten short stints of >> time here and there. It's simply not enough to maintain the site. >> >> So my personal feelings aside it's not the technology; it's not like Gnome >> can't find people capable of writing html or dealing with Plone or some >> other CMS. It's that we need a group of people dedicated to getting an >> initial version through with sufficient time to do so. A developer sprint >> would be nice but i've tried that on numerous occasion and it hasn't worked. >> >> There simply needs to be a dedicated team with the time to work on the >> redesign to completion. If that can't be done, this will lag on until then >> and we'll have these discussions every 6 months. > > Here is the designer. > I'm going to put other GNOME design stuff aside in order to focus on > gnome.org up until 3.0. > Going to start work in HTML, then we can put it in a CMS or wiki or whatever > later. Worked for a couple of GNOME sites before. > Will start running with this now, as I've grown a bit tired of waiting for > stuff to happen. Hopefully others are interested in helping this get done as > well. > We'll see how it goes. > - Andreas > _______________________________________________ > gnome-web-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list > -- Vinicius Depizzol <[email protected]> http://vinicius.depizzol.com.br _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
