Hi Florian, Am 07.06.10 16:38, schrieb Florian Riedl: > Dear members of the rsyslog mailing list. > > > > My name is Florian Riedl and I work for Adiscon, the creators of rsyslog. > > > > We are currently in the process of creating a new website for rsyslog. We > found the old website to be not comprehendible enough and the design was > pretty old and far from any other current web experience you can find out > there in the web. > That is generally a good idea. I tried to find out if professional support for rsyslog is offered (and did not succeed), stumbled upon at least one dead link, and found the structure hard to understand. And the look and feel is ... somewhat antique, to say the best. > > > And since rsyslog is a open source project, we want the community behind > rsyslog to be involved in the process of developing the new website. > Well, to some extent this sounds like a bad idea - if I may say so. Technicians (like most of us community guys are) are simply unable to develop understandible information structures and visualization strategies. The current website sufferes exactly from this: it is structured from the perspective of the people offering something, not from the perspective of the people looking for something. I hope being so brusque is not too much of a problem. > We want you to think about some ideas we have how other ideas could be > achieved. Currently, we need to discuss the following: > > > > - Design - Primarily the template with color schemes and graphics > > - How far back should we preserve the changelog, news entries and > downloads? > > - Content additions that would be useful? > For someone coming from rsyslog to adiscon an explanation of how rsyslog and monitorware are related would be useful. > > > We would be happy about just every kind of ideas and opinions. We would also > appreciate a lot if someone is willing to aid us in regards of graphics or > maintaining the site itself. Contributions to the website will be mentioned > of course. > > > > The new website is currently available under http://new.rsyslog.com. > Just one more attempt at making you dislike me: The adiscon website should be designed to offer professional services, that means to target at enterprise customers. I personally think you should desperately aim at a professional design. This kind of homemade "construction kit" look is not appealing to the target people: enterprise customers. I am on the way to persuade my current customer (large national carrier) to deploy Rsyslog and buy professional support for it, but both websites (old and new) would be a real obstacle to that. I hope I can finish this via the feature track. :-)
Okay, I shut up now. *cough* Dirk _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
