Second contest: website redesign

2007-08-23 Thread Sébastien Cevey
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Anders Gustafsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, The discussion about the second contest quietly faded away, but I think it's time to revive it now that SoC is over (not merged, but officially finished at least)! So let's see what's to be done before we c

Re: Second contest: website redesign

2007-08-23 Thread Sham Chukoury
On 23/08/2007, at 10:38PM, Sébastien Cevey wrote: > I think that separating dev and user websites is a good idea. Most > other projects do it that way, and it seems to work fine. I agree. I used to be of the opinion that having a user-oriented site, as well as a developer oriented site, would

Re: Second contest: website redesign

2007-08-23 Thread Dan Chokola
On 8/23/07, Sham Chukoury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 23/08/2007, at 10:38PM, Sébastien Cevey wrote: > > > I think that separating dev and user websites is a good idea. Most > > other projects do it that way, and it seems to work fine. > > I agree. I used to be of the opinion that having a use

Re: Second contest: website redesign

2007-08-23 Thread Tobias Rundström
On 8/23/07, Sham Chukoury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > XMMS2 seems to appeal to those mostly in and around the 'college/ > university student' demographic. I think there are some reasons for > this particular situation... Music players have been done to death > over the past decade - most

Re: Second contest: website redesign

2007-08-23 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:12:37PM +0200, Tobias Rundström wrote: > What's your view of XMMS2? It's all about quality (elegant, robust, efficient) and client/server for me. I'll take API over GUI any day. //Peter -- ___ Xmms2-devel mailing list Xmms2

Re: Second contest: website redesign

2007-08-23 Thread Anders Waldenborg
Peter Stuge wrote: > I'll take API over GUI any day. X2TS++ (Add this as an XMMS2 T-Shirt!) (Or maybe the geekier variant: API > GUI) anders -- ___ Xmms2-devel mailing list Xmms2-devel@lists.xmms.se http://lists.xmms.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmm

Re: Second contest: website redesign

2007-08-23 Thread Peter Stuge
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:09:58AM +0200, Anders Waldenborg wrote: > (Or maybe the geekier variant: API > GUI) I like. Maybe enough to actually buy a T-shirt. :) //Peter -- ___ Xmms2-devel mailing list Xmms2-devel@lists.xmms.se http://lists.xmms.se/cg

Re: Second contest: website redesign

2007-08-23 Thread Dan Chokola
On 8/23/07, Dan Chokola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/23/07, Sham Chukoury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 23/08/2007, at 10:38PM, Sébastien Cevey wrote: > > > > > I think that separating dev and user websites is a good idea. Most > > > other projects do it that way, and it seems to work fin

Re: Second contest: website redesign

2007-08-23 Thread Sébastien Cevey
At Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:12:37 +0200, =?UTF-8?Q?Tobias_Rundstr=C3=B6m?= wrote: 'morning all, > How do we want to profile XMMS2? I think that one of the major pro's > for XMMS2 is that we don't have to profile it with one face because > of the abstraction The abstraction just means that we have to

Re: Second contest: website redesign

2007-08-23 Thread Dan Chokola
On 8/23/07, Sébastien Cevey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The abstraction just means that we have to profile it at a higher > level than mere arguments such as "it looks like iTunes" (Rhythmbox), > "you can read slashdot with it" (Songbird) or "it has a 3D cover > browser" (iTunes). However, we mus

Re: Second contest: website redesign

2007-08-23 Thread Sébastien Cevey
At Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:59:56 +0800, Sham Chukoury wrote: > Music players have been done to death over the past decade - most > hardcore coders aren't really interested in this anymore. I don't think it's true that "music players have been done to death over the past decade". And I don't think tha

Re: Second contest: website redesign

2007-08-24 Thread Peter Stuge
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:58:22AM +0900, Sébastien Cevey wrote: > However, we must be careful to provide _concrete_ [GitML(TM)] > arguments and not abstract ones for users. Very true. > In particular, the argument Peter gave: > > Peter> It's all about [quality (elegant, robust, efficient) and]

Re: Second contest: website redesign

2007-08-26 Thread Sham Chukoury
On 24/08/2007, at 5:12AM, Tobias Rundström wrote: > My view of XMMS2 is the following: I do it because it's fun! This is > the only reason I ever did it. Of course I will be happy if we gain > more attention, but we should gain attention on the right things. Look > for example at bmpx, they have a