What's up with zopefoundation.org - especially since it's changed since I looked at it yesterday? :P)
A On 8/22/06 1:43 PM, "Martijn Faassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > It's nearing september, and I'd like to start some work on zope.org, in > particular www.zope.org/foundation. I'm looking for volunteers to help. > > As you all probably know, we have a Zope Foundation, of which I'm a > board member (representative for the committer members). Aroldo > Souza-Leite is also on the board as chairman. > > Aroldo and I are the board members responsible for the zope.org website > committee. The task of the zope.org committee is to improve the zope.org > web presence. Aroldo and I won't be doing the work or decision making > alone, but since we have the backing of the foundation, we can make > decisions stick. Volunteers are welcome to join this committee! > > One of the first tasks at hand is to improve the presence of the Zope > Foundation on the web. We currently have a section here: > > http://www.zope.org/foundation > > This website doesn't look very pretty at all. My proposal is to > reorganize it, have some introductory text, put in links to relevant > information resources, such as mailing lists (including this one), and > to stick a nice layout around it. > > This project will serve two purposes: > > * to create a nice website for the foundation. > > * serve as an example and test case for the wider zope.org renewal project. > > So, please help us out. > > Layout > ------ > > I propose we use Tom Von Lahndorff's design for the foundation website. > For the purposes of the foundation site we should strip it down: > > * no login necessary > > * no search (unless we integrate google-based search, perhaps) > > * possibly no drop-down menus at the top. We could simply have links > there, or possibly a standard left-hand side navigation. This design is > the top page; we need to see a sub-page design as well. > > Tom, are you still there? This time we're going to use what you made > quickly, if you're willing! > > Structure and text > ------------------ > > Aroldo and I (Aroldo, I'm volunteering you :) are willing to work on a > bunch of restructured text documents that introduce the zope foundation > and set up the site structure. > > Technology > ---------- > > I've said this before, and I'll just repeat it again: let's try to avoid > technology discussions as much as we can. Most of us, including myself, > are techies, so it's attractive to do this, but we just want to put a > website up. This doesn't require any new technology, nor does it require > a heavy-duty CMS. > > To break my own rule on no technology discussions right way: > > I propose letting www.zope.org/foundation point to a Apache directory, > where we maintain HTML files. We will then generate such HTML files from > restructured text we maintain in the zope SVN repository, using a simple > script that drives docutils. > > If you want examples of websites that are managed this way and I have > personal experience with, check out the following places on codespeak: > > http://codespeak.net/z3/ > > http://codespeak.net/lxml/ > > Since we're not aiming for a big site, this should be sufficient technology. > > For the larger zope.org, we may need something else, or we may not. > Let's treat the foundation website as a trial case here too, and see how > we like it. > > There's one alternative to this approach that will also work on the > short term: a volunteer that's willing to work with zope.org and > integrate the layout and text and structure we want into existing > zope.org infrastructure. If someone volunteers to work on this, I'd be > happy to do it that way as well. Does anyone volunteer? > > Any other technological approaches require more setup and I'd like to > defer them for the time being. We can take them up when we tackle > zope.org proper. > > I hope we can all have this together in a couple of weeks, so let's > start working! > > Regards, > > Martijn > _______________________________________________ > Zope-web maillist - Zope-web@zope.org > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-web _______________________________________________ Zope-web maillist - Zope-web@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-web