From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D547F1382CD for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 05:48:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0FE9E05C1; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 05:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 97119E05F2 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 05:47:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (c-75-73-165-249.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [75.73.165.249]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dberkholz) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 869A933D9EC for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 05:47:43 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 23:47:41 -0600 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...) Message-ID: <20130105054741.GC9570@comet.hsd1.mn.comcast.net> References: <50CDFD7F.7040207@orlitzky.com> <201212161954.00706.dilfridge@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="z4+8/lEcDcG5Ke9S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 81627df5-67d8-4304-b2f8-249ee2fd401b X-Archives-Hash: 38de677e7b06d3d7bfdbe5770626f259 --z4+8/lEcDcG5Ke9S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 10:43 Mon 17 Dec , Markos Chandras wrote: > On 16 December 2012 18:53, Andreas K. Huettel wrot= e: > > How to do this, however, and what software to target should probably=20 > > be decided by people who know more than me... and in the end it all=20 > > boils down to "who has the time and motivation". >=20 > Outsource it to someone who has the knowledge and interest in doing=20 > this. The foundation has the funds to support it, and none of us=20 > actually have the time to invest in a complete webpage redesign. I did much of the design work nearly 2 years ago: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/gentoo_website/gentoo_landing_black.png http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/gentoo_website/gentoo_landing_install.png http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/gentoo_website/gentoo_landing_handbook.png http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/gentoo_website/gentoo_landing_handbook2.png Some early work on it using Bootstrap: http://a3li.li/~alex/g.o/ That said, why the hell are we wasting time implementing our own website=20 backend when we should be using a CMS? We're here to make a distro, not=20 a website framework. No reason we should care, day to day, about=20 anything but frontend theming and content. --=20 Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Analyst, RedMonk --z4+8/lEcDcG5Ke9S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlDnvn0ACgkQXVaO67S1rtvGeACg9w4Xlvv9/DtQoxIhkyLG97Uu I9UAnA0HXNaj1szANF5Wr95c0dxbHuO0 =TPVo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z4+8/lEcDcG5Ke9S--