Hi Ingo,<br><br><div>This is a great situation. Uniformity across all the sites is a good idea.</div><div>I'll try to keep the design as close to the new KDE website designs as possible.</div><div><br></div><div>Ranveer</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat Nov 08 2014 at 1:23:04 AM Ingo Malchow <<a href="mailto:imalchow@kde.org">imalchow@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Am Freitag, 7. November 2014, 19:16:15 schrieb Ranveer Aggarwal:<br>
> Project Title:<br>
> Revamp <a href="http://planetkde.org" target="_blank">planetkde.org</a><br>
><br>
> Description:<br>
> For the uninitiated, Planet KDE is KDE's Blog aggregator, i.e. it displays<br>
> feeds from the blogs of KDE contributors on one common web platform.<br>
><br>
> It's been in existence since 2008, and uses Rawdog (A Python-based RSS<br>
> Aggregator). It renders all the content on to a single HTML file, which can<br>
> be customized.<br>
><br>
> Basically, what I'm trying to do is to revamp the existing website, in the<br>
> following ways:<br>
> * Upgrade Rawdog to its newest version<br>
> * Give the website a new look and feel, with mobile compatibility<br>
> * Add social network feeds to it, if the APIs permit<br>
><br>
> So here is what I have roughly planned:<br>
> * Firstly, I'll read through the rawdog docs, and try a small<br>
> implementation locally. [By November 24th]<br>
> * Next, I'll go through the existing source code, and see how it is<br>
> written, especially the rawdog-HTML/CSS integration. [By November 30th]<br>
> * After the basic requirement of aggregating blogs is done, I'll go through<br>
> the API documentations of social networking websites and work on the<br>
> integration with the website, again locally. [By December 7th]<br>
> * After understanding how things work in the above two steps, I'll make a<br>
> rough mockup of the new design and that can be discussed and improved upon.<br>
> [Will be done concurrently; will be finalized by December 10th]<br>
> * Then I'll develop the front-end part of the website [By December 20th]<br>
> * After that is done, add rawdog and the social network APIs to it. [By<br>
> December 30th]<br>
> * Finalizing the code, adding finishing touches, adding new features if<br>
> possible [Thereafter]<br>
> Again, this is a rough timeline. Any improvements/suggestions would be<br>
> great.<br>
> The first step is going to experience some delay because I have my<br>
> semester-end examinations from 10th to 22nd of November.<br>
><br>
> Mentor for the Project:<br>
> Jonathan Riddell<br>
><br>
> About me:<br>
> I'm Ranveer and I'm a third year undergraduate pursuing bachelors in<br>
> Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology,<br>
> Bombay. I have been programming for the past two years and this is my first<br>
> time as an open source contributor.<br>
><br>
> Any input from the community would be much appreciated.<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> Ranveer Aggarwal<br>
<br>
Hi Ranveer,<br>
<br>
personally i think that sounds like a great idea. Some suggestions though.<br>
At the moment the planet is quite different to the look of the other kde<br>
websites. It is not the only website though.<br>
There is some progress on improving/renewing the look of kde websites, and you<br>
preferrably choose a look that is close/similar to that of the others.<br>
The newest discussion about a new look can be seen on<br>
<a href="http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=123233" target="_blank">http://forum.kde.org/<u></u>viewtopic.php?f=285&t=123233</a> (the okular site is only<br>
used as starting point here)<br>
<br>
This is only a suggestion though. You may also want to jump into the<br>
discussion if you have some feedback, i have added mine already :P<br>
<br>
Apart from that, good luck and have fun with the project.<br>
<br>
Cheerio,<br>
--<br>
Ingo Malchow</blockquote></div>