SoK: A New PlanetKDE

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Wed Jan 28 21:46:08 UTC 2015


The new design is _awesome_! Clear, clean and well-designed! I only just 
now saw it go live, and you did a great job!

On Wed, 28 Jan 2015, Ranveer Aggarwal wrote:

> Greetings!
> I started off my Project under Season of KDE 2014 with a motive to design and revamp KDE's own blog aggregator,
> PlanetKDE. Initiated by my mentor Jonathan Riddell, back in 2008, this website did an amazing job of scraping off
> content from KDE's bloggers. 
> 
> Since this was my first experience with Open Source, I initially restricted my interaction with the community,
> and went on designing and understanding everything myself, mailing my mentor when I was stuck. Around two weeks
> back, I completed my first draft and I thought it looked decent. 
> Then I was suggested to consult the Visual Design Forum and boy were they and enthusiastic bunch! They suggested
> loads of changes in the design and patiently helped me as I proceeded. 
> 
> And now, the site is live: https://planetkde.org/ 
> 
> This has been a great experience, and one of the biggest take backs was that when you work with various people,
> on something that will influence various people, you're bound to learn a lot. 
> I sincerely thank my mentor and everyone else who contributed for the amazing experience. I'll definitely keep
> contributing to KDE in the days to come.
> Hope you all like the new design. 
> 
> Any bug report/improvement/review would be appreciated. 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Ranveer Aggarwal
> 
>


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