Long Term / KDE.org Design Update

[Bart Otten]

Nederland proved that having one 'leader' with a 'secret vision' is a
disaster for getting this job done. I have spend many hours back then
trying to help Person X and the whole project screwed up my whole appetite
for contributing to OSS.

It's a good thing Ken seeks 'backup' before the project lifts. Having a
team (server admins, design, usability experts) beforehand will prevent the
never landing of the previous project.
Op 13 jul. 2015 17:49 schreef "Hans Chen" <hanswchen at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> At WebWorld 2011 there was some work done on updating KDE.org and other
> KDE sites, and I think one of the conclusions was to scrap Capacity and use
> Wordpress for most sites.[1]
> There were also discussions about the design and content of KDE.org.
> If I remember correctly, we also decided to go with our own design
> (similar to the current https://forum.kde.org/) rather than trying to
> emulate the Plasma theme (Oxygen at that time, see e.g. the old forum
> design <http://dot.kde.org/sites/dot.kde.org/files/newforum.png>[2]),
> because we found it hard to keep all sites up-to-date with the rapidly
> evolving desktop theme with our limited web team.
>
> You can find some of the early work here:
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/websites/neverland
> If you want to rework KDE.org, it might be a good idea to contact some of
> the Neverland project managers and developers (I think most of them are
> subscribed to this list, but I don't know how active they are anymore).
>
> Cheers,
> Hans
>
> --
>
> [1] https://dot.kde.org/2011/06/08/webworld-2011-building-next-kde-web
> [2] http://dot.kde.org/sites/dot.kde.org/files/newforum.png
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Andrej Mernik <andrejm at ubuntu.si> wrote:
>
>> Dne 13. 07. 2015 ob 15:27 je Ken Vermette zapisal(a):
>>
>>> Wagh! Sorry I haven't been more active here; my day job has had me on
>>> heavy web development for the past few months - you can imagine programming
>>> PHP for more than 8 hours a day can send some people screaming to non-web
>>> projects, especially when it's not a quick project like the KDE websites. ;)
>>>
>>> In all honesty my progress was starry-eyed and a bit crap, I haven't
>>> been satisfied with my work at all, and for some reason I thought writing
>>> (another) custom CMS was a good idea; I came back to what I had yesterday
>>> and set the project folders on fire. Aside from some pretty designs and
>>> inconsequential HTML, I'm going to reset my progress meter, because I doubt
>>> the whole "lone wolf" thing will get very far on a long-term project like
>>> this - especially since my screwups would be your burden - and that thought
>>> stressed me out.
>>>
>>> I think the most important thing isn't the design aspect, but having a
>>> solid foundational CMS which is modern, will be updated, and will allow for
>>> easier management. I'd like to maybe just start with your feedback as the
>>> maintainers; right now KDE.org has several systems its running under,
>>> including Capacity as a sort of "glue" CMS... I'd like to poll you guys on
>>> the possibility of picking and sticking with one CMS, even if it means
>>> programming a multitude of modules, which I'm willing to do. I also think
>>> it's important that you guys choose what you want to maintain, because
>>> what's easy to design for isn't necessarily what's easy to maintain.
>>>
>>> I'm also thinking "not custom" since keeping things up-to-date is a
>>> tough issue, but with something like Drupal or Wordpress at least we know
>>> it will have active maintainers dedicated to the main codebase. If we can
>>> just maintain modules in a skinnable multi-language system that will be
>>> half the battle won forever and ever. Hopefully, for user-facing pages
>>> we'll get our core codebase down to CMS X and PhpBB.
>>>
>>> Anyway!
>>>
>>> I think the first thing I'd like to hear from you guys before I re-kick
>>> my efforts is; do you agree with my logic, and what CMS would you prefer to
>>> maintain if you do?
>>>
>>>  Hello,
>>
>> my vote goes for Wordpress since it's the CMS I have worked most on and
>> it's easy to customize and extend. It's actively developed and it already
>> has a lot of plugins.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andrej
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