[Owncloud] Re: Help for the website, again

Sat Jun 11 17:39:18 UTC 2011

I'm not sure how closely tied ownCloud wants to be with KDE, but you may
also want to talk to the KDE www team as well. They are making some major
changes to the kde.org infrastructure.

- Michael

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Aamir Khan <ak4u2009 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Damien Tardy-Panis <
> damientardypanis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> I really don't understand why I don't get any answers... I know everybody
>> is
>> busy but come on, I sent my message 5 days ago! And you can't tell you
>> don't
>> accept/need help ;-)
>>
>
> Hey Damien in the last message you sent 5 days ago, you clearly suggested
> the main points that you are going to implement. And these are very much
> acceptable to me.
>
> If you can just mail us some of the website design that you are going to
> implement for owncloud that would be awesome to see!!
>
>
>> I think Florian didn't get any response too. That is not very welcoming!
>> But
>> maybe I'm wrong here if some people answered him privately. My apologies
>> if
>> it's the case.
>>
>> Maybe the reason is I didn' t introduce myself properly and you don't
>> trust me
>> enough to do the website. If I'm right here you should have told me!
>> Having no
>> answer is really demotivating! But it's ok for now I still have a lot of
>> it
>> ;-)
>>
>> Sorry if you felt bad because nobody of us didn't replied.
>
>
>> Anyway, here is a more complete introduction if it's what you were waiting
>> for :
>> I'm Damien Tardy-Panis. I'm 22, in the last year of my studies as a
>> software
>> engineer (Ensimag, Grenoble, France). Currently, I'm in my final
>> internship in
>> Amsterdam where I do some web development using Magento (e-commerce).
>> I've been helping the KDE Promo Team for about 1 year now, mainly with the
>> cration of the booklet :
>> http://community.kde.org/images.community/5/5f/Kde_booklet_ver8.pdf.
>>
>> Allright, now I'm really looking forward to seeing some answers from you
>> guys.
>> If you preferably use the IRC to communicate, just tell me I'll come (even
>> if
>> I prefer the mailing list for these kind of introduction).
>>
>> I would suggest you to spend some time on IRC channel : #owncloud so that
> we can have some realtime discussion about the website. And if you are stuck
> with some part of website and want community help then you can get much
> faster response over IRC.
>
>
>> What I would like to know at least is : Would you accept me to request to
>> open
>> a project at projects.kde.org to start an owncloud website ? So that we
>> can
>> work together with those who want to help with that website.
>>
>> SInce it is a Open Source project and others may also be interested in
> contributing so i think that we should have some kind of project that
> everybody can access and contribute to it. So i would suggest to get a new
> project at projects.kde.org
>
>
>> As I said, the website would be just the first thing I want to do (I think
>> this
>> is the most urgent task). If everything is fine with the team and the
>> project,
>> I'll do some development after. Just like Florian wanted to do, right ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Damien
>>
>> On Monday 06 June 2011 20:41:24 you wrote:
>> > Hey,
>> >
>> > 2011/6/5 Jan-Christoph Borchardt <JanCBorchardt at fsfe.org>
>> >
>> > > Hey, and sorry Damien,
>> >
>> > no prob ;-)
>> >
>> > > I’ll very much appreciate help with the website. I did some sketching
>> > > which I’m going to refine, digitalize and follow up with later today
>> > > hopefully.
>> > >
>> > > It’s basically a very short 1-page intro to ownCloud with links to the
>> > > wiki, bugtracker, git etc. for details. Based on the current login
>> site
>> > > (with big header).
>> > >
>> > > For everyone: I thought about using this 1-page intro as the homepage
>> for
>> > > every ownCloud installation. So that unlike now where there’s just a
>> > > login
>> > >
>> > > field there’s actually more info. That would be useful:
>> > >  * If you share a public link and they check out the base address
>> > >  * If you run a not-strictly personal server, as information
>> > >  * Some scenarios I haven’t thought about yet
>> > >
>> > > The login will still be on the top right. Essentially something like
>> at
>> > > http://joindiaspora.com or http://titanpad.com or lots of other
>> projects.
>> > >
>> > > Let me know what you think!
>> >
>> > I would have thought to do a more complete website than just an 1-page
>> with
>> > some links.
>> >
>> > At least something with :
>> > - a demo of OwnCloud like Aamir suggested
>> > - a presentation of the project (the history, the vision, the goals,
>> ...)
>> > - how to install/use it (maybe with a link to some Userbase articles
>> that
>> > still need to be created as Michael told)
>> > - some explanations about how to contribute
>> >
>> > In fact the last items are the ones we already have in the wiki
>> > (introduction, use owncloud, get involved). The idea will be to present
>> > them in a more user-friendly way.
>> >
>> > We can add many more things of course ! A integrated CMS to provide some
>> > news would be very valuable too for example.
>> > But as the project is quite "young", the goal is to attract some new
>> > contributors to make it grow and I think that the previous items are the
>> > more important ones with that idea in mind.
>> >
>> > Since there is Florian who also want to help with the website, I think
>> this
>> > is manageable.
>> >
>> > Tell me what you think too.
>> >
>> > Damien
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> India , 247667
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