Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Redesigning the website

Marc,

You should ask that question to Christian Lohmaier here. Right now that's out of topic.

Thanks!

Charles. 


Marc O'Brien <mobrien@projectlibre.com> a écrit :
> Hi Charles,
>
> You have interesting timing.... we were just discussing the
> ProjectLibre
> site.  We currently use Drupal but are looking at Liferay.  I am
> curious
> why you chose SilverStripe instead of either Drupal/WordPress ?  We are
> looking at Liferay due to some solution synergy.   If anyone in the
> community has Liferay experience it would be great to hear from you!
>
> Btw, it is "International Project Management day".  We are all
> passionate
> about PM at ProjectLibre  so spreading the word!
>
> All the best,
>
> Marc
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Charles-H. Schulz <
> charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > The time has come for us to work on a new and improved web site for
> > LibreOffice.
> > While it served us well for several years already, it has also shown
> some
> > downsides and people tend to complain more.
> >
> > Because of this the board has decided to start a website redesign
> project
> > and as such the first thing that needs to be clarified is to define
> the
> > scope of this website redesign.
> >
> > Technically speaking we will continue using our SilverStripe
> platform; we
> > won't pick a new CMS (they are more or less the same for what needs
> to be
> > done).
> > We will not be targetting any of the current development and
> > communications platforms: gerrit, git repos, the wiki, the mailing
> lists
> > etc. fall out of the scope of our discussion.
> > For practical reasons, so do the templates and the extensions sites.
> >
> > What needs to be redesigned then falls under three categories:
> >
> > * the "design" itself (understand: the theme, the general look of the
> > website)
> > * the content. We may  reuse some of it as there are certainly some
> good
> > bits available, but we will also reorganize the way we think about
> the
> > general presentation of the website. In this regard the discussion
> about
> > how to engage users  to the LibreOffice community and the resulting
> survey
> > that has just been launched will help on this matter. But we
> obviously need
> > to think about the landing page.
> > * while the technical bits themselves are not covered for this
> specific
> > aspect, we would need to think about the whole download experience
> and the
> > download page itself.
> >
> > Requirements: that's the nice part :-)
> > - we will have a test environment with a SilverStripe instance to
> build
> > out the website.
> > - designers are welcome: this will be a key part of the project. The
> >   board has published a job posting on this a few days ago.
> >
> > General comments:
> > This redesign is very much an end-user focused initiative and as such
> a
> > marketing need. I must stress again that this isn't a project where
> we
> > decided to overhaul the online development and collaborative work
> tools.
> > This is rather the opportunity to develop a nice looking, clear front
> > facing website for LibreOffice. Another element that should not be
> > forgotten is to make sure the Native-Lang communities are not
> forgotten and
> > are included in this redesign.
> >
> > I'm happy to work not just Christian Lohmaier here but with everyone
> who'd
> > like to help.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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