Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: TODO #6 test.libreoffice.org content improvements

Hi Bernhard, David, all,
On 18/12/2010 14:43, Dr. Bernhard Dippold wrote:
> Hi David, Cor, Sophie, all,
>
> I already wanted to reply to Sophie's mail, but didn't manage to do
> so...
>
> David Neslon wrote:
> > Hi, :-)
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 18:37, Cor Nouws<oolst@nouenoff.nl>
> > wrote:
> > > > In my opinion (but it's only mine ;-), the Dev text should have
> > > > its own tab, it may break a little bit the global appearance,
> > > > but we really need developers, so I would prefer a less nice
> > > > design if they have more chance to get there information faster
> > > > and participate :-)
> > >
> > > I support your idea, Sophie :-)
> >
> > OK, will do. Sophie, can you mail me a text in French (I'll
> > translate) for QA, please? The existing "Get Involved" will become
> > "Developers", and other project areas (documentation, QA, etc.)
> > will get sub-pages off the "Developers" page. Sounds OK?
>
> Please don't subsum all the other projects under "Developer".

Oups, yes sorry, you're right, I read too fast before going out. I
thought one tab for developers and another table for the rest of the
contribution under the Get Involved tab.
> An artist will never search for a way to contribute under the
> "Developer" tab, I doubt the same for marketing, webdesign or
> documentation.
yes, you're completely right
> In opposition to Sophie and Cor I like the "Get involved" tab very
> much. In my eyes this attracts developers too.
Yes, but for Dev, I'm not sure.
> What should be done is: - show the broad area of possible
> contribution in more graphical way (I know - that needs some
> graphics...)

yes, my proposal is also for the short time we have, we will do better
later.
> - attract developers in the most prominent way on the "Get involved"
> page.

not sure, but, I will follow what you and the others recommended, I'm
definitely not the expert here :)
> Even if we need new developers more than any other contributors (I
> don't really know if this is true, but I believe what I've been
> told), the starting place for contribution should show our community
> in a whole. LibreOffice should try to avoid discrimination between
> code contributors and non-code contributors wherever it is possible
> without negative effects.
>
> I'm quite sure, that it *is* possible to attract developers with
> prominent information on the "Get involved" page in (nearly?) the
> same way as with a "Developer" tab.
>
> And coming back to the two-level navigation on the top: This would
> allow to move directly to a "Developer" sub-category, if we had
> (sorry, no graphical devices here at work): (mouse over) |   HOME   |
> DOWNLOAD   |   FEATURES   |   GET HELP   |   *GET INVOLVED*   | ... |
> DEVELOPMENT   |   DOCUMENTATION   |   USER SUPPORT   |   QA   |
> MARKETING   |   DONATE   |
>
> with the second line in lighter green or blue.

yes, but see, you have to add l10n and Design. May be it's a lot of 
subtab, a bit too much?

Kind regards
Sophie

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