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[Sean DALY]

Hi Dave,

I am the coordinator of the (moribund|inactive) marketing team, with very
little time available for SL. The past three years I've really only done PR.

The wiki is a rabbit warren... you can fall into it and never get out.

The main website lacks visuals and like the other websites are not well
connected from a navigation point of view. However, the main thing it is
lacking is a pancake button with an easy installer... because we don't have
one.

I pushed to have a common navbar on all our sites some years ago, at the
time developers didn't want to help code & deploy that. I can refer you to
that work.

I have acess to edit the main website, which I use only to update the press
page when I issue a press release, an infrequent occurrence. I hack the
HTML by hand, there is no backoffice publishing tool. I also pay for the
press page softphone, which however I haven't checked in some time
(messages are forwarded to Walter & I but I don't often connect to my SL
gmail).

The general infrastructure is supported by the systems team, to whom I tip
my cap, it's often a thankless job.

I also have post access to the facebook page with two others, Gary C Martin
and Samson Goddy. I haven't posted myself, but I respond when there is a
private message.

Perhaps with the new Oversight Board members there can be new initiatives
to work on these issues?

Sean




On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am just joining the Sugar Labs community as a GSoC Mentor, and I also am
> finding the wiki to have a lot of stale information, and the websites to be
> quite sprawling and in need of some 'wiki gardening' and general
> 'information architecture'.
>
> Who runs the existing web site infrastructure and who are the stakeholders
> that authorise changes to prominent pages?
>
>
> On 25 March 2016 at 04:46, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings Juan Carlos,
>>
>> I think it's clear that users of the several Sugar Labs websites would
>> benefit from more integrated navigation. This problem was identified in
>> 2009 when the current main SL site went up, at that time we tried to deploy
>> a standardized menu bar across the SL websites but were unable to find
>> anyone willing to do that work.
>>
>> We have also wanted a more visual main homepage and some work was done in
>> the past in that regard, but we were unable to source release-signed images
>> from the community and there was no budget for a professional photo shoot
>> (stock photography would not be appropriate).
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:52 PM, jcmurillot63 <jcmurillot63 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi marketing team,
>>>
>>>  My name is Juan Carlos Murillo and I’m very interested on contributing
>>> to Sugar Labs during Google Summer of Code 2016. Currently, I’m almost done
>>> with my proposal, but in one of the last questions I’m being asked to ask
>>> two members of the Sugar Labs community for his answer to the following
>>> question:
>>>
>>> What will be the impact of redesigning the Sugar Labs websites (main
>>> webpage, Wiki, Translation System, Planet, etc.) on the Sugar Labs
>>> community?
>>>
>>> I would appreciate a lot your response.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Juan Carlos Murillo
>>>
>>>
>>> Enviado desde mi Samsung Mobile de Telcel
>>>
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>>>
>>
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>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Dave
>
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