<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hi all,</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">After mailing the potential mentor for this project and getting his reply, I started tweaking with the repo of the sugarlabs website on github [1]. I started off working on a flat bootstrap theme - Flatly and ported the sugarlabs website to it(around 95%). After reading the Project description on wiki, I came to certain conclusions about the project:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">1. Need of a uniform design across all the sugar labs websites.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">2. Need of reduced number of framework for all the websites.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Also after reading this thread [2] on the mailing list, I found the ideas suggested by Sam and James very important which should be incorporated - especially the point about making the website available to people with low internet bandwidth.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">On the thread I also came across this point by Sam :</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i>Maybe making a
</i>><i> better native app to do the sugar-on-a-stick creation, and creating an email
</i>><i> mini-course that we introduce people to sugar with could be a great project?</i></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It seems very interesting and something Sugar Labs could benefit off of, could you please elaborate on this point - especially the point of make an email mini-course.</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You can find my version of the sugarlabs website demo here [3]. Please give your inputs as to how can I approach this project - what are some additional features we can incorporate and what is the present scope of the project?</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">[1] </font><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://github.com/walterbender/www-sugarlabs" target="_blank">https://github.com/walterbender/www-sugarlabs</a></font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">[2] </font><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2016-March/051569.html" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2016-March/051569.html</a></font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[3] <a href="https://github.com/AkshitKumar/www-sugarlabs-demo" target="_blank">https://github.com/AkshitKumar/www-sugarlabs-demo</a></font></pre></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 2:46 AM, Akshit Kumar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:akshitkumar100@gmail.com" target="_blank">akshitkumar100@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>After mailing the potential mentor for this project and getting his reply, I started tweaking with the repo of the sugarlabs website on github [1]. I started off working on a flat bootstrap theme - Flatly and ported the sugarlabs website to it(around 95%). After reading the Project description on wiki, I came to certain conclusions about the project:</div><div>1. Need of a uniform design across all the sugar labs websites.</div><div>2. Need of reduced number of framework for all the websites.</div><div><br></div><div>Also after reading this thread [2] on the mailing list, I found the ideas suggested by Sam and James very important which should be incorporated - especially the point about making the website available to people with low internet bandwidth.</div><div>On the thread I also came across this point by Sam :</div><div><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i>Maybe making a
</i>><i> better native app to do the sugar-on-a-stick creation, and creating an email
</i>><i> mini-course that we introduce people to sugar with could be a great project?</i></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It seems very interesting and something Sugar Labs could benefit off of, could you please elaborate on this point - especially the point of make an email mini-course.</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You can find my version of the sugarlabs website demo here [3]. I am also attaching some screenshots of the website design. Please give your inputs as to how can I approach this project - what are some additional features we can incorporate and what is the present scope of the project?</font></pre><pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">[1] </font><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://github.com/walterbender/www-sugarlabs" target="_blank">https://github.com/walterbender/www-sugarlabs</a></span></font></pre><pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">[2] </font><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2016-March/051569.html" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2016-March/051569.html</a></span></font></pre><pre><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[3] <a href="https://github.com/AkshitKumar/www-sugarlabs-demo" target="_blank">https://github.com/AkshitKumar/www-sugarlabs-demo</a></font></pre></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Akshit Kumar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:akshitkumar100@gmail.com" target="_blank">akshitkumar100@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Greetings all<div><br></div><div>I am Akshit Kumar. I am a second year undergraduate student in the department of Electrical Engineering in Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. I want to take part in GSoC'16 under Sugar Labs. After going through the ideas page, I found the project idea - Redesign and Recreate Sugar Labs Web Appearance interesting. </div><div><br></div><div>I know basics of HTML,CSS, JS and Bootstrap. I am also familiar with Python and Ruby on Rails framework. I am really interested in this project. Could someone please help me in getting started with this? Also can I get a more detailed idea about the project as well and/or probably point to a few starter bugs which I can solve?</div><div><br></div><div>Github profile - <a href="https://github.com/AkshitKumar" target="_blank">https://github.com/AkshitKumar</a></div><div>IRC nick - akshitkumar1</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif">Regards</font><div><div><b><font face="georgia, serif">Akshit Kumar</font></b></div></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Second Year Undergraduate Student</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Department of Electrical Engineering</font></div></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Indian Institute of Technology, Madras</font></div><div><a href="http://akshitk.com" target="_blank">http://akshitk.com</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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