[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

[Sanchit Bansal]

It's amazing to see many people willing to work on the same project.

If shows how important it is also. I will be more than happy to help even
if I am not selected.
On 21-Apr-2016 12:52 pm, "Juan Carlos Murillo" <jcmurillot63 at gmail.com>
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> Hi Dave,
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> Thank you for your answers.
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> I visited all the websites and I think they would look much better with a
> consistent color scheme. I’m going to try your suggested scheme. Also, if
> there is a range of different colors for the logo, then a good idea might
> be to use the same logo color for the websites that have more related
> content between them (i.e. homepage and activities).
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> Thanks for the prioritization of the websites, I will definitely take it
> into consideration when working on the redesign.
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> Jekyll is pretty good, another good option is NodeJS-based static site
> generator Hexo. Wouldn’t it might be more simple for the developers to use
> a same CMS or static site generator for all SL websites?
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> Best regards,
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> Juan Carlos Murillo
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> *De:* d.crossland at gmail.com [mailto:d.crossland at gmail.com] *En nombre de *Dave
> Crossland
> *Enviado el:* Monday, April 18, 2016 5:37 PM
> *Para:* Juan Carlos Murillo <jcmurillot63 at gmail.com>
> *CC:* sugar-devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> *Asunto:* Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign
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> Hi
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> On 18 April 2016 at 15:04, Juan Carlos Murillo <jcmurillot63 at gmail.com>
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> In addition to Sugar Labs main webpage, Wiki, Planet, and the Translation
> webpages, which other websites do you think will need to be redesigned?
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> I would prioritize/order them as: homepage, activities.sugarlabs.org,
> wiki, lists, planet, translations, bugs
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> Which Sugar Lab’s logo color is going to be adopted: orange, green or
> blue?
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> As I understand it - might be wrong - there isn't a single colour; the
> brand guidelines specify that a range of colors are used in a consistent
> pattern, and the brand identity is in the pattern.
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> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Logo
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> However, I think if there was to be one color, it would be the bright
> green ones (to match the bright green of the XOs)
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> What color schemes would you prefer to use on Sugar Lab’s websites?
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> I think it would be good to use a material design scheme, with a the grey
> scheme as primary, and the light green scheme as secondary.
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> The current websites have a wide variety of color schemes; a same color
> scheme on all websites may look nicer.
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> I agree
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> Do you prefer a particular CMS? WordPress? Drupal? Joomla?
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> I think the existing CMS for each site are fine:
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> homepage, jeykll (https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs)
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> activities.sugarlabs.org, mozilla addons
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> wiki, mediawiki
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> lists, mailman2
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> planet, planet
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> translations, pootle
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> bugs, trac
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> --
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> Cheers
> Dave
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