Hi Spins SIG,
As you may know from our recent threads on FAB and notes from the Board meetings, we are revamping our spin pages on the Fedora Project web site to provide a more pleasant and informative way for Spin owners to reach their target audiences.
Mo Duffy has been working on new designs to give everything a clean, Fedora-centric look and feel. The URLs below show the most current designs, which will feature customizable content on the per-spin pages. Spins will be listed at the redesigned central spins.fp.o page:
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/spins-directory.6.png
Each individual page would feature a large customizable content area and could have multiple download links at the Spin owners' discretion:
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/spins-electronicslab.svg (Probably requires Inkscape to load/see this correctly)
I'm emailing the Spins SIG to ask for your help getting Spin owners aware of the fact that we want them to start thinking about, and most importantly *writing*, content for these individual pages that will help explain their Spins, and the who/why/how to use them. That information can simply be provided on a wiki page, and then we'll link it from the redesign pages on the wiki:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Website_redesign_2009
Mo is also open to constructive suggestions for the spins.fp.o and individual spins pages. I also hope people will feel free to visit the special Board session this Thursday at 1630 UTC in #fedora-design. We're going to do some final review of the initial mockups there so Mo will be able to proceed with final mockups next week and then on to subsequent phases including HTML coding, testing and deployment.
By the way, I would like to point out that the HTML coding effort here, while probably not very complex, is going to be a significant effort. If anyone on or around the Spins SIG has time to help, contact Ricky Zhou (ricky on IRC #fedora-websites) and let him know. We'd be glad to have your assistance!
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 14:52:02 -0400, "Paul W. Frields" stickster@gmail.com wrote:
As you may know from our recent threads on FAB and notes from the Board meetings, we are revamping our spin pages on the Fedora Project web site to provide a more pleasant and informative way for Spin owners to reach their target audiences.
Are these meant to replace the spin process pages or is the thought to have one set for internal use and other for external use? Where internal would be the spins SIG and a few others who are more interested in the quality of the spins than the specific content.
individual spins pages. I also hope people will feel free to visit the special Board session this Thursday at 1630 UTC in #fedora-design.
I might be able to attend part of that meeting. They'll be a meetbot record so if people can't they can at least review what was discussed?
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 03:10:24PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 14:52:02 -0400, "Paul W. Frields" stickster@gmail.com wrote:
As you may know from our recent threads on FAB and notes from the Board meetings, we are revamping our spin pages on the Fedora Project web site to provide a more pleasant and informative way for Spin owners to reach their target audiences.
Are these meant to replace the spin process pages or is the thought to have one set for internal use and other for external use? Where internal would be the spins SIG and a few others who are more interested in the quality of the spins than the specific content.
Sorry this might have been unclear Bruno -- these pages are meant to be *promotional* in nature. We are replacing the current spins.fp.o site with a better one, as seen in the mockups. The latest design of that hub page is here:
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/spins-directory.6.png
The individual spin pages are meant not to replace spin process pages, but to function purely as a place where you, a spin owner, can tell a user about your spin, what it does, why it's cool, and why they should download it Right Now from the big shiny button on the page:
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/spins-electronicslab.svg
individual spins pages. I also hope people will feel free to visit the special Board session this Thursday at 1630 UTC in #fedora-design.
I might be able to attend part of that meeting. They'll be a meetbot record so if people can't they can at least review what was discussed?
Of course!