[kdewebdev-site] Phase I design and development opportunities

[Chris Hornbaker]

On Wednesday 14 April 2004 01:55, David Joham wrote:
> Hello all!

Hey, just quick comments.

> Here's my first pass at the jobs that will need to be assigned for the
> initial work on Phase I. Please review and comment if you see any jobs I
> left out or some you don't think need to be here yet. Please keep in mind
> that these are only the jobs for the initial work on Phase I, not all that
> will be needed to complete the work.
>
> 1) www.kdewebdev.org and <tool>.kdewebdev.org page layout prototype. I want
> to have an XHTML prototype with graphics for approval as soon as possible.

I'm gonna give this a go. Let's have a competition of sorts. :-D

> 2) www.kdewebdev.org and <tool>.kdewebdev.org site map. What tools are
> going to be included in Phase I? What will the navigation options be?

KDE sites, and sub-kdewebdev sites. Would any more be needed for an umbrella 
site?

> 3) A list of www.kdewebdev.org and <tool>.kdewebdev.org content providers.
> I want to know who is committed to writing content for these sites so we
> can get them on board as soon as possible.

I will help here.

> 4) A "Build or Buy" strategy. I would like to know if any existing tools
> (such as Plone or SquishDot or others) can help us create www.kdewebdev.org
> faster than if we did it from scratch. I don't have any objection to
> building our site from scratch (more fun) but one of our objectives on this
> project is getting the site running as quickly as possible. If an existing
> tool will let us do that, we should seriously consider using it.

Build! I think it's important for a site related to Quanta+ to be built in 
Quanta+ purely (except images, of course). However, I see no problem in using 
available forum software.

> 5) An L10N strategy. This may be partially tied into #4 above but is more
> detailed as well. What L10N resources do we have? What languages do we
> want? Assuming we're going to use PHP for the development of this site (in
> either an existing tool or our own in-house tool) what is the best way to
> proceed knowing the we want to have our site in as many languages as
> possible?

I have i18n methods in PHP that are simple to use (i18n("String"); and 
xgettext (PO)). I want to translate it to lojban, too. :-D

> 6) A database strategy. This may also tie in slightly with #4 above.
> However, I want someone to make a recommendation as to how much
> database-sourced content we're going to have for Phase I. At the moment, I
> see that Phase I could go anywhere from flat HTML files to everything being
> stored in the database. We're going to need a database developer if we do
> any database work at all.

I don't see a need for a DB, except for a forum, if any. But I may be short 
sighted.

>
> I'm sure there's more initial Phase I work, but at the moment, I'm drawing
> a blank. For those of you who have been looking at getting going with this
> project, here's your chance! Not only am I looking for other jobs that I
> might be missing, I'm also looking for volunteers. If anything interests
> you, please let us all know so I can officially start handing out
> assignments. Here's where it starts to get fun :)
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
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