[kdewebdev-site] Announcing new web site project manager!

[Chris Hornbaker]

On Wednesday 31 March 2004 04:43, djoham at kdewebdev.org wrote:
> > Hi David, I'm Jacob.
>
> Hi Jacob (and Chris too, I'm too lazy to send separate Emails :)
>
> > It's a hodge-podge of reusable components,
> > copy-paste-modify, hacks, and code that hasn't been
> > touched in over 2 years.
>
> Job security is nice, isn't it :)
>
> > 2: I read zeldman's "designing with web standards,"
> > and am inspired to try a stab at XHTML+CSS to see what
> > can be done with it.
>
> XHTML is fun. You can do a lot of nice cross platform stuff with it - even
> in IE if you're careful...

(http://www.kdewebdev.org/~jilks/kdewebdev.html) Really? :-)

> > I may not be able to do that great with the XHTML part
> > as I'm still learning how to break my old table-layout
> > habits, but I should be able to help out with the PHP
> > part.
>
> Cool, that's an area I know we'll need help in. From what I've heard Chris
> is a whiz at X(HT)ML so I think we're well covered on these two important
> areas.

Whiz? No. Anal? Very!

> > So what now?  I think everybody is waiting in the
> > wings for something to happen.
>
> Good question. Here's my first stab at an answer:
>
> In the next day or so, Eric is going to do a brain dump to me about what
> he wants the site to do. That's where we come in. Hopefully, I'll be able
> to take that brain dump and put together some form of design document with
> goals, milestones and the like. Nothing too much, but enough to keep us on
> track so we don't lose sight of what we're trying to accomplish. After
> that comes a task list and and volunteers.
>
> Of course that's an oversimplification, but you get the idea. I expect
> you, Chris and everyone else to have input into the design, both from a
> techinical and a 30,000 foot level as well.
>
> I'm exited to get started. Hopefully, I'll have more information by the
> end of the week.
>
> Thanks to everyone who's volunteering!
>

Sweet, sounds like fun.

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