Re: Crying uncle on SWI-Prolog.org website (was much interest in strange loop)

Hi Anne,

It's great to hear that Jessica and you have already accormplished so much!

I would like to participate in this, and I'm quite sure others are
willing to do this as well. The second option you mention, working on
this an hour here and there, would work better for me than the first
option (having a single, lengthy hackathon-style session).

Could you make the current code/mock-ups of the project available
online (read: use Github :-P)?

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Wouter.

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Met vriendelijke groet,
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On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Anne Ogborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm putting this on a separate thread because I hope there's some response.
>
> Part of getting ready for a big push for a larger community is the long languishing website redesign.
>
> Almost a year ago I foolishly volunteered to work on redesigning the website.
>
> I worked on it over the Christmas period, and then early in the year got sucked into a contract.
> When I finally got out of that, I did some more work, but then got two cool new gigs.
>
> I recruited a professional web designer, Jessica Chan, and the new website looks really marvelous.
> But it's still in HTML mockups.
>
> With all the other (paying) work in my life this year, I've not been able to finish, and it's getting drawn out.
> So this is my official cry of uncle. If we want this done, I'm going to need help.
>
> Scope of the project -
>
> * A visual facelift. It's still spare looking, but now Its' professional and minimal
> * A reorganization of the confused maze of 'upper' pages in the website. The new look includes a menu system
> that made it possible (yay Jessica!) to actually find pretty much everything in the site easily. This was a huge project,
> but it's done.
> * The home page was totally redesigned.
> * The reorganization means a few new pages need to be written.
> * The facelift means some code changes, and those aren't done
> * To make the site consistent, and even work together across the upgrade boundary, pldoc had to get the facelift as well.
> That's half done it's what I was working on when my life got crazy this time.
> * There's been some work to increase the flexibility of the page generation scheme.
>
> Lots of work IS done
>
> * there are visual comps for all pages
> * most of these have been HTMLized =- this is about 85% done
> * There's some javascript in the new menus, that's been done
> * The code's been adapted for the changes in the search UI, but not the wiki ui
>
> It's simply a complicated enough project that the few hours here and there I can give it are low enough that there's lots of wasted motion with me figuring out hwat was going on each time I come back.
>
> So, I'm calling out for help. I think we could get it done in a long weekend if we did it hackathon style, where 4-5 people got on IRC, worked on parts of it, and we just did it. Or if we got a small group of committed people willing to hack at it, maybe meet online one evening a week for a while. I could do either of those.
>
> I'm just not having the ongoing hours to get it done by myself.
>
> If someone would like to help but doesn't feel their prolog's up to it, there's lots of work that requires only modest prolog skills - there's HTML to be laid out, javascript to be written, and the new pages to be copy written.
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