Re: CMS Question [Was: New Website]

> > My personal comments follow. To make this project pop or standout  
> > in NA at
> > least, a couple of things are required. The technology is great but  
> > the
> > presentation of the same is lacking. A nice clean modern home site  
> > would be a great asset.
> I think everyone agrees on that, in fact I have started to change the  
> SOGo and SOPE sites, and I might manage OGo this year (though its the  
> biggest site overall).
> http://sogo.opengroupware.org/
> http://sope.opengroupware.org/
> IMHO the Styleshout designs are reasonably modern.

Yes, I like the look of the other sites.

BTW, how often does the sire rebuild from SVN?  I committed some updates
to the POGI page, but haven't seen anything yet.

> > Secondly a controlled access demo server would do wonders. and
> > thirdly a more modern default skin as we discussed about a year and  
> > half ago would go a long way to make the project more visable in NA.
> Well, talking about it doesn't make it happen ;-) Problem is that  
> creating an OGo theme requires quite a bit of knowledge of the  
> template setup.

Well, there are the fairly recent ones at
http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/lelarges/New_Theme_for_ogo_1.1/view
Perhaps someone could just replace the suspect images.  Unfortunately I
have the graphics design skills of a carpet stain.

> > Finally a simple install system that is standardized to the degree  
> > possible to eliminate most of the distro variables. Not known if  
> > the later is possible however.
> I think installing the free Instant-OGo demo inside a VMware player  
> is quite reasonable [to avoid the distro variables]. Though it would  
> be useful to provide a VMware image directly (anyone cares to setup  
> one? ;-)

Sure.  I've already got OGo in lots of VMs anyway, why not one more. :)

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