Re: Account Created + Our Agenda

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 05:28 pm, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > 2.1. Add a Stop-e-Patents in Europe thing similar to what present in:
> > http://shlomif.il.eu.org/
> >
> > Should we do it? What do Ralf and Denis think of it? What do everybody
> > else think about it? The Patent vote is coming soon.
>
> Well, it's ok to put this onto the website but preferably in a less
> obtrusive way (smaller images and less obstrusive text box).
>

I suppose it is doable. I wasn't able to find a smaller logo there. Maybe I'll 
have to fire up gimp and design one myself.

> > [...]
> > 5. Think about what should be added/removed/modified in the site. One
> > thing I feel is that the navigation menu may have too many images, (all
> > of them small, but together they add to a lot) which on a slow link can
> > cause the page to take a long time to load. Can we replace it with a nice
> > stylized text?
>
> Sure, the navigation bar is 5 years old and from times where stylesheets
> could not be used for great buttons. Just use XHTML+CSS to draw a few
> nice buttons...
>

Will do, OK.

> > [...]
> > It would also be nice to expand the menu with sub-menus as well, which is
> > what most site do. And relevant Mozilla <link rel='s would be nice.
>
> Cool, just do it.
>

OK, but it's not a very high priority.

> > [...]
> > 8. Set up a web-forum on the site. (we might need something that supports
> > UTF-8 really well.) I can also RTFM on how to reserve an IRC channel on
> > FreeNode, and perhaps a Wiki would be nice. But naturally, we need to
> > modify the site to reflect these new resources.
>
> Hmmm... we have the mailing list and it has not much traffic? Do we
> really need one more forum? I don't think it would be used very much.
> Instead I sughest to just use MHonArc or similar tools to render a HTML
> view of the archived mailing list.

A good idea as well. However, I want a web-forum because many of the new 
people on the Internet, prefer it over the mailing list format. Setting up a 
PHP-BB or Pun-BB forum (or perhaps something that supports UTF-8 better) is 
very easy and requires very little maintenance later. But that can be delayed 
until the site is ready for prime time again.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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