Recommend we start with the purpose of the website. If only informational and logistics, documentation and code then perhaps it doesn't matter. But I think there is a greater purpose.
I would argue it not only represents our project and community, but communicates our project and community to the rest of the world and to some extent aligns the community itself. So I agree with Seb that having a modern, professional, ideally attractive design is very important. Equally important that the vision, mission of the community be clear and accessible, and ideally, exciting! What problem does CloudStack solve better than anything else? Does it solve it in the way the market is looking for (i.e. costs nothing for a complete product that works out of box, vendor neutral, runs easily and reliably and can be upgraded for long term supportability). Today if you glance at the site you see "Open Source Cloud Computing". I'm not sure that's very helpful in an age where everything is moving to open source and cloud computing no longer seems to mean in the market what it did in 2008 (pretty much every web or mobile app or hosting services seems to be "cloud"). Cross posting this discussion to marketing, hopefully this can intersect with renewed investment by the community members to make CloudStack more accessible to the rest of the world and thus bring more participants to the community. Ian On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > Hi Sebastien, > > I really like the initiative, while cms.apache.org is handy I think the > gh-pages repo looks neat plus we can continue to use git and not archaic > svn :) > > I think we can then perhaps have an automated way to build the gh-pages > branch and copy the htmls to cms etc. Should we also use Jekyll based > website since the link (http://apache.github.io/cloudstack/) will be > built automatically by Github (need to confirm, if it allows for non-master > branches)? I’ve some Jekyll based experience, my website too is hosted on > Github and uses Jekyll. > > > On 05-Mar-2015, at 8:01 pm, Sebastien Goasguen <run...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > The website has been bugging me greatly, it's not up to par with today's > website and does not portray our project in a good way. > > > > I decided to try something quick. I created a gh-pages branch in our > repo, orphaned from the rest of the code based and pushed that. > > It shows up on github due to the mirroring: > > > > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/tree/gh-pages > > > > And it builds: > > > > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/tree/gh-pages > > > > I believe that's nice, it allows us to keep the website under ASF root > repo but the mirroring allows us to use github pages. > > That means we can take pull requests to build our website instead of > using svn or the apache CMS. > > > > Any amazing web designer on these lists who wants to take a crack at a > modern design for cloudstack ? > > > > thanks, > > > > -sebastien > > Regards, > Rohit Yadav > Software Architect, ShapeBlue > M. +91 88 262 30892 | rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com > Blog: bhaisaab.org | Twitter: @_bhaisaab > > > > Find out more about ShapeBlue and our range of CloudStack related services > > IaaS Cloud Design & Build< > http://shapeblue.com/iaas-cloud-design-and-build//> > CSForge – rapid IaaS deployment framework<http://shapeblue.com/csforge/> > CloudStack Consulting<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-consultancy/> > CloudStack Software Engineering< > http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-software-engineering/> > CloudStack Infrastructure Support< > http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-infrastructure-support/> > CloudStack Bootcamp Training Courses< > http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/> > > This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended > solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or > opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily > represent those of Shape Blue Ltd or related companies. If you are not the > intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based > upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender > if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a > company incorporated in England & Wales. ShapeBlue Services India LLP is a > company incorporated in India and is operated under license from Shape Blue > Ltd. Shape Blue Brasil Consultoria Ltda is a company incorporated in Brasil > and is operated under license from Shape Blue Ltd. ShapeBlue SA Pty Ltd is > a company registered by The Republic of South Africa and is traded under > license from Shape Blue Ltd. ShapeBlue is a registered trademark. > -- *Ian Rae* PDG *| *CEO t *514.944.4008* *CloudOps* Votre partenaire infonuagique* | *Cloud Solutions Experts w cloudops.com <http://www.cloudops.com/> *|* 420 rue Guy *|* Montreal *|* Quebec *|* H3J 1S6 <https://www.cloud.ca/> <http://www.cloudops.com/2014/11/cloudops-tops-deloittes-technology-fast-50/>
