On 2013.01.05 05:47, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 10:43 Mon 17 Dec , Markos Chandras wrote: > > On 16 December 2012 18:53, Andreas K. Huettel > <dilfri...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > > How to do this, however, and what software to target should > probably > > > be decided by people who know more than me... and in the end it > all > > > boils down to "who has the time and motivation". > > > > Outsource it to someone who has the knowledge and interest in doing > > this. The foundation has the funds to support it, and none of us > > actually have the time to invest in a complete webpage redesign. > > I did much of the design work nearly 2 years ago: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/gentoo_website/ > gentoo_landing_black.png > http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/gentoo_website/ > gentoo_landing_install.png > http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/gentoo_website/ > gentoo_landing_handbook.png > http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/gentoo_website/ > gentoo_landing_handbook2.png > > Some early work on it using Bootstrap: > > http://a3li.li/~alex/g.o/ > > That said, why the hell are we wasting time implementing our own > website > backend when we should be using a CMS? We're here to make a distro, > not > a website framework. No reason we should care, day to day, about > anything but frontend theming and content. > > -- > Thanks, > Donnie > > Donnie Berkholz > Council Member / Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux <http://dberkholz.com> > Analyst, RedMonk <http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/> > Donnie.
We make our own website framework for the same reason that everything else happens in Gentoo. Someone is interested in doing it. I agree its not 'core business' but Gentoo isn't a business. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees
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