If you decide to move to WordPress I can help out a bit too, I have plenty experience maintaining ownCloud.org :-)
replying on phone. blame faulty text completion/correction for any rudeness! On Jan 25, 2016 11:02 PM, "farid abdelnour" <[email protected]> wrote: > hi guys, > > i am one of the people interested in helping out with the website. i guess > the first step would be to choose if we are gonna stick to the current > platform (drupal) and update it since there might be some security flaws > or switch to a different one (wordpress?). our lead designer here at the > studio can take care of all the design of the website and if we choose > wordpress i can apply it (i am not familiar with drupal). eventually we > will do a research and develop a design best suited for everyone's demands > and needs. i did a quick look around at other video, audio and graphics > programs to start getting an idea about what is out there: > > proprietary: > http://www.lwks.com/ > http://www.avid.com/US/products/Media-Composer > http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro > https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/ > https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere.html > > free: > http://natron.fr/ > http://ardour.org/ > https://www.blender.org/ > https://inkscape.org/en/ > http://www.gimp.org/ > > parallel to this we can start thinking about writing/organizing the > content and structure. (which is the most important thing.) like ttguy > said, i agree that content is the most important but it should be well > presented to the visitors. we can point to the forum, wiki and bug tracker > from the website and users eventually will use the other services if > necessary. > > if you'd like to continue this conversation here it is fine by me, > otherwise we can switch to the forum. > > cheers > > > > > 2016-01-21 19:50 GMT-02:00 Roger Morton <[email protected]>: > >> I have been involved in doing some maintenance of the content on both >> the kdenlive.org web site and on the userbase.kde wiki. >> Historically the kdenlive.org site was where everything happened. It >> was the manual, the forum, the place to make anouncements and to >> advertise how to get Kdenlive. >> >> Then for various reasons - as have already been mentioned - we moved a >> lot of this functionality to kde infra structure and closed the >> kdenlive.org web site to new user registration. Now if we are thinking >> of putting more content back on the kdenlive.org website we need to >> consider the future maintenance burden. >> >> The way to limit maintenance burden is to have a large number of >> contributors to the maintenance task. We can get this on the >> userbase.kde wiki since new user registrations are open. We can't get >> this so easily on kdenlive.org because new automatic registrations are >> closed. We could try opening up kdenlive.org again to new user >> registrations but I have to tell you that last time we had this open >> we were getting 5 or more fake spammer account registrations per day. >> I believe that the security on the registrations system had been >> exploited somehow because I would see authorised users that had never >> been sent a confirmation email. This the reason we turned off >> registration completely. Maybe this exploit has been fixed. I dunno. >> But this just something to consider in all this. >> >> While I agree that the attractiveness of the site is important I >> believe the accuracy of the content on the site is more important. >> And I don't think we should duplicate information. >> >> We have >> https://userbase.kde.org/Special:MyLanguage/Kdenlive/Manual/Installation >> to speak to installation >> and we have https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Tutorials for >> tutorials >> >> So I am thinking more on the lines that Vincent mentioned. The >> kdenlive.org site can have some nice looking promotional material that >> is fairly generic in nature and not requiring too much maintanance. It >> should link to the more dynamic information at the userbase.kde manual >> pages. >> >> >> >(3) Direct the viewer easily to a web page or location where they can >> get it... or at least show how they can get it. >> >> This is of course one of our biggest issues and has been for ages. >> There is no way to have simple instructions on how to get it because >> everyone must rely on the package managers of their various linux >> distros. But if we had more contributors to the doco then we might >> have users from all different distros updating the doco to tell people >> how to install it on their flavor of linux. >> >> While we there is a mood about helping out with doco I would make a >> plea to people to help out on the userbase.kde manual. I did a lot of >> work on it a few years ago and got it to a point where it was pretty >> comprehensive. I had pages covering every menu item (not every effect >> or transition had a page - but a skeleton link to create a page was >> there). But now - with the major overall that kdenlive has undergone >> - it is out of date in many places. So if people have "documentation >> fever" they could help out on the userbase.org wiki. - register a kde >> identity account here https://identity.kde.org/?r=registration/index/ >> >> I summary my plea to people is to not focus too much on the sexiness >> of the websites but to focus on getting the content right. If you see >> something wrong just fix it ! >> _______________________________________________ >> kdenlive mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdenlive >> > > > > -- > 1111.1010.r.i.1101|n.o.i.s.1110|i.m.1010.g.1110|مقاومة > fsf member #5439 > usuario GNU/Linux #471966 > |_|0|_| > |_|_|0| > |0|0|0| > <a href="http://www.gunga.com.br";>gunga</a> > <a href="http://www.tempoecoarte.com.br";>tempoecoarte</a> > <a href="http://www.atelier-labs.org";>atelier-labs</a> > <a href="http://www.mocambos.net";>rede mocambos</a> > > _______________________________________________ > kdenlive mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdenlive > >
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