Re: Helping with LyX

2008-03-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Rex Eastbourne wrote: place where I could see the most improvement is the website, specifically the navigation, documentation, and look and feel. Hi Rex, I certainly agree with the above. (IMHO this also holds for the wiki, although I'm not sure you're referring to it sp

Re: Helping with LyX

2008-03-13 Thread Joost Verburg
Dominik Böhm wrote: I would go one step further as the website doesn't only look somehow confusing. Some might say that the design of the page is well established, I would say that it just looks old and needs refurbishment. I just had a look at the internet archive (http://web.archive.org/web/*/h

Re: Helping with LyX

2008-03-13 Thread Bo Peng
> As far as other ways of contributing: I don't know C++, but I am pretty > proficient in Python, which I see is used for some aspects of LyX. Are there > any small Python tasks that are particularly in need of getting done? I would suggest that you first check out lyx-devel and compile lyx by

Re: Helping with LyX

2008-03-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
> am interested in helping out with the project. I am interested in finding > out how I can be of the most help given my skill set and interests. subscribe to devel list, read thread you are interested in, the tasks will appear by themselves ;) > I know all the information is there in the website

Re: Helping with LyX

2008-03-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Dominik Böhm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am pretty sure that LyX could reach a lot more users if the website > was professional, appealing and well structured (latter would include > the download link on the home page). The fact that nobody really works on the website definitely shows, inde

Re: Helping with LyX

2008-03-13 Thread Dominik Böhm
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Rex Eastbourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, here's one immediate issue: Many of my friends have seen me > using LyX and have asked where to get it. However, they have come back to me > confused about the www.lyx.org website, specifically where to fin