[Gimp-web] responses to website redesign discussion...

[Ronnie Tucker]

> 7) the site should definitely be internationalized. It's a vaste of time
> and resources to force every national group to create it's own type of
> site.
> I vote for a mediawiki type of site.
I'm always dubious of wiki sites due to the fact that anyone could add junk or 
misinformation to the site. One example of that was the recent newspaper 
articles about the Professor who was trusted with editing large parts of 
Wikipedia and wasn't a Professor at all!

> A redesign of the GIMP web pages is long overdue. I doubt however that
> it is a good idea to let a single person do this. But perhaps you can
> find more people interested in this. A team effort to redo the web pages
> would be very much welcomed.
I agree with you there, but once Joomla is installed, its settings are put in 
place and a theme installed the site is effectively ready to go and the 
webmaster, with the designated authors and publishers, can put the 
information into the new site...

> What kind of help would an ordinary user who does not want to use
> mailing-lists and irc be able to offer?
I'm sure that many could offer distribution help, proof read documentation, 
write documentation and so on? I can use mailing lists and IRC but I really 
believe it should be easier to get in contact with people, most people who 
may want to volunteer services will probably just think; 'I cant be bothered 
going through all this hassle to volunteer'...

> People can already contribute to the web-site, but still there aren't
> many contributions.
I searched gimp.org for quite a while and couldn't find an easy way to contact 
anyone (outwith mailing lists and irc) so i'm really not surprised there's no 
contributions. I think the website should make it simple to send in/add 
something to the site...

> How is the history of GIMP particularily useful? People are more
> interested in the future of GIMP and that's where the current web-site
> sucks. The history is IMO pretty well covered.
I agree, the history information is there, but its just very badly presented. 
Quite fragmented. I agree also that the future is absent. There's hardly any 
mention of 2.4 and its new features. Infact, i dont even remember seeing a 
list of Gimp 2.2's main features (but i could be wrong there!).

Thanks for reading over my proposal, I really hope that something can be done 
to get the website more up to date and get people downloading Gimp because I 
feel the website is holding it back, if anything, rather than promoting it.

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Cheerio!
Ronnie

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