From: "John W. Long" Date: 2005-02-17T21:45:02+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Visual Identity Team James Britt wrote: > I nominate me to redesign ruby-doc.org. I appreciate the offer, but > altering the aesthetics without changing the underlying behavior is not > going to work. I would definately nominate you to be part of the the team to work on ruby-doc.org if we ever did anything to it. Hey, you would lead the team. And I do appologize. In suggesting that we redesign ruby-doc.org I was not meaning to degrade any of the work you have already done, which is great. > On a more general note, I'm all for people trying to clean up sites, > making suggestions, fixings links, getting things into better shape, but > I'm dead against any sort of formalization of the process across > multiple sites. The main thought is to give those who are open to it access to great free design services. If that's not something you would want for ruby-doc.org that is your call. It would be nice to join with those who have already contributed a substantial amount to the ruby comunity, like yourself, and help them with site design and aesthetics freeing them up to do what they enjoy: write more code. > I really, really believe that things happen in the Ruby community as > well as they do because people feel they can contribute something in a > community spirit while doing so in a personal manner. Trying to > enforce a uniform anything could be trouble; things tend best to arise > out of a loose consensus and running code. It wouldn't necessarily be a "uninform everything." We would look at it on a site, by site basis. The main goal would be to sell Ruby in the best possible way. I know we all differ on what the best way to sell Ruby is, but getting someone who specializes in design to jump on to this project could really help. By forming a visual identity team, I would hope to add more to the community feel, not take away from it. Perhaps we could use a trouble ticket system of some kind, which would allow people to post in one place comments and ideas about team projects. -- John Long http://wiseheartdesign.com