From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2005-02-17T22:39:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Visual Identity Team

John W. Long wrote:

> Recently I've seen a couple of people mention how much they would like 
> to see a new look on the main Ruby Web site. I can't help but agree. 
> I've been wishing the same thing for a bunch of the main Ruby Web sites 
> for months now.
> 
> Here is what I would like to propose. Let's form a Ruby Visual Identity 
> Team, similar to the one formed for the launch of Mozilla Firefox 
> [1][2]. Our first project: to redesign ruby-lang.org. After that we 
> could offer our services for other projects. The Ruby documentation site 
> for instance [3]. Perhaps even get around to implementing a couple of 
> nice templates for RDoc [4].
> 
> I would suggest that the team be formed from people who have strong 
> design skills. _Why has been flirting with an idea for ruby-lang.org 
> [5]. I nominate him to be part of the team. I've also done my share of 
> design work for Web sites [6][7] and wouldn't mind being involved. Are 
> there others who can come forward and show evidence of there skills and 
> enthusiasm for this project? It would also be cool to have people with 
> strong coding skills, i.e. experience with pure CSS layout and XHTML.

While I'll probably not be able to spend a lot of time on this I would 
still like to help out with XHTML and CSS -- I've done this kind of 
stuff before and should still be fairly fluent in it.