From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-02-18T01:40:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Visual Identity Team

Thanks for the volunteer summary, I will be sure to add those to the project
as soon as its been created.

Curt

Ben Giddings wrote:
>
> So Matz asked Chad Fowler, David A. Black and James Britt to lead the
> effort to form teams to spruce up ruby-lang.org
>
> === What needs to be done? ===
>
> According to Matz:
>    * form a team to design the appearance
>    * form another team to choose the CMS
>    * create prototype on that CMS
>    * www-admin would replace www.ruby-lang.org
>
> I'd add 1 thing to that, which is to have another team go over the
> current ruby-lang.org site and find outdated pages and broken links.
> This team could then submit one big email to www-admin@ruby-lang.org
> with the list of suggested fixes.  This would just be a band-aid measure
> until the big redesign could be finished.
>
> === Volunteers so far ===
>
> Designers:
> John Long <ng@johnwlong.com>
> http://wiseheartdesign.com/
>
> Michel Martens <blaumag@gmail.com>
> http://www.soveran.com/
> http://www.soveran.org/
>
> HTML/CSS:
> Florian Gross <flgr@ccan.de>
>
> Organization / Cheerleading:
> Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com>
>
> Whatever I can do to help / Cheerleading:
> Me (Ben Giddings) <bg-rubytalk@infofiend.com>
>
> === People I hope will volunteer ===
>
> why_the_lucky_stiff, for his m@d cartoons, graphics, enthusiasm, and
> panache.
> http://whytheluckystiff.net/
>
> David Heinemeier Hanson <david@loudthinking.com>, for his m@d business
> skills, and ability to create and promote awesome ideas (and whoever did
> the design for rubyonrails.org, if it wasn't DHH).
> http://www.basecamphq.com/
> http://www.rubyonrails.org/
>
> Tim Sutherland <timsuth@ihug.co.nz>
> His weekly summaries are great, so hopefully he could be involved in
> adding something like that to the main Ruby site.
>
> === People I hope will volunteer ===
>
> Curt Hibbs is currently setting up a Rubyforge project to help organize
> the effort, and will use its mailing list, trackers, and wiki.
>
> Curt, why don't you take it from here, and tell people what they should
> do next.
>
> Ben
>
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