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Subject: Re: PostgreSQL.org v3 -- Progress?
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:55:34 -0000
Message-ID: <03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B8720200@mail.vale-housing.co.uk>
Thread-Topic: [pgsql-www] PostgreSQL.org v3 -- Progress?
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From: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
To: "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>, <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com]=20
> Sent: 09 December 2003 17:55
> To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
> Subject: [pgsql-www] PostgreSQL.org v3 -- Progress?
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> People,
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> First of all, I posted questions regarding getting=20
> jobs.postgresql.org built last week and received no feedback=20
> whatsoever other than a request for the=20
> PDF from Francisco.   Is everybody on vacation?

No, just very busy with uni work (in my case anyhoo). I finish this
module tomorrow, and with the exception of having to come up with a
dissertation topic (suggestions *very* welcome - it's for an MSc in IT)
I'm now on a break until February so will hopefully have a bit more time
free.

I'm fairly indifferent about how the site is designed from a s/w spec
point of view. What I do think matters is:

- the design should match what we're aiming for on the portal (the most
common complaint I hear is that all our sites look different).

- the look and feel should be centralised so we can update the design of
the entire site by changing only a single stylesheet and template or
similar.

- Ideally please use PHP/PostgreSQL as that is what most of us know.

As for your pal putting his name on his work, I think that is only fair
if he is doing the work, as long as it is not obtrusive.

> Second, my web guru pointed out to me that in addition to=20
> www.postgresql.org being multi-language, some parts of the=20
> web site need to be multi-*locale* as=20
> well.   For example, News, Events, Jobs, etc.   Just because=20
> the Spanish and=20
> the Mexicans speak the same language it doesn't mean that the=20
> Spanish want to know about  training courses in Jalisco.

I assume that's fairly easy isn't it Andreas? Just a case of using the
full identifier in the code (eg pt_BR for Brazilian Portuguese or pt_PT
for Portuguese Portuguese).

> Thirdly, and most importantly:   A professional design firm=20
> has offered their=20
> pro-bono help with web design (they are PostgreSQL users).=20=20=20
> Do we want them=20
> involved in the WWW effort, and if so, how?

I think we need some commitment of the work being undertaken by the rest
of the team first - our major problem seems to be that although we're
all basically enthusiastic, we're all pretty busy. I think the main
priorities right now should be v3.0, but then there is also a new
techdocs site to consider as well. So, Andreas, Michael et al. can you
let us know if you have any sort of roadmap for getting v3 live?

Cheers, Dave.