Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

[Roy Bamford]

On 2013.01.05 05:47, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On 10:43 Mon 17 Dec     , Markos Chandras wrote:
> > On 16 December 2012 18:53, Andreas K. Huettel
> <dilfridge@g.o>
> wrote:
> > > How to do this, however, and what software to target should
> probably
> > > be decided by people who know more than me... and in the end it
> all
> > > boils down to "who has the time and motivation".
> >
> > Outsource it to someone who has the knowledge and interest in doing
> > this. The foundation has the funds to support it, and none of us
> > actually have the time to invest in a complete webpage redesign.
>
> I did much of the design work nearly 2 years ago:
>
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/gentoo_website/
> gentoo_landing_black.png
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/gentoo_website/
> gentoo_landing_install.png
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/gentoo_website/
> gentoo_landing_handbook.png
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/gentoo_website/
> gentoo_landing_handbook2.png
>
> Some early work on it using Bootstrap:
>
> http://a3li.li/~alex/g.o/
>
> That said, why the hell are we wasting time implementing our own
> website
> backend when we should be using a CMS? We're here to make a distro,
> not
> a website framework. No reason we should care, day to day, about
> anything but frontend theming and content.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Donnie
>
> Donnie Berkholz
> Council Member / Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux <http://dberkholz.com>
> Analyst, RedMonk <http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/>
>
Donnie.

We make our own website framework for the same reason that everything 
else happens in Gentoo.  Someone is interested in doing it.

I agree its not 'core business' but Gentoo isn't a business.

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