Re: [general] New Arabeyes Drupal Website

["Youssef Chahibi" <chahibi at gmail dot com>]

One note: I like the current website theming. Mimicking it would be
functional yet good looking for a first draft.

2008/8/5, Djihed Afifi <djihedlists at googlemail dot com>:
> Salam,
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> Ossama, Abderrahim, Sameer and Khaled have already given their ideas
> better than I could. So here is a summary of what I think we agree on.
>
> I think the website team has been formed:
> * Mohamed Farag.
> * Mohamed Sameer.
> * Daif Al-Otaibi.
> * Abderrahim Kitouni.
>
> I'd suggest Farag to take care of leading the team. You should really
> take a lot of input from Sameer especially with regards to management of
> the revamp. Abderrahim knows what the current site has. Daif saw the
> actual code and tinkered with it :)
>
> Please take the following notes and the previous emails, be practical
> and see what they'll lead to. Farag, in your server, can you setup four
> accounts for the above team? If not, please let us know ASAP so we set
> this up somewhere.
>
> More worky, less talky :) Should we meet Friday 18:00pm GMT? (website
> team) I personally will just be a bystander :-)
>
> In the future, could you guys use
> http://wiki.arabeyes.org/Website_Revamp to track the status of the
> project? using the wiki has proved very good at managing and letting
> people know what is done and what needs to be done.
>
> Summary:
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> * A prototype means a mostly working instance that takes minimal effort
> to integrate. i.e We need minimal code to get it up and running. Mostly
> just configuration.
>
> You may, of course, show off parts of the work from time to time, and
> you are encouraged to do that. At some point, we'll talk to adn to get
> you a subdomain so you install your stuff to the Arabeyes server, which
> would then be transferred as the main site when things are done.
>
> I also think design should get into it. Feel free to leech off whatever
> graphics you may find on the current site.
>
> * Multinlingual: this is probably priority 1. It has to support both
> Arabic and English. If a compromise has to be reached, go for Arabic.
> i.e the emphasis has to be on Arabic.
>
> At one point we used to be a lot more geared towards upstream
> developers. Now our users are mostly Arabic speaking translators and
> developers.
>
> * Functionality: daif can help you a lot here as he saw code and he has
> proved capable of tweaking it. Here is what we need:
> - News.
> - Press section.
> - Contact, about.
> - A hall of fame section.
> - SVN information (howto and statistics).
> - Downloads.
> - Projects (this should largely mirror the current main projects page).
> Please allow for a "dead projects" subsection - could be as simple as a
> flag in the db. You can make it one big nice page if you want! but
> please let us have an easy way of adding/deleting projects. As Sameer
> described: each project should have icon, logo, description, and
> maintainer. The rest should go to the wiki I think. Just give a link to
> the wiki page.
>
> Khaled's idea of "sub-projects" may also be nice. But please leave it
> off for now until we see what you guys come up with.
>
> - Mailing list integration (subscription, etc)
> - Donate section.
> - Member list and profile pages.
> + it should allow for simple addition of other sections. I assume the
> popular CMS's make this simple ATM.
>
>
> One rule of thumb: KEEP IT SIMPLE. If you think you are making it too
> complicated, you probably are :)
>
> An example of a site that look good and is simple:
> http://www.transmissionbt.com/
>
>
> * On LDAP: adn, I know you are busy, but just let us know whether we can
> do this very easily. We currently have SVN + Wiki + trac + new site, and
> it would be nice to be able to integrate all three.
>
> * Choice of CMS: I'm honestly not too knowledgable of the differences
> between what's available. But here is one piece of advice, Farag:
>
> Pick one, research if necessary. Stick to it, and do it. Feel free to
> pilot and try what's available, and come to a rational conclusion :-).
>
>
> Djihed
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> في ن، 04-08-2008 عند 09:03 +0200 ، كتب Mohamed Farag:
>> Thank you so much Djihad for your efforts yesterday!
>> Thank you all for the enjoyable time.
>>
>> I need your opinion before going ahead and install a test install on my
>> server, therefore making a prototype as Djihad requested.
>>
>> First: for all:
>>
>> Drupal 6.3 Arabic files are not ready yet.
>> Should we install Version 6 and use the Arabic files made available for
>> 6.3 (that are originally for 5.9)?
>> And start a new project for testing and it.
>> http://drupal.org/node/232828
>>
>> Or should we go with the older version of Drupal (V. 5.9) with its
>> Arabic language files that is stable and tested? just to be practical?
>> http://drupal.org/node/232778
>>
>> and then we can make a plan for upgrading?
>>
>>
>> Second:
>> For all:
>> Please send me all your ideas for the new website in all aspects and
>> functions/ modules, features that you see important. All your inputs will
>> of course be subject to discussion and consensus approval.
>>
>> Third:
>> For Djihad: What exactly do you need in the prototype?
>> Also, do you mean a working install of the CMS, but not fully filled with
>> data and stuff..or just homepage design under drupal?
>>
>> Also, do you think I should start website discussions in the admin list,
>> or dev list? or here in the general list?
>>
>> I will also need to have contact with Daif to arrange our work on this
>> project. Then we can give an expected deadline for the prototype.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mohamed
>>
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