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[Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:14:54AM +0200, Jaanus Heeringson wrote:
> Eric Sandall wrote:
> 
> >This[0] might be interesting for some of us. ;) Perhaps I can get SMGL on 
> >the
> >"radar".
> >
> That is a pretty good article to get started, but there might be some 
> other things you might consider also:
> 
> Currently the SMGL project is mainly content and not much presentation. 
> There is a working distro, but you really don't get that impression when 
> landing och www.sourcemage.org. To make it a bit more attractive you 
> might consider improving the presentation, namly logo, website etc (no 
> offense meant for those who created them). If the presentation of the 
> project is poor a lot of people, even developers, won't get past that 
> point to the actually consider the content.
> 
> The reason I bring it up is that I do marketing for a living, and it 
> looks like I finally have some spare time on my hands. I'm one of those 
> strange types that work as both Professional Designer and Developer, and 
> my main area of expertise is branding and interaction design. If it is 
> desireable I could put together a proposal for what I consider needs to 
> be done to enhance the presentation of the project, and then also do 
> some of the actual work :) based on your feedback.
> 
> I have considerabel experience with SMGL since I came on the train 
> during the original Sorcery project. Unforunetly I have not contributed 
> much historically, mainly since i have not found the time to take the 
> rough edges of my spells, but maby I can do it now.
> 
> I have a couple of servers running SMGL and will be moving them to a 
> co-location facility in the coming months. The servers are tuned for 
> running PHP5, MySQL (4.11), Postfix and Cyrus-imap, so if there is need 
> to deploy a new website on this platform, I will donate space & bw.
> 
I am sure that both Eric Sandall (PL) and Jason Flatt (web) would love
this offer... I know I do! ;-)

My opinion is just that as I am no longer leading anything here, so for
what it's worth, thanks for the offer.

erics