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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Jaanus Heeringson <jaanus AT heeringson.com>:
> 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.

True, and I believe Oadae and thewolf were working on updating the look, but 
I'm
not sure on their progress.

> 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.

That'd be great! :) I'm not much of a PR person so I've been kind of lost when
it comes to that and thinking of just posting to /., OSNews, etc. saying, 
"Here
we are, we're awesome, come and play." (well, not quite like that ;)).

> 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.

Heh, you /have/ been around for a while then. ;)
 
> 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.

Perhaps if we decide to move to the distributed layout of our sites we'll take
you up on it. ;) Or could yours host the entire distro?
 
-sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us                  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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