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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Eric Schabell wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:14:54AM +0200, Jaanus Heeringson wrote:
> > Eric Sandall wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 

Jaanus: look forwarding to seeing your ideas for better "presentation".

Eric Schabell: You may not be leading anything, but your opinions, as are
any developer/user, always welcome without disclaimer! That's just my 
opinion though... ;-)

-casey