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  • From: Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Public Relations article
  • Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:11:31 -0500 (CDT)



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





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