[Tor www-team] Website requirements and goals

Tue Jan 7 16:33:16 UTC 2014

Hi everyone,

I am Shweta and have 2 years of work-experience as software engineer - 1
year with Yahoo! and 1 year with a startup Wingify. Now I am back to school
for masters. This will be my first foss and I would like to help with
design.

As lunar mentioned that we have 5 types of audiences to cater to and we can
either have single site for all or different site for different audience.
In my opinion this is a critical decision as it will lay down foundation
for other decisions. So, maybe we can run a poll among community members to
find out which one is best option in their opinion.

On 7 January 2014 21:29, Olssy <olssy1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone, I'm olssy and have about 8 years experience in PHP CMS
> development, integration, testing and migration. I'm currently working on a
> migration from a custom CMS to Drupal for www.2600.com as well as a bit
> of redesigning of their site. I main expertise is in PHP, MySQL, CSS3 and
> Javascript and get great pleasure from doing massive migrations of content
> using command line tools. I would also like to mention that Drupal offers
> many ways to generate static pages.
>
> olssy
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Namanyay Goel <mail at namanyayg.com> wrote:
>
>> Introductions sound like a good idea, I'll start!
>>
>> I'm Namanyay Goel, a freelance designer/developer. I'm great at front end
>> parts of things, but not so good at the backend. I'll be able to help in
>> the design and the front-end coding.
>>
>> As for the '5 community' problem, I don't think it's a huge issue. We
>> have 5 different (main) pages in the site, they being:
>>
>> * / (The homepage, which offers download links and the novice user
>> things. Wouldn't need much content, honestly)
>> * /docs
>> * /research
>> * /law
>> * /dev.
>>
>> With a design like MDN, or PHP (new design), this could be easily
>> achieved.
>>
>> Also, I think we should all move to Github, or at least Git.
>> Open-sourcing what we do will definitely make us more known in the
>> community.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Lunar <lunar at torproject.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> We are at 89 subscribers on the www-team mailing list. That's quite a
>>> success! Welcome to all! Feel free to introduce yourself on your first
>>> post.
>>>
>>> I was hoping to wait some more time before kicking off discussions,
>>> but it looks like we are already starting. :)
>>>
>>> Rohan Smith:
>>> > I am willing to assist and would like to get some high level
>>> > information about the goals of this project.
>>>
>>> Our main issue right now is that the current website is trying to serve
>>> too many audiences at once. Andrew identified 5 different audiences in
>>> <https://bugs.torproject.org/5998>. We need to design either several
>>> websites, or a single website that better address the needs of these
>>> audiences. Introductory material regarding how Tor works and how to use
>>> it must be translatable.
>>>
>>> The following wiki page also contains some notes from discussion we had
>>> during the 30C3. Feel free to amend it with any relevant information
>>> regarding the website redesign:
>>> <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/Website>
>>>
>>> Technically, the website is currently constructed using WML. While it
>>> works, it will feel ancient to anyone who tried a recent static website
>>> generator like Jekyll. Getting support for Markdown formated pages would
>>> probably help more people to write content.
>>>
>>> The current website code is available using Subversion:
>>> <https://svn.torproject.org/svn/website/trunk/>
>>>
>>> > It also piqued my interest because the current site is done with
>>> > Drupal and that is my area of expertise.
>>>
>>> To be clear about this: the blog is currently made with Drupal, but the
>>> idea is to either convert it to a static website generator now or to
>>> integrate it while redoing the website.
>>>
>>> For more information about the blog conversion, feel free to look at the
>>> tickets already opened by Andrew:
>>> <
>>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/milestone/2014%20Tor%20Blog%20Replacement
>>> >
>>>
>>> --
>>> Lunar                                             <lunar at torproject.org>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Namanyay Goel <http://namanyayg.com/>
>>
>> :: Freelance Web Designer and Developer.
>> :: UI Designer at MakeUseOf <http://makeuseof.com/>.
>> :: Author at Symmetrycode <http://symmetrycode.com/>.
>> :: @namanyayg <http://twitter.com/namanyayg>
>>
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Thanks & Regards
Shweta Agrawal
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