New join.fedoraproject.org website - what do you think?

[Ankur Sinha]

Hello,

I've never liked the current join.fedoraproject.org[0] site - it
redirects to an ugly wiki page which is pretty much a massive data
dump. It is unreadable, unfriendly, and boring - all three virtues that
would drive away potential contributors instead of attracting them.

So, in the spirit of free and open source software, I've hacked up a
replacement[1]. I would love your feedback on this. The idea is to
polish this up and use this as join.fedoraproject.org. At the moment,
it is only a prototype - even the name is going to change ;)

There are a couple of issues open already, please comment on the
relevant ones, or file new ones[2], or you can just reply to this e-
mail with your comments :)

Newbies - this is your chance to tell us what you think!

[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join
[1] https://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/charlie/v2/
[2] https://pagure.io/fedora-charlie/issues

[Marcel Ribeiro Dantas]

Em 14 de set de 2016 7:07 AM, "Ankur Sinha" 
escreveu:
> Hello,
>
> I've never liked the current join.fedoraproject.org[0] site - it
> redirects to an ugly wiki page which is pretty much a massive data
> dump. It is unreadable, unfriendly, and boring - all three virtues that
> would drive away potential contributors instead of attracting them.

You are definetely right.
> So, in the spirit of free and open source software, I've hacked up a
> replacement[1]. I would love your feedback on this. The idea is to
> polish this up and use this as join.fedoraproject.org. At the moment,
> it is only a prototype - even the name is going to change ;)

I'm on my mobile right now but I already love it. Congrats!

mribeirodantas

[Amita]

On 09/14/2016 05:46 PM, Marcel Ribeiro Dantas wrote:
> Em 14 de set de 2016 7:07 AM, "Ankur Sinha" <[e-mail] 
> > escreveu:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've never liked the current join.fedoraproject.org
>
> http://join.fedoraproject.org[0] site - it
> > redirects to an ugly wiki page which is pretty much a massive data
> > dump. It is unreadable, unfriendly, and boring - all three virtues that
> > would drive away potential contributors instead of attracting them.
>
> You are definetely right.
> > So, in the spirit of free and open source software, I've hacked up a
> > replacement[1]. I would love your feedback on this. The idea is to
> > polish this up and use this as join.fedoraproject.org
>
> http://join.fedoraproject.org. At the moment,
> > it is only a prototype - even the name is going to change ;)

Thanks for doing it, It is amazing :)

Regards,
Amita
> I'm on my mobile right now but I already love it. Congrats!
>
> mribeirodantas
>
> fedora-join mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[e-mail]....

[Ankur Sinha]

On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 09:16 -0300, Marcel Ribeiro Dantas wrote:
> I'm on my mobile right now but I already love it. Congrats!

Awesome! Thanks for the feedback, Amita, David, Marcel!

Can I ask everyoe to go over the site in some detail to see what we can
improve more? Also, please ask your friends in the community or just in
general to take a look - the more feedback we get, the better it'll be.
If you know some newbies to show the site too, that'll be even better!
:D

I think I'll post a feedback request on the community blog sometime
too, but until then, whatever feedback we can collect would still be
quite helpful :)

[David Shier]

I suspect that this is obvious enough, maybe not, but it also probably 
doesn't warrent a ticket. The blye link on the purple is a bit hard to 
read. You might want to change either the purple back ground, or the 
blue like text color, other that that, in so far as I have gone it looks 
pretty good.

Thanks,

Dave Shier

On 09/14/2016 06:06 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've never liked the current join.fedoraproject.org[0] site - it
> redirects to an ugly wiki page which is pretty much a massive data
> dump. It is unreadable, unfriendly, and boring - all three virtues that
> would drive away potential contributors instead of attracting them.
>
> So, in the spirit of free and open source software, I've hacked up a
> replacement[1]. I would love your feedback on this. The idea is to
> polish this up and use this as join.fedoraproject.org. At the moment,
> it is only a prototype - even the name is going to change ;)
>
> There are a couple of issues open already, please comment on the
> relevant ones, or file new ones[2], or you can just reply to this e-
> mail with your comments :)
>
> Newbies - this is your chance to tell us what you think!
>
> [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join
> [1] https://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/charlie/v2/
> [2] https://pagure.io/fedora-charlie/issues
>
> fedora-join mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[e-mail]....

[Ankur Sinha]

On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 22:12 -0400, David Shier wrote:
> I suspect that this is obvious enough, maybe not, but it also
> probably doesn't warrent a ticket. The blye link on the purple is a
> bit hard to read. You might want to change either the purple back
> ground, or the blue like text color, other that that, in so far as I
> have gone it looks pretty good.

Yea - I think we'll end up redoing the colours a bit - the palette is
the Fedora palette, and the links are blue from bootstrap.

I'll go ask the design team to give it a once over.

[Ankur Sinha]

On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 22:12 -0400, David Shier wrote:
> Thanks,

Just a heads up that I've moved the source and the demo:

https://pagure.io/join-website/

https://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/join-v2/

So, it isn't called Charlie any more. I'm going to see if it's possible
to select a random Fedora contributor off badges[1] and use their name
and avatar - that way, each time you access the site, you get a new
Fedora contributor welcoming you - maybe from a different part of the
world. How does that sound?

[1] http://badges.fedoraproject.org/

If you want to add things to this demo, please feel free to open a pull
request - it's an easy way to get started :)