[Fwd: [Design-team] (non-fedora) design for www.kernel.org]

[Ankur Sinha]

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> From: Konstantin Ryabitsev 
> Reply-to: Fedora Design Team 
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> Subject: [Design-team] (non-fedora) design for www.kernel.org
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:19:24 -0500
>
> Hi, Fedora design team!
>
> I apologize for a non-fedora request, but considering that we're
> "upstream" of Fedora, I figured it wouldn't be too frowned upon. Plus,
> I've been active with Fedora for so long, you guys are the first place
> I could think of to go to for a volunteer site design for
> kernel.org. :)
>
> If any of you have visited www.kernel.org lately, you'll notice that
> it looks like it was last revamped in 1995. I'm working on redoing the
> website, and as part of that effort I'd like to introduce a slightly
> less austere facelift. Perhaps some of you would like to lend me a
> hand? The following are some of the requirements:
>      1. People go to www.kernel.org to find out the latest kernel
>         info, so the releases table seen on the front page must be
>         above-fold if at all possible. This is really the core service
>         of the site.
>      2. The design should use the default Linux Penguin logo somewhere
>         prominent. We *are* the home of Linux.
>      3. The design should remain conservative and elinks-friendly.
>         You'd be surprised how many hits we get from terminal
>         browsers.
>      4. I think we should keep the existing yellow-white-blue colour
>         scheme to preserve continuity.
>      5. "Site news" will be on its own page -- nobody really cares to
>         have that on the front page. Other content will be updated and
>         shrunk but remain largely similar.
>      6. I like the links-footer
>         on https://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora, -- something like
>         that would work very well for kernel.org.
>      7. It's going to be a statically-generated website using pelican
>         (http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.1.1/). There is no active
>         content anywhere, so all I'm looking for, really, is a very
>         handy header and a very handy footer. :)
> If any of you are interested, please let me know. I would be happy to
> provide you with more information. I will be happy, of course, to
> credit the Fedora Design team on the site.
> Best,
>
> Konstantin Ryabitsev
> Linux Foundation, kernel.org
> Montréal, Québec
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