Community Web Themes Meeting Summary

[Jesper Jarlskov]

Hey

Is there really noone who has contact to the community web team?

Jesper Jarlskov
Ubuntu-DK

On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 19:45 +0200, Jesper Jarlskov wrote:
> Hey team
> 
> Are there any discussions about which versions of the different CMSs
> designs will be made for? Ubuntu-dk are currently looking into
> developing a new site in Drupal 7, and having a theme to use as a
> basis would be rocking.
> 
> Jesper Jarlskov
> Ubuntu-DK
> 
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Matthew Nuzum
> <matthew.nuzum at canonical.com> wrote:
>         Hello all, we had great participation for the community web
>         themes.
>         I'm attaching a document of the meeting. It's not an exact
>         transcriptions, I edited parts to make it more readable and to
>         reduce
>         the length.
>         
>         Here is my agenda and summary of what was decided for each
>         point. I'm
>         going to send a separate email for action items. Let me know
>         if I left
>         something important out.
>         
>          1. Introducing myself, others from the company
>          2. Mention new branding https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Brand2
>          3. Introduce the web presence team and invite those who are
>         interested to join it https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website
>          4. Indicate plans for releasing new website with new branding
>            1. Increased quality of content
>            2. Greater focus on appealing to a broader audience (ref.
>         Mark's
>         curve from UDS)
>            3. Better navigation
>            4. Far more complex of a theme and site management
>         work-flow
>          5. Discuss previous problems with fragmented community themes
>          6. Talk about ideals for forthcoming community themes
>            1. Unified and consistent
>            2. Designed to allow individual teams to express their
>         unique make-up
>            3. High quality, respects brand guidelines
>            4. Harmonious with but not identical to main www.ubuntu.com
>            5. Differing by application in ways that exploits the
>         benefits of
>         the platform (i.e. drupal theme may differ from wordpress,
>         wiki,
>         forum, etc)
>          7. Availability of assets to the community
>            1. CSS and images used in the website available to
>         community teams
>         at the time of site's launch, license details forthcoming
>            2. Logos and logo guidelines available at
>         http://www.canonical.com/logos
>              a. Please read and respect the logo usage guidelines
>              b. Please read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Brand
>              c. Please use this as a reference:
>         https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/VisualIdentity
>            3. Additional assets from the designers will be available
>         at, or
>         shortly after the launch of the new theme
>          8. What do we need
>            1. A plain, base HTML template that can be the foundation
>         for other
>         templates. Clean design, and code, easy to implement for other
>         themes
>            2. Application specific themes: wordpress, smf, drupal,
>         django,
>         rails, moin moin, planet planet, fluxbb/punbb, dokuwiki, elgg
>            3. A launchpad project, one branch per theme with a master
>         branch
>         for the base-theme containing resources used by the others
>            4. A place of reference for these themes -
>         https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/WebThemes
>            4. Mention the work by MTechnology and echowarp on a drupal
>         theme
>         and how we can use base-themes with ubuntu branding on top of
>         them
>         (ref zen drupal theme)
>          9. Who gets to use these themes?
>            1. Official community websites
>            2. It is not our plan for this project to create general
>         purpose themes
>            3. non-official community sites can use the themes if the
>         branding
>         is removed and they are made to look distinct from the
>         community
>         themes
>               * Exceptions may be made for unofficial community sites,
>         case
>         in point being "spread ubuntu."
>         
>         
>         
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>         they
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