17:01:07 #startmeeting Websites Meeting for 8-14-2009 17:01:21 #topic Who's here? 17:01:59 * onekopaka 17:02:19 ricky: ping 17:02:24 i'm here 17:02:34 FergatROn: oh good. 17:02:46 nb__: ping 17:02:51 * nb 17:02:52 i thought the meeting would be in #fedora-meeting? 17:02:57 kind of here at least 17:03:01 FergatROn: FESco gets that 17:03:12 no ricky here? 17:03:24 nb: apparently not. 17:03:47 so if ricky isn't here... do we have an agenda? 17:03:58 #topic get.fpo 17:04:11 FergatROn: I guess. 17:04:16 mizmo: ping 17:04:40 I'm just curious onekopaka - is there an agenda? I mean posted for all to see? :D 17:04:54 FergatROn: posted, no. In my head, yes. 17:04:59 hahah 17:05:12 FergatROn: it's a relavent one though 17:05:30 FergatROn: but mizmo isn't here. which ruins it.. 17:06:08 mizmo: and.. we're moving on. 17:06:14 well, we at least know their IRC clients are logged in. 17:06:50 #topic F12 tasks recap 17:07:14 well 17:07:31 hi im here 17:07:38 mizmo: oh good. 17:07:38 hey mizmo 17:07:42 yo 17:07:53 mizmo: lemme quickly finish this topic 17:08:19 Infra is frozen, I know that much 17:08:27 well not all of it 17:08:41 we can still change valueadd and i think proxy is unfrozen too ricky said 17:08:55 nb: noted. 17:09:18 #info valueadd servers and proxys are unfrozen in the Infra freeze 17:09:38 theres a graphic somewhere that says what is unfrozen 17:09:50 nb: could you dig it up? 17:10:03 i will try 17:10:15 mizmo: does your team have a banner for the alpha? 17:11:08 #link http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fedora-infrastructure.git?p=fedora-infrastructure.git;a=blob_plain;f=architecture/Environments.odg;hb=HEAD 17:11:32 I see this from Paolo Leoni: https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/4/46/Deepsky-fedora12alpha-banner1.png 17:11:49 onekopaka: we have a draft 17:11:55 onekopaka: i believe we picked a different design 17:12:17 mizmo: would you happen to have a link for it? 17:12:39 onekopaka: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/banner.png 17:13:04 i like it 17:13:11 isnt the name Constantine? 17:13:15 yes 17:13:17 looks nice 17:13:17 so i gather that is why the roman design 17:13:21 yeppers 17:13:22 :) 17:13:26 * FergatROn doesn't like it... but he hasn't been around long either! 17:13:50 * hiemanshu is sorry for being late 17:13:50 hiemanshu: hi, you here for websites? 17:13:54 onekopaka: yup 17:14:13 mizmo: so I'm gonna #Link that draft 17:14:19 #link http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/banner.png 17:14:19 sure 17:14:44 so I think we are good with Fedora 12 schedule. 17:14:56 anyone got a backlog? 17:15:34 hiemanshu: not much has happened, we talked about the Infra freeze and which parts are / are not frozen 17:15:54 onekopaka: ah ok 17:15:54 we're gonna move back to mizmo for get.fpo 17:15:57 no ricky today? 17:16:04 hey mizmo 17:16:07 #topic get.fpo (for real) 17:16:09 hi 17:16:21 when are we supposed to branch the website? 17:16:52 nb: I was talking with ricky about that yesterday. I was going to a push an f11 branch. 17:17:00 tmz, oh ok 17:17:03 that was just before the reboots, so I held off. 17:17:39 mizmo: I think you better try to get in your part 17:17:42 nb: I also want to check with ricky to ensure any syncing scripts will do the right thing before I push that. :) 17:18:05 tmz, i think we'll need to change syncStatic.sh 17:18:08 * nb can do that if you want 17:18:13 onekopaka: what do you mean? 17:18:35 mizmo: what's your status on get.fpo 17:18:52 onekopaka: i have mockups 17:18:58 i posted them to planet this past week 17:19:04 i worked on them with stickster 17:19:16 they're 3rd draft at this point but still need tweaks 17:19:18 mizmo: and it's prolly scrolled off planet ;-) 17:19:45 front page of www.fpo http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/page1.png 17:19:55 get.fpo front page http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/page2.png 17:20:04 do not yet have the more options mocked up (alternative arches etc) 17:20:13 download splash http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/page3.png 17:20:26 #link http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/page1.png 17:20:28 spins.fpo first page http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/spins-directory.6.png 17:21:15 mizmo: i think we were looking for making x64 more visible and most people dont like to read text to get there 17:21:19 tmz, yeah, it looks like syncStatic.sh is what clones fedora-web from git, builds it, and then makes it live on the proxies 17:21:36 #link http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/page2.png 17:21:40 #link http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/page3.png 17:21:58 hiemanshu: this is designed according to the requirements the board gave me 17:21:58 #link http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/spins-directory.6.png 17:22:06 hiemanshu: the secondary arch screen will have x86_64 17:22:15 mizmo: yeah i read that part 17:22:28 im not driving the requirements 17:22:34 mizmo: but a better placed or atleast more obvious option would be better 17:22:42 again :) 17:22:44 not my choice 17:22:45 hiemanshu, you might tell that to the board 17:23:00 we have an 'other options' link right next to the huge download button 17:23:02 hiemanshu, she's not the one deciding what it looks like, she's just the one implementing it 17:23:06 nb: i lost the thread about requirements 17:23:23 nb: well im doing the screen design / visual layout, but what is on the page and isn't is decided by the board 17:23:32 mizmo, yeah, thats what i meant 17:23:39 * hiemanshu nods 17:23:55 i think its a good idea though 17:23:57 mizmo: great work i have to say though /me loves it 17:23:58 to only have one download link 17:24:06 thanks :) 17:24:29 #info mizmo doesn't decide what's on the page, the evil wonderful board does 17:24:54 onekopaka: stop behaving your age :P 17:25:12 hiemanshu: noted. 17:25:31 mizmo: I'm liking the mockups 17:25:46 mizmo: i do have a few notes on the mockups that i ll send to the list 17:25:53 hiemanshu: cool that would be great 17:26:03 got 80 comments on the blog post lol but always room for more 17:26:29 * hiemanshu wonders if fedora has a mascot 17:26:45 hiemanshu: yes, its "me"! :) 17:26:54 that panda seems to want to be the mascot. 17:27:07 onekopaka: yup exactly what i wanted to know 17:27:17 * hiemanshu should ask the board to decide on this 17:27:39 can i get any +1's on this? 17:27:41 mizmo: are you proud of that panda? 17:28:03 * FergatROn thinks the panda looks great! 17:28:19 * onekopaka likes the panda too. 17:28:35 * hiemanshu likes it too but wants to let the board decide 17:28:41 and mizmo did the panda totally in Inkscape 17:28:49 onekopaka: i ilke the panda but it needs a little more work 17:28:55 mizmo: is there any symoblism with the panda or is it just a graphic element? 17:29:11 FergatROn: well i like the idea of a panda because they're black and white like tux is :) 17:29:13 FergatROn: they're cute 17:29:19 mizmo: was the panda your idea or the boards? 17:29:19 FergatROn: no other big distro has a bear for a mascot 17:29:30 hiemanshu: panda was my idea but the board members i've shown it to like it 17:29:41 mizmo: then that should work 17:29:45 mizmo: so we'll see more big bears and peguins mixing it up on Fedora's site? :D 17:29:47 hiemanshu: the idea was inspired by getfirefox.com that has a lot of cute animals like dolphins, etc 17:29:54 FergatROn: well maybe not penguins, just pandas 17:30:13 FergatROn: we could do a penguin and a panda together at some point though if we want to point at upstream linux 17:30:26 mizmo: yeah seen that, a bigger panda could symbolize power 17:30:36 hiemanshu: kung fu panda :) 17:30:43 mizmo: sure :) 17:30:50 did you guys see nicu's post about the panda 17:30:59 mizmo: we need to symbolize something through the mascots 17:31:01 hiemanshu: mizmo haha - there's certainly room for improvement. Has anyone thought of a mascot before? 17:31:07 so are we agreeing that the panda is the new mascot? 17:31:16 onekopaka: unofficially yes 17:31:20 http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/08/great-panda-debate.html 17:31:31 onekopaka: i think the board will make the final decision. It seems like most of us like it though. 17:31:33 FergatROn: yeh there was some work a long time ago but we couldn't decide what to use 17:31:45 #link http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/08/great-panda-debate.html 17:32:09 the panda doesn't have to be an official mascot either, just a cute character for the site. e.g, like i mentioned some of the firefox pages have dolphins and birds. but their mascot is the firefox 17:32:38 oops i forgot about this window 17:32:42 #agreed the panda is the unofficial mascot and the board will decide on the panda's mascot credibility 17:33:12 #action Speak to the board and ask if they like the Panda to me the Fedora mascot 17:33:21 (Thats after the Panda agrees though) 17:33:30 s/me/be 17:33:42 hiemanshu: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/photos/fudcon2009berlin/889-img_1793.jpg.medium.jpeg <= i talked to the panda over some drinks and he agrees 17:34:14 mizmo: so there we go, the Panda agrees as well 17:34:32 (with a little drink and bamboo he's quite agreeable ;-) ) 17:34:32 so we need the Board to decide on it 17:34:33 stickster: ping 17:35:04 mizmo: with a hug as well ;) 17:35:19 http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/photos/fudcon2009berlin/652-img_1517.jpg.medium.jpeg seems to show a position by stickster on pandas. 17:36:30 * onekopaka thinks stickster isn't going to answer 17:36:45 * stickster on phone -- oops, sorry! 17:36:50 heh 17:37:10 stickster: oh, okay. sorry for interrupting your phone call 17:37:22 * stickster notes that he asked the Board to weigh in on mockups on FAB lsit 17:38:12 stickster: so what's your opinion on the panda though? 17:38:47 ....spppsssshhh.... i think he's on the phone with the panda working out a contrcat 17:38:50 ;-) 17:39:08 heh 17:39:53 that panda's a big-time deal maker. stickster's gonna need all his wits about him! 17:40:18 stickster: tell him i can offer him a life time supply of drinks of his choice 17:40:25 hiemanshu: dont forget the bamboo 17:40:36 mizmo: common spend something atleast :P 17:40:46 so im wondering does anyone have time to start maybe working on some html for the mockups so far, or do we think it's too soon to do this? 17:41:15 mizmo: i could 17:41:18 hiemanshu: do you wish to take this tasak? 17:41:20 task* 17:41:24 onekopaka: yup 17:41:26 i could start 17:41:35 the design still may change a little, but, for the front page 17:41:41 #action hiemanshu to work on full-blown html mockups. 17:41:41 i think it'll end up being the same rough layout 17:41:45 let me grab that mockup again 17:41:53 http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/page1.png 17:42:07 the content might change slightly but the layout for that i think is pretty solid 17:42:09 mizmo: i have links 17:42:17 cool 17:42:35 mizmo: just send me the source files 17:42:44 irc nick @fp.o 17:42:45 hiemanshu: they are in the same directory 17:42:54 * stickster gets off phone 17:42:56 http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/fedora-v4_12col.svg 17:43:03 stickster: what did the panda say? 17:43:27 OK, as far as the panda goes -- honestly, I think he's helpful in a directional way, as a stand-in or proxy for the web page user. 17:43:29 But 17:43:43 mizmo: got it 17:44:05 I think he also has the potential to annoy some of our contributor contingent who think that he's then automatically a mascot that has had no community input 17:44:39 stickster: so the community at large should vote? 17:44:43 When I look at the after-download page, though, I see a lot of text there. A character or graphic really breaks that up in a good way. 17:45:10 I think we've been down the voting road before and it's not been terribly productive. 17:45:19 hmm. 17:45:38 I mean, if the overall vote is in favor of an ugly toad, does that mean we are saddled with an ugly toad? 17:45:46 so give the community 3 version of a panda to vote on! onekopaka stickster :D 17:46:17 I'm not terribly concerned about the panda per se. What I am concerned about is having a web site that makes it easy for people to find and download Fedora. 17:46:32 sijis_afk has input on the export regulations disclaimer 17:46:44 http://sijis.fedorapeople.org/disclaimer 17:46:53 is his non-integrated mockup 17:46:58 mizmo: ricky: Don't let me drag the meeting back to this if you're looking to go to another topic 17:47:23 One last note -- I've asked the Board members to start weighing in on the FAB list about the design mockups 17:47:52 onekopaka: sijis's mockup looks like it'll match what the lawyers were looking for so that's great 17:47:58 stickster: ricky isn't here, I'm the chair =) 17:48:07 mizmo: cool 17:48:41 #agreed http://sijis.fedorapeople.org/disclaimer looks like what the lawyers want 17:48:55 onekopaka: Excellent, thanks 17:48:57 thanks stickster 17:49:39 blogs topic? 17:49:45 onekopaka: nope 17:49:49 onekopaka: still the same no update 17:49:51 nb: ping 17:49:55 hiemanshu: WRONG! 17:50:06 hiemanshu: there's totally an update from sijis_afk 17:50:12 #topic blogs.fpo 17:50:32 wow, how did i miss that! 17:50:34 sijis_afk had left this txt file: http://sijis.fedorapeople.org/web-updates.txt 17:50:47 hiemanshu: by losing power, I assume 17:51:04 so he's working on HAProxy on pt16 17:51:33 and he'll do a *graphical* document on HAProxy (the HAProxy docs are bad) 17:52:04 * hiemanshu was kept busy with personal stuff 17:52:23 hiemanshu: like stiches in an arm. 17:52:29 onekopaka: lot more than that 17:52:42 32 stitches can do no harm to /me 17:52:45 hiemanshu: mhmm. 17:53:10 #info 32 stitches can do "no harm" to hiemanshu 17:53:27 onekopaka: stop behaving your age! 17:53:31 said that before 17:53:38 so 17:53:39 i need to work on documenting blogs more 17:53:56 i think i'll make a post on the front page and maybe a help or something telling people that you use your fas login, etc 17:53:58 * onekopaka failed at screencasts. 17:54:05 and to contact blogadmin-members if you have problems 17:54:10 .members blogadmin 17:54:12 onekopaka is a big L 17:54:14 * nb forgets if he added sijis 17:54:22 yeah 17:54:38 hiemanshu: that's not very nice. 17:54:54 #info onekopaka failed at screencasts 17:54:56 :P 17:55:11 #info this meeting needs to regain focus on the subject at hand 17:55:24 ORDER! 17:55:33 * onekopaka slams down a gavlin 17:55:37 so 17:55:39 * nb thinks onekopaka means gavel 17:55:46 nb: of course. 17:56:04 so.... 17:56:08 do we have anything else? 17:56:11 although if a gavlin is a cross between a gavel and a javelin it might be effective because people may think you might spear them with it if they do not listen 17:56:13 onekopaka: close to one hour mark 17:56:23 hiemanshu: does it matter? 17:56:26 nb: whos going offtopic now 17:56:28 nb: yes, it is! 17:56:37 * nb hides in fear 17:56:38 onekopaka: yup, ricky likes to close it within an hour usually 17:57:02 mizmo, nb : anything else? 17:57:05 hiemanshu: well I don't! them FESco people go for over 2 hours 17:57:07 nope 17:57:14 onekopaka: Open Floor time 17:57:26 #topic Open Floor 17:57:30 hiemanshu: not much else from me 17:57:32 is there orientation for new websites folks? 17:57:38 im gonna work on more mocks this afternoon for the website 17:57:43 Its great being in the meetings, but I'm lost. :D 17:57:45 FergatROn, well, not really, what kind of things are you itnerested in workin on 17:58:00 .fas (3) Oral or written or digitally signed email notice of a meeting of the 17:58:00 committee must be given by the secretary to each member of the 17:58:00 committee at least 48 hours (or such other period as many be 17:58:00 unanimously agreed on by the members of the committee) before 17:58:00 the time appointed for the holding of the meeting. 17:58:03 #info mizmo going to work on more mockups for the website 17:58:06 oops crap i pasted something else in here 17:58:12 I'm a backend developer, but I also do a lot of front-end work (usability, interface stuff) 17:58:13 .fas FergatROn 17:58:19 .fasinfo fergatron 17:58:30 have you cloned a copy of fedora-web? 17:58:33 FergatROn: usability/ui design is my specialty :) 17:58:42 nb no 17:59:00 mizmo: well any need for PHP developer? 17:59:10 FergatROn: not much 17:59:13 FergatROn, git clone ssh://fedorahosted.org/fedora-web.git i think 17:59:16 hiemanshu: actually not true 17:59:21 FergatROn: we do need PHP devels 17:59:23 FergatROn: for Zikula 17:59:30 mizmo: i have really seen much SO FAR 17:59:38 havent* 17:59:42 FergatROn, and blogs is php 17:59:43 FergatROn: i think Zikula is written in PHP and stickster was looking for a PHP developer to help with i 17:59:58 yeah that Zikula thing 18:00:12 FergatROn, we are trying to figure out a way to make wordpress-mu play nice with ssl 18:00:14 well I'm game stickster 18:00:16 We do need PHP and JavaScript people to help, yes 18:00:26 sijis is working on that 18:00:30 FergatROn: You can join the logistics list to sign on to help 18:00:36 * onekopaka likes PHP and JavaScript 18:00:44 http://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/logistics 18:00:54 Introduce yourself and ask how you can help 18:01:08 We have a list of some current issues here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Zikula 18:01:27 * hiemanshu does PHP as well 18:01:29 Some of the problems are already well defined and just need a couple hours of knowledgeable people's elbow grease to resolve 18:01:34 awesome! I'll do that (this weekend probably). 18:01:48 Other than developing, I kind of like documentation... weird, I know. 18:02:02 so I luv me so wikis. 18:02:11 some* 18:02:28 that reminds me 18:02:40 is there anything anyone needs from me? 18:02:44 * onekopaka does cd Sites/mwtrunk && svn up 18:02:46 e.g., mockups gfx 18:03:11 mizmo: not that I know of 18:03:21 kk 18:03:23 not you mizmo , but will this log get posted in the mialing list? I plan on uploading it to the wiki later. 18:03:26 i have some time this afternoon which is why i ask 18:03:37 FergatROn: i think so 18:03:37 mizmo: if you could zip me the latest source files would be great 18:03:40 .fas Eric Christensen 18:03:40 FergatROn: it's totally going on the mailing list 18:03:48 hiemanshu: there's only one source file for all the screens 18:03:48 .fainfo sparks 18:03:52 .fasinfo sparks 18:03:54 hiemanshu: it's the SVG i gave u the link to before 18:04:00 * nb supposes he could use /msg i forget about that 18:04:01 mizmo: ah ok 18:04:19 ianweller, ping 18:04:49 hiemanshu: i didn't use to do it that way but i think it's more convenient to have one source to work with 18:05:02 * hiemanshu nods 18:05:12 mizmo: MOST people dont work that way 18:05:27 yeh 18:05:33 hiemanshu, well, if she chooses to do so i don't think theres a problem? 18:05:40 it makes it easier to copy elements between screens if they're in the same file tho 18:05:47 nb: when did i say i have a problem :) 18:06:00 hiemanshu, well, using most in all caps i thought you were implying that 18:06:05 * hiemanshu agrees to mizmo 18:06:08 ok folks. I gotta get back to work. Thanks for the meeting. I'll try and comb over it this weekend and wrap my tiny brain around it! 18:06:08 i started doing the same file because i was doing so much copying between the front page and get.fpo lol 18:06:21 thanks for stopping by FergatROn 18:06:25 look forward to working with ya :) 18:06:35 * FergatROn signing off! Zoooom! Same here mizmo 18:06:35 nb: i asked her for ALL source, and she said she did that in one file, and i most people dont do that way 18:06:48 hiemanshu, thats ok, nevermind 18:06:51 but most people dont use inkscape, they use photoshop as well ;-) 18:07:02 * mizmo someday will convince the designers of the world that inkscape kicks photoshops butt 18:07:28 mizmo: it'll save them hundreds of dollards! 18:07:34 dollars* 18:07:38 mizmo: yup 18:07:54 mizmo: Fedora+inkscape, the only path to heaven eh? 18:07:55 * onekopaka opens Inkscape on his *gasp* mac! 18:08:19 wait, where is inkscape? 18:08:24 * onekopaka lost Inkscape 18:08:40 * onekopaka gets it 18:08:43 onekopaka: even thousands 18:08:47 hiemanshu: it is :) 18:08:54 inkscape => world peace 18:09:10 * onekopaka curses 18:09:14 do we have anything else left? 18:09:20 I have to upgrade my X11 on my mac to run Inkscape 18:09:21 onekopaka: Can I ask a question about the URL for the legal export notice? 18:09:21 onekopaka: endmeeting? 18:09:28 stickster: yes 18:09:29 stickster: sure 18:09:35 hiemanshu: not endmeeting. 18:09:44 Someone noted that this was approved. Is there a URL link for the approval and who gave it? 18:09:47 This is useful for later 18:10:26 stickster: mizmo said it looked like what the lawyers want. 18:10:55 stickster: i had floated the idea by the lawyer via spot before and he replied saying it owuld be okay 18:10:56 OK, so this hasn't specifically been approved by any legal eagles yet? 18:11:00 stickster: i can forward that mail to you if you want 18:11:05 Oh yes, that would be great. 18:11:08 stickster: that mockup wasn't specifically approved but a tet description of it was 18:11:12 s/tet/text 18:11:26 stickster: do you need the link again? 18:11:38 onekopaka: I have sijis's URL above 18:11:46 stickster: good. 18:11:47 mizmo: OK, that helps 18:12:18 mizmo: Can you forward to me and poelcat? 18:12:33 stickster: no prob, ill do that right now 18:13:43 so anything else? 18:13:50 nope 18:14:28 so the panda is totally going to be at least a visual aid for the visitors 18:14:36 panda!!!!! 18:15:05 the panda already points stuff out on the page 18:15:31 * hiemanshu thinks a panda pointing with a bamboo would look better 18:15:52 hiemanshu: ahhh that's a great idea! 18:18:10 #agreed The panda is here to stay to at least point stuff out with his bamboo 18:18:29 onekopaka: i think we can end 18:18:31 so #endmeeting? 18:18:35 anyone got anything else? 18:18:50 onekopaka: no answer in next 30 secs means yes 18:19:35 #endmeeting