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Website Team
The LibreOffice Website Team aims to maintain and enhance our website, wiki, planet and other web infrastructure. At the moment, it primarily works on the LibreOffice international website (http://www.libreoffice.org), and supports the creation of local websites for our worldwide community.
The next steps for both the website team, and the website infrastructure are currently being planned. If you are interested, then please join the website team.
Contribution and Support
Question: How to provide feedback concerning the website?
Answer: Please add any feedback to the Feedback wiki page. Or, you can contact the website team on the website mailing list.
Question: How to join the website team?
Answer: There is no formal process, but subscribing to the website mailing list. Once there, please introduce yourself and tell us what you are interested in. You may also have a look on our LibreOffice website Get Involved page for Web Admins to get an idea what skills might be helpful.
Question: I want to share an idea, how to do that?
Answer: For ideas that can be described quickly, please send it to our mailing list. Don't send any files (attachments) to the mailing list, since they will get automatically removed. Instead, please upload the files to an other website (e.g. photo website), or to this wiki. If you want to describe your thoughts thoroughly, it will make sense to explain your aim in the wiki - e.g. on your personal wiki page. Then, please tell us via a mail to the website mailing list.
Question: I want to make a screenshot for the website, how to do that?
Answer: Remember some points:
- Take them under Ubuntu Linux, using the Ambiance theme, with 'no' visual effects. Don't do any screenshots with a Windows program because of some uncertainties in the licenses coming from Microsoft.
- Take the 'window only' with the window frame - not the whole desktop.
- 1000px wide by 750px tall - you can use Screen Ruler to accurately size the window. Much better will be a high-quality PNG (or JPG) file, with a size of 1600x or 1900x. Print magazines often ask for usable screenshot, and the better the quality, the better it is for printing. Note that you don't need to create scaled down versions of the screenshots as our CMS will take care of that.
- Anything up to a dozen good shots from each app is what I'm hoping to accumulate.... in each app, demo the key features: in Writer, tables, indexes, etc..... I'm sure you see what I mean....
- The file you use for taking the screenshot should ideally be called "sample.odt" (or whatever extension)
Communication Channels
The primary communication channel for the website team is the mailing list, since it is accessible for most people in all the time zones. You'll always find a helping hand there :-)
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| Public mailing list website@global.libreoffice.org |
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Please subscribe to mailing lists before sending messages. |
| Phone Conference Calls |
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| Twitter #LOWeb |
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| The Document Foundation Planet |
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What is a Planet? |
| Limited Access mailing lists |
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Activities and Work Items
| Topic | Sub-Topic | Tasks | Comments | Last Update |
Status | Responsible |
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| Silverstripe Website | Website |
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The LibreOffice website is live on [1]. We are currently seeking individuals interested in writing original content for the site relating to the LibreOffice product and community. If you wish to improve a page on the current website without becoming an editor or publisher on the Silverstripe CMS please post your suggestions on the Development page.
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2011-01-30 | Active | Website Team |
| Silverstripe Website |
Review |
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2011-01-27 |
New |
Website Team |
| LibreOffice Wiki | Creation | tbd |
The LibreOffice Wiki will be an end user support and information system which will allow the creation of tutorials for the end user, by the end user. Many open source project have a main product wiki for this type of support, such as most Linux distributions |
2011-01-30 | Proposed | tbd |
| Mail System |
LibreOffice Mail Attachment Service |
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Enable sending attachments to mailing lists and keep in mind: security, traffic, ease-of-use, costs and misuse potential. |
2011-03-24 |
Active |
Admin Team |
| Extensions Website | Website | layout proposal |
Andreas Mantke created with the support of a Plone developer a new website for LibreOffice extensions. This site uses the default layout of Plone and needs to be customized (see the first picture on this site). We need a layout proposal for this new site, that incorporate our colors and a good design. |
2011-06-05 | Active | Design + Website Team |
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Roles and Responsibilities
To maintain a high level of quality, the website team makes use on the infrastructure's capabilities to assign different roles: "Authors" who provide content, and "Publishers" who will confirm content to make it publically available. Nevertheless, our goal is to have an open open and collaborative approach - everybody who is both interested and experienced is asked to contribute and to join our effort.
If you need help, then please ask on the website list, refer to the list of tasks and volunteers, or contact:
- Infrastructure: Christian Lohmaier
- Textual Content: David Nelson
- Design: Ivan Miskovic (Design Team)
- User Experience: Christoph Noack (Design Team)
Next Steps and Roadmap
At a meeting of the LibreOffice steering committee 27/10/2010 a decision was made to quickly implement a temporary site based on the SilverStripe CMS which will provide information about the project until a final solution is implemented. The final solution for the website infrastructure was decided to be a Drupal based installation as the code is very flexible and powerful. Silverstripe has been agreed to be the default website CMS, with an option to consider a Drupal website in the future.