[TEAM] Website Team Report

Jason Rogers jacaetevha at fast-mail.org
Fri Jun 10 14:26:50 UTC 2005


Jason Rogers wrote:

> Jason Rogers wrote:
>
>> Well, here goes for my first official ProgressReport for the 
>> WebsiteTeam.
>>
>> Since the last report (was there one? :) Stephane Ducasse has stepped 
>> down as TeamLead and we have acquired a new TeamLead, namely me. :)
>>
>> Thanks to Stephane for leading this team's efforts so far.  I will 
>> endeavor to do as good a job.
>>
>> Having been TeamLead for a whopping 24+ hours I have already noticed 
>> a burning issue: we need more help.  You may ask how you can help, 
>> please consider the following:
>>
>>    1. HowTo texts: you can submit these to the SqueakDevMailingList.  
>> They won't necessarily be used in whole or in part, but I do promise 
>> to read them all.
>>    2. ScreenShots: Do you have a favorite "world" in Squeak?  Perhaps 
>> there is a portion of Squeak for which you would like to have more 
>> visibility.  We will be accepting screen shots soon (hopefully).  The 
>> process by which we will do this has not yet been determined.  
>> Posting screen shots to a mailing-list seems like a bad idea since it 
>> will potentially bog down email accounts subscribed to the list, so 
>> stay tuned for how you can post your favorite shot.
>>    3. Goran Krampe has been working on some texts for the site 
>> already, namely a "selling pitch" for Squeak and a "joining the 
>> community HowTo".
>>    4. The new site is planned to be hosted at 
>> http://box1.squeakfoundation.org:7777.  We are currently having 
>> issues with this site (SmallWiki issues and a reference to an 
>> unreachable StyleSheet) that is causing very slow responses (on the 
>> order of 3+ minutes per page).  We are working on this and hope to 
>> have it fixed very soon.
>>
>> If you have any questions, concerns, or other feedback please feel 
>> free to hop into the discussions.
>>
> I just remove the reference to 
> "http://laza.homeip.net/squeaksite/newstyle.css" from the StyleSheets 
> page of http://box1.squeakfoundation.org:7777.  That has helped a 
> great deal in responsiveness.  I am not sure who is responsible for 
> this StyleSheet but if you could send it to me I will make sure it 
> gets onto box1 so we can serve it from there.  Thanks!
>

I know it's bad form to continue to reply to my own posts, but I just 
wanted to add that the Download and About links (probably the 2 most 
popular links on the site) are still atrociously slow.  So, don't hold 
your breath just yet.

-- 
Jason Rogers

"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I,
but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in 
the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved 
me, and gave himself for me."
    Galatians 2:20




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