proposal: web design contest

[Daniel Quinlan <qu...@pathname.com>]

I propose we start a web design contest to design a new web site for
<http://spamassassin.apache.org/> to finish in time for our 3.1 release.

** DRAFT ONLY **

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Requirements:

 - reasonable standards conformance

 - good appearance with graphical browsers (especially, Mozilla and
   Internet Explorer on 800x600 screen or larger) and usable with
   text-based browsers

 - good maintainability using text-based source for site, can be
   maintained via Subversion, may not depend on proprietary tools

 - contestant willing to contribute submission under standard Apache
   Contributor License Agreement and help install/integrate new site
   into our Subversion tree

 - integrate our current logo, pay attention to correct usage of
   "Apache" and "SpamAssassin" trademarks (the current site is a bit
   off in this respect).

Submissions meeting the requirements will be judged on meeting the
following criteria:

 - design and appearance

 - ease of navigation

 - A more standard set of top-level pages (we are very flexible on how
   this is done, the end goal is a better site).  For example (in no
   particular order):

     Download
     Products/Solutions
     About Us
     News/Events
     Support
     Initiatives

 - not being too out of step with other ASF projects

 - backward link compatibility for pages currently indexed by Google

 - solid and clean coexistence with the SpamAssassin Wiki
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Daniel

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Re: proposal: web design contest

["Malte S. Stretz" <ms...@gmx.net>]

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:55 CET Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> Okay, I moved the contest description draft into the wiki with a
> prominent note that the contest has not started.  I added a few
> additional requirements and judging parameters and also put on a
> tentative finish date of March 31, 2005.
>
>   http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SiteContest
>
> I'm hoping the silence indicates lots of agreement, but since this is a
> rather big thing, can I get a few +1s on this one?

+1  I'd like to see something XHTML-compliant and CSS-driven, not a big 
bunch of <table>-hackery.

Cheers,
Malte

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Re: proposal: web design contest

[Daniel Quinlan <qu...@pathname.com>]

Okay, I moved the contest description draft into the wiki with a
prominent note that the contest has not started.  I added a few
additional requirements and judging parameters and also put on a
tentative finish date of March 31, 2005.

  http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SiteContest

I'm hoping the silence indicates lots of agreement, but since this is a
rather big thing, can I get a few +1s on this one?

Daniel

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