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[dust4ngel <dust4ngel@xxxxxxxxx>]

with regard to selecting / evaluating themes, i wanted to suggest some
guidelines:

things to focus on:

   - header style (logo area (we'll use our own logo), menu and navigation
   styles)
   - text treatment (font styles, font sizes, text spacing, link styles and
   color, header styles)
   - block styling and spacing (side bar spacing, border styles)
   - available regions (is there a styled footer? a styled side bar?)

things to pay less attention to:

   - pictures on the site
   - how content blocks happen to be laid out
      - if there are three footer blocks, we can have four, etc
      - if there is a side bar on the home page, we can remove it for that
      page, etc
      - regions can be enabled/disabled on any page

in other words, realize that the theme we pick will define how things
*can*look.  we will be able to move things around in any theme.

/dust


On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:41 PM, dust4ngel <dust4ngel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> #1 : group communication
>
> *requirements:*
>
>
>    - documentation of static information: what we've built, who people
>    are, etc
>    - calendar of upcoming events: meetings, meet-ups, important dates
>    - task management: what tasks are open, who is assigned to what
>    - off-line discussion: conversations not in real time
>
> *
> implementation*
>
> solution 1)
>
>
>    - documentation: drupal books (wikis)
>    - calendar of events: drupal entities with date fields
>    - development task management: launch pad
>    - development discussion: launch pad
>    - non-development tasks: drupal (a la our issue tracker on beta)
>    - non-development discussion: drupal forums / organic groups
>
>
> *add notifications to drupal
>
> solution 2)
>
> dedicated 3rd party software (to be researched by eddie)
>
> #2 : status of /r/rpac
>
>    - change /r/rpac to /r/osdf once site launches
>
> #3 : site theme
>
> - find a good theme on the web and skin our site with it
>     - possible sources:
>         - http://themeforest.net/
>         - http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/browse/popular/
>     - toast, kage, eddie, moparx will pick a set to vote on
>     - others can contribute candidates if they wish
>
>
> /kage
>