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[William Cornelius <william@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Blueprint changed by William Cornelius:

Whiteboard changed:
  [William]
  
  As far as the theme of the website, I intentionally went with a super
  minimal design to reflect the super minimal distro. The website leans
  heavily on a shade of blue with RGB values: 128, 179, 255 - I found that
  particular shade to be inviting, also 80% of human beings favorite color
  is blue (for whatever statistics are worth).
  
  Wordpress has seen too many security issues over the years for me to
  trust.
  
  Content is simple once the actual pages the site will have is
  established.
  
  As far as other people being able to administrate the website. The
  easiest way would be to upload a folder with the HTML files, stylesheet,
  and images. This would have to be password protected and secure.
  Considering that such  person would need FTP access, it would probably
  make most sense to simply tuck the files away somewhere on the webserver
  unless they would simply rather edit the files directly from the live
  directory. I can also look at integrating a CMS solution such as
  pagelime, I have worked with it before, but looking into it is not at
  the top of my list.
  
  Other topics: Are we going use an official forum? I thought there was talk of that some time ago but my mind might be playing tricks on me. I have a partially constructed forum here: forums.torios.org/index.php - If we do go with a real forum(I really think we should) I would be the administrator but would also need a couple of moderators. Rules of conduct would need to be established for the moderators to enforce.
  [f-jack] We could do a google plus community like we have with Ubuntu Gnome instead of a forum. That works really well for the project and I could help teach any of the mods if needed.
  [William] I have lent, and continue to lend the idea of using a Google+ community as our solution to a message board. But I do have concerns. One, Google+ is a minority player - realistically, not many people use it and we need to have discussions that are highly available to all. I know people who refuse to use G+ and they have their own good reasons. Anecdote: My distro of choice is elementary OS. I have been using it since Luna was release so many months ago. One of the first things I realized was that instead of having a message board, they used G+ to serve that purpose. My first post to that community was a long tirade against using G+ as a forum, with a stream of logic to support my argument. Needless to say that post did not go anywhere, but to this day as I evangelize elementary OS, I run into people who have heard of it, but refuse to use it all because there only means of communication is G+. Don't get me wrong, I know mechanically G+ is a good option, and in regards to eOS I got used to it and am very active in their community... I suppose leave it as a matter of debate for the moment.
  
  [Mélodie]
  
  About G+ : I think it is as fit to develop projects as it would be on
  twitter: that's to say it doesn't make sense.
  
  I agree about using the forum for many things. I will probably not
  replace the specific places for brainstorming such as here, but can be
  very useful for things we need to be able to reach topic by topic in one
  shot, and all gathered under a unique index.
  
  I can offer to become moderator, only I would like the rules to be as
  simple as possible. Here is what has been defined for Linuxvillage
  forum, please tell me what you think?
  
  http://forum.linuxvillage.org/index.php?topic=3.0
  
  I would suggest to use IRC on freenode to have a direct chat for all. #torios on irc.freenode.net is a place where I could find some people to help setup, keep, and configure the right way, and I also know some persons who could setup a log for it. Linuxvillage has two places to keep logs for the chan, including a search engine:
  log: http://irclog.perlgeek.de/linuxvillage :: http://irclog.spacecompute.com/linuxvillage
  
  I know you, William, and Ali, said you don't like IRC. If you have an
  xchat client nicely configured, with the right colors for each part, and
  the right fonts, you shouldn't have issues with it.
  
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  [amjjawad] Kindly have a read at:
  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/torios/+spec/team-communications
  and
  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/torios/+spec/forum-vs-mailing-list
  
  P.S.
  Let's take it easy, shall we??!!
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+ 
+ [William] Yes, G+ is awful for managing projects, I was referring more
+ to offering a community for end users. Which also has downsides over a
+ forum. In another email you mentioned configuring the board to
+ accommodate graphic design. I have gone ahead and done so. You should
+ have an email I replied to regarding why I set it up the way I did. It
+ is simple enough to make you a moderator, but really wouldn't make sense
+ unless we put up another board for end users. I am not opposed to IRC,
+ merely unaccustomed to it. I had a chat with Ali sometime ago and it was
+ the chat I have been party to in over a decade.
+ 
+  Ali, I have been away from my computer more then usual the last few
+ days, as I consequence I am drowning in email and my head is spinning as
+ I try to catch up. Possibly a dumb question: Is the re-assignment of the
+ forum for graphic designed discussion sharing sanctioned? If not, then I
+ am submitting it here as a suggestion.
+ 
+ I am going to catch up on your required reading and then take it easy as
+ you suggest.

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