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Any concrete details or progress on this? Still realistic for Q3? I know Andreas is absent at the moment, which might delay things in case his feedback is required

No big progress yet as other tasks have come up, and with LibOCon around
the corner let's bump this to Q4. If Andreas is at LibOCon, though, I
could arrange to meet with him and come up with a solid plan.

Sounds great!

Sorry, but I'll not be at the LibOCon this year.

Andreas Mantke wrote:

Sorry, but I'll not be at the LibOCon this year.

If you're up to that, Mike could work with you on this via e-mail, and Guilhem and Cloph could help rolling out the changes if needed?

To move this along, Andreas, what do you think are the most important things the site needs? In my opinion:

• Some design improvements (eg "Log in Register" at the top all looks like one link, and there are various bits with green on grey which are hard to read)
• A guide to making and submitting a template – either in step-by-step form, or a video

For the first one, if there's an admin interface for customising the theme and layout, and you don't mind giving me credentials, my username is "mikesaunders".

Improvements to the look of the extensions-templates-website has to be done within the buildout hosted on github.com:
https://github.com/tdf/extensions.libreoffice.org
The theming lives here:
https://github.com/tdf/extensions.libreoffice.org/tree/master/src/tdf.extensioncentertheme
And the policy of the site is hosted here:
https://github.com/tdf/extensions.libreoffice.org/tree/master/src/tdf.exttempsitepolicy

Thus it is necessary that you get a clone of the github-repo, create a Plone instance with buildout and run a Plone instance in debug mode.

You need to follow the instructions for theme development here then:
https://github.com/tdf/extensions.libreoffice.org

@Mike I installed the npm and worked on the css for the 'log in / register' box. There is a space between this both entries now. Hope that helps.
If you want to work yourself on the css I could give you some hints to setup your test-/dev-environment.

To add on that, we might also do some wider outreach, collect feedback and proposals from the community and try to work on the things jointly - things don't necessarily have to end up at your desk only, Mike

Let's discuss this in the next team call, as it fell of the agenda for the all-in call. Can you remind me in time to add it the agenda? :-)

Not sure if it's worth keeping this ticket now, given that another website may be used in the future -- maybe reject it now, and make a new one later if/when a site has been created?

You shouldn't expect another site for this, because the one who has devaluated the volunteer work at no charge of about seven years, had his appearance and left the scene. There is no volunteer available to drive the site further because of this grand entrance.

I honestly don't think Mike is the correct recipient for frustration
here. He is trying to help and actually asks what is better to do. (For
the rest of the discussion, let's better move offlist if needed.)

Sorry, if one think I want to put frustration in Mike. I tried only to explain the current (and the expected) status oft the extensions/templates website and the reason for that. It seemed not everyone outside the board has got the info and were/is aware of the situation.

And as an addition: I created a Plone instance on a TDF-VM for the design-team a time ago: http://vm5.documentfoundation.org:58181/extensionstest
But it was not used up to now.

Thanks for the note - with whom were you talking about that, Heiko?

I talked to Andreas Kainz and he got a site-admin account on the site.