Lunar, thanks a bunch for putting this together.
It would truly help if some folks could start experimenting with [static generators] so we get a better feeling of how much they could be fit for the Tor Project's website or not.
It sounds like a few people* are definitely capable of starting on this. My experience with Jekyll is limited to my own website, but I am extremely interested in hacking on an implementation of Middleman or Jekyll with some folks. Perhaps this discussion can be-picked up*, and a git repo can be initiated :). And as lunar indicated, we have some content to play around with, including the blog posts which were scraped a couple weeks ago [1].
* = [Tor www-team] [Back-end][CMS] thread [1] = https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10479
-ultrasandwich
On Jan 18, 2014, at 6:20 PM, Lunar lunar@torproject.org wrote:
Hi!
Here's a couple of tasks you could pick if you wish to move things forward regarding Tor website:
Create a sitemap for the current torproject.org website
It would be great to have a better idea of what the website already contains. An inventory of what is already there, which personas it would interest, what ought to be split, recycled or simply thrown away would be really useful to think about the organization of the new website.
If you wonder where to put the result, it can be done directly on the relevant ticket: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10591 or on a dedicated wiki page, waiting to existing: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/Website/OldSitemap
Experiment using some static website generators
The wiki page currently list three static website generators, namely Pelican, Jekyll and Middleman. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/Website#Engine
It would truly help if some folks could start experimenting with them so we get a better feeling of how much they could be fit for the Tor Project's website or not.
As content, feel free to convert the some of the current WML website https://svn.torproject.org/svn/website/trunk or to use some of what ultrasandwidth has scrapped from blog.tpo: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10479
Design a new navigation system
The navigation on the current Tor website has been said to be confusing. There is the top-level bar, then the strange “Download, Volunteer, Donate” buttons, and the second or third level navigation on the left…
I think we could start brainstorming around some design drafts on how this could be made better.
Even if it's not likely to be what we end up with, using the 2010 original sitemap is probably still relevant to think about how pages could be organized: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/raw-attachment/ticket/10591/tor-pro...
These are only what I can come up with. If you have an idea of another concrete things that you thing could help moving us forward, please go ahead!
(Thanks Rey for proof reading this mail.)
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