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[Travis McCrea <me AT travismccrea.com>]

Hey guys,
I don't want to cause drama or publicaly call anyone out, but when the 
website was being designed I approached multiple people who were working on 
the "secret project" and asked to be the one to design the new site. I tried 
to tell them about all these flaws that you guys suggested below and said 
that the site still looked like it was developed by engineers instead of by 
people who understand design. 

I was told (basically) to back off and that there was already a person 
working on it and apparently they wanted to meet a self-set deadline or 
something. I don't know but the point is that I was specifically told not to 
get involved. Which was frustrating, but I also like being a cog in the wheel 
and if other people think that they know better -- who am I to judge.

However, now that it seems that we are all in agreement of my initial 
complaints... let me make some suggestions to get the site going:

1) Let's start the theme based on 
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/responsive I was thinking at first to base 
it off a bootstrap theme, which also would be cool, but realistically 
"Responsive" does everything we need out of the box and looks nice.

2) Let's integrate the functionality of useopennic.org into 
OpenNic-Project.org the source code for useopennic.org is freely available 
(https://bitbucket.org/teamcoltra/useopennic).

3) Let's use the wordpress functionality to be blogging about notable 
websites which are using OpenNIC. This boosts user engagement and let's 
people find websites that are using OpenNIC something that I think a new user 
wants to see. 

I don't have anything to add on the wiki issue but this:

I don't want to be disrespectful to Brian, he has been around much longer 
than I have and has way more experience than me. However, if the barrier to 
entry on our current wiki system is too great that people are not using it, 
and switching to mediawiki or something would fix that -- we cannot allow one 
person to have god like authority. 

"I maintain it, and I'm not going to go through the learning curve of another 
wiki."

This feels really insulting to the way we do things at OpenNIC, we are a 
team. We can't expect you to keep maintaining the wiki if you don't want to 
-- but to make it seem like it's simply not something that can be discussed 
because you are comfortable with the current system(and did not even provide 
valid reasons for us needing the current wiki, outside of you not wanting to 
work with another wiki system).

I don't have another suggestion, I don't even know if the current wiki is the 
problem -- or if it is just that people don't like to edit wikis. My problem 
is the idea that we can't have a debate on the topic, or that one member 
tries to imply that.

Hopefully I am not offending anyone, if people want my help building ONIC 3.0 
then I will gladly take part. <3 


nanashiRei wrote:
> Am 04.12.2012 03:58, schrieb Quinn Wood:
>> Someone mentioned a Github project, I have an account for no reason.
>>
>
> https://github.com/nanashiRei - add me as contributor if you do.
>