Goals
The Board's goals in the Website redesign are[1]:
- To make Fedora fresh, attractive, and inclusive for potential participants and contributors
- To more effectively promote a single instance of Fedora that satisfies the computing needs of the average person
- To provide an improved showcase opportunity for Fedora spins created by the community
What's happening now
Current phase: #Get.fp.o feedback and #Spins.fp.o feedback
Introduction
This is a project to redesign http://get.fedoraproject.org and http://spins.fedoraproject.org that is being undertaken during the F12 release cycle by the Websites team with assistance from Design and Infrastructure.
Goals
Redesign the get.fedoraproject.org and spins.fedoraproject.org sites in a way that fits the requirements. We will determine metrics for improvement during the feedback-gathering phases, but in general, we want more Fedora contributors, and our strategy for this is getting more Fedora users.
History
- 2009-07-30 Board meeting - Board decides to do project; initial requirements discussion
- Meeting:Board_meeting_2009-08-13#Spins_and_Download_site_redesign - first mockups presented
- Meeting:Board_meeting_2009-08-20#Spins_and_Download_site_redesign - formal requirements approved
- [Websites weekly meeting, Fri 2009-08-21] - schedule created
Schedule
- DONE: #Requirements gathering
- DONE: #First design mockups
- Aug 21 - Aug 28 : gather feedback, determine metrics, usability testing for get.fp.o (mizmo)
- Aug 21 - Sep 04 : gather feedback, determine metrics, usability testing for spins.fp.o (mizmo)
- Aug 28 - Sep 20 : Final design mockups for spins.fp.o (mizmo)
- Sep 04 - Sep 27 : Final design mockups for get.fp.o (mizmo)
- Sep 20 - Oct 20: convert spins.fp.o and get.fp.o to html/css (hiemanshu)
- Oct 20 : get spins.fp.o and get.fp.o onto infrastructure (ricky)
Requirements gathering
See Website redesign 2009 requirements for get.fedoraproject.org and spins.fedoraproject.org design requirements.
First design mockups
Mockups currently found here: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/
First get.fp.o mockups
This task is owned by Mo Duffy.
Workflow:
- User arrives at download either through this front page or this slightly more detailed get-fedora page.
- After hitting download, user sees this after-page with instructions on what to do next.
First spins.fp.o mockups
This task is owned by Mo Duffy.
Workflow: (Need diagram captured from whiteboard 2009-08-07)
- spins.fp.o page: mockup
- clicking on an individual spin puts you at that spin's page: here's an example (still under construction)
Feedback
A feedback thread is ongoing at the fedora-advisory-board list.
Get.fp.o feedback
This task is owned by Mo Duffy.
Spins.fp.o feedback
This task is owned by Mo Duffy.
Final design mockups
This task is owned by Mo Duffy.
Convert to html
This task is owned by Hiemanshu Sharma.
Get on infrastructure
This task is owned by Ricky Zhou.