[Freedombox-discuss] Introducing myself and ideas for Plinth

[Melvin Carvalho]

On 24 February 2012 12:17, Alistair Davidson
<alistair.l.davidson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey man, great to hear this :)
>
> I've been looking at the front end of Plinth too, as have a couple of
> others. I was considering Twitter's bootstrap (
> http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/), but only because I'm no graphic
> designer. Sounds like you are?
>

Pretty much the whole world has moved to twitter's bootstrap 2, since its
launch.

It's a great system really, and responsive so can display on any resolution.



>
> We had a discussion recently trying to develop some user stories; I think
> some progress was made, but there are still a lot of unknowns and question
> marks! I suppose it's going to be a case of drumming up some prototypes to
> start to answer those.
>
> Clone the git and mess about, post the link here, folks will pitch in,
> offer thoughts and so on.
>
> I mostly work on the UX side of things; I'd be up for a chat, swapping
> sketches and so on. My jabber account is this email address.
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Sean O'Brien <me at seandiggity.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm new to this list, the freedombox, and collaborating on free software
>> projects outside of my university (UConn).  I've been installing and
>> tweaking Debian on my own for about a decade, and my professional
>> background is as a web developer.  I'm no stranger to free software, the
>> political and legal concepts behind it, and the perils of social
>> networking.  However, I will have some n00b questions as to the best way
>> to collaborate on Plinth, which is the area I think I can be most useful.
>>
>> I've cloned the git repo for Plinth and taken a good look at it.  What
>> I'd like to do next is modify the templating system with the HTML5 code
>> from http://html5reset.org  It's just a blank starting point for any
>> HTML5 template, and it comes with a lot of features that are either
>> becoming de facto standards or allow for better mobile/cross-platform
>> compatibility.  Most importantly, it's simpler and more compact than the
>> other major alternative (http://html5boilerplate.com).
>>
>> Should I just open an account on github and get started?  Or should I
>> make my changes, get them to a mature point, and commit them to the main
>> Plinth repo?  Or, would it be wiser to just start another branch for the
>> HTML5 template(s)?  Adding HTML5 Reset shouldn't take long, but fleshing
>> out a solid, shiny template will take a couple of weeks I would think.
>>
>> Look forward to working with you all,
>> ~ Diggity
>>
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