[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] [Tuxmath-devel] [Tux4kids-discuss] Tux4Kids still alive?

[David Bruce]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Tim Holy <holy at wustl.edu> wrote:
> Dear Matt,
>
> That would be great. Surprisingly, after months of no one stepping forward,
> you are the 2nd person in the past couple of days to express interest in
> helping us with our pressing need for a better website. I'm CCing Pamela
> Marquez, the other volunteer, and Holger Levsen, who I think knows more
> about web design and the policies of the alioth server than I do.
>

I'd really second that.  Although our site is acceptably functional,
it is not very inviting.  Whenever I look at the Tux Paint website
(www.tuxpaint.org) I am reminded how far behind we are.  I'd love it
if we had something similar enough to be a little remeniscent, but not
a blatant copy.

Along these lines, I have become increasingly convinced that our "File
Releases" page is not very well suited to the general user because it
has links for every release we have ever done.  We need an easy page
with prominent download links (with suitable graphics) that will take
users to the latest release for his/her platform (like Bill has for
Tux Paint).

The "multiple files" issue may soon become even more important,
because we will soon be able to provide rpm packages for all of the
major rpm-based distros (RedHat/CentOS, Mandriva, OpenSuse, Fedora)
for both i386 and amd64 architectures.  This is a result of
participation in OpenSuse's Build Service, which basically automates
building for all of these distros.  Similarly, we can offer current
.debs.  I'm not sure if we want to put all these on our site, or just
have links, but clearly it would be way too complicated for our
current "File Releases" page, IMHO.

Cheers,

David