Re: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it

[Patrick Schmidt]

Hi Graham,

I'm willing and (hopefully) able to help! I have experience in LaTeX so I might 
also get along with texinfo. I've edited quite a lot of html-files in my life. 
I might be able to do some mundane css-job. The »Ich nein katza,«-part sounds 
interesting to me! ;-). I might as well do some proofreading or translations 
into german. Maybe I can also work on some ly-files. Though being a stupid git 
I already managed to install git.

Where should I begin?

Cheers,

Patrick (PLS)

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:55:11 -0700
> Von: Graham Percival <address@hidden>
> An: address@hidden
> Betreff: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it

> http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html
> 
> There's now an Examples section, thanks to Jonathan Kulp.
> - currently, most examples have a "click-to-expand" thing.  Some
>   of them don't work expanded, others don't work non-expanded.
>   But there's enough working stuff for you to get the idea.
> 
>   IS THIS WORTH IT?  Making it work nicely in small+expanded
>   versions is turning out to be a pain.  I'm wondering if we
>   should just stick to small examples, which are approximately
>   infinitely times easier to create/modify/regenerate.
> 
> 
> More importantly, we need help.  I recently re-iterated my claim
> that the lilypond community should have the
> program/bugs/documentation/website they deserve, but currently
> this isn't happening -- Patrick and I have spent a ton of time and
> effort on this website.
> 
> - Patrick wants to spend time programming lilypond.  I also want
>   him to spend time programming.  He's doing nifty stuff like
>   fixing the SVG output, fixing misc bugs, and cleaning up a ton
>   of advanced documentation.
> 
>   WE NEED A NEW CSS PERSON.
> 
> - I'm wasting a lot of time on mundane jobs.  For example, the old
>   news page needs to be put into the new website source.  This
>   means going through a bunch of things like
>     <h2>New German translaton!  Aug 07, 2006</h2>
>     <p>Ich nein katza, <a href="http://blah";>auf blitzen</a> drie.</p>
>   and turning it into
>     @subheading New German Translation!  2006 Aug 07
> 
>     Ich nein katza, @uref{http://blah, auf blitzen} drie.
>   Not hard.  I could even train an undergraduate to do this job!
> 
>   WE NEED SOMEBODY TO WRITE TEXT.
> 
> - I tend to rewrite / reword sentences as I work on them, but I
>   have a nasty habit of not reading the once I erase stuff and
>   write new material.  The result is by native English speakers,
>   although it may slightly confusing.  Not what we in a shiny
>   new website, that's for certain!
> 
>   (also, many sentences on the website could be rewritten to
>   reduce the words, reduce the complexity -- remember, we have
>   a fair chunk of non-native English readers, so let's not
>   elaborate our missives with loquatious (sp) verbitage)
> 
>   WE NEED SOMEBODY TO PROOFREAD TEXT.
> 
> - Some of the examples could be improved... fancier formatting,
>   adding more text to the theory example, etc.
> 
>   WE NEED SOMEBODY TO WORK ON .LY FILES.
> 
> 
> Now, I'm *completely* capable of doing any of those tasks (even
> self-proofreading, once I get into the mood)... but
>   a) I don't think I should be doing so much work on this, and
>   b) if somebody does those jobs, I can tackle harder stuff.
> 
> I'm *really* not doing much this summer other than lilypond -- I
> have no job, no studies, no girlfriend -- so it's mainly a
> question of "what parts of lilypond do I work on", not "will I
> work on something".  So, just like we all benefit from having
> Patrick *not* working on CSS stuff, I think we would all benefit
> from me *not* working on the website so much.
> 
> Cheers,
>  -Graham
> 
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