Hi Jacob, I was wondering whether there were any entries and whether a decision has been taken to appoint a benevolent redesigner?
Personally I really liked Dana's proposal, marketing-wise, and considering she raised the question, I would certainly support her. My apologies if I missed a conversation on the mailing list. Best regards, Wim Op donderdag 24 mei 2012 19:14:36 UTC+2 schreef Jacob Kaplan-Moss het volgende: > > Hi folks -- > > Thanks so much to everyone who's participated in this thread; I feel > like there's a lot of useful discussion and brainstorming going on. > > The DSF board met yesterday and discussed the effort -- we're > determined to get this done soon. Unfortunately, we ultimately think > that this collaborative effort isn't working: there's a lot of great > ideas, but some of the discussion is veering closer to "design by > committee", and nobody's really empowered to move things forward. > > Ultimately and sadly, though, great design is at odds to a community > process: the only way we know to get something we *love* is to find > someone awesome and let them do their thing. > > So here's the plan: in the next month we're do exactly that: find > someone awesome, and give them carte blance on the redesign. We'll of > course give feedback, and touch base with the community a few times, > but ultimately we're going to put this thing into one person's hands. > > If you'd like to become the Benevolent Dictator For This Redesign, > then please send a proposal to <found...@djangoproject.com <javascript:>>. > This > doesn't need to be formal; we just need to know two things: > > 1. Can you deliver? Convince us that you'll actually be able to get > this done: show us a track record of shipping, and explain why you'll > have time to work on this. We'd like to see this land before DjangoCon > US in September; can you hit that? > > 2. Are you awesome? Convince us that your design will rock. This can > come in the form of a mockup, or previous work, or whatever. Again we > don't need formal stuff here, and we certainly don't expect spec work. > We just want to make sure your aesthetic matches ours. > > A few further notes: > > * I want to stress the informality of this. We don't need or want a > full formal proposal like you would for a real client; we just want to > know that you're awesome and can deliver. If you can prove that to us > in a few words, do it! > > * You don't have to do this all yourself; we have quite a few > volunteers. Importantly, we have *plenty* of people who can help on > the backend (natch), so really all we need is someone who's great at > the design side. How much of the actual coding you do is up to you. If > you've got weaknesses that's complete fine, just tell us what help you > need and we'll fill it in. You'll be in charge visually and > aesthetically, but we'll encourage you to delegate as much as you can. > > * We don't currently have a budget assigned; we're thinking this'll be > volunteer work. However, the DSF *does* have some funds, and if money > makes the difference we'll spend it. So if you need money to make it > happen, tell us. We won't penalize you if you need to get paid (but at > the same time we hope you recognize we probably can't afford market > rates). > > * The deadline is Sunday, June 17th, and we'll aim to make a decision that > week. > > Thanks everyone! > > Jacob > > PS: I'm deliberately burying this down in the thread instead of > posting this more publicly. I'd like to avoid this becoming a general > call; I'm more interested in reaching people who're *already* paying > attention to this effort. I'd appreciate it, then, if you'd keep this > call off Reddit, Hacker News, etc. However, if you know someone who > you think *should* be interested, please forward it onto them! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/-/BIpmPoJtjvMJ. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
