BRL-CAD wants to encourage new developers and give credit to existing ones. A page on the wesbsite that gives details on the core contributors can help new developers learn the community and encouraging their participation.
We are interested in seeing concepts for what this page will look like. Concepts should be consistent with our existing (new) website design which you can see at http://cpp-tricks.com/brlcad/ or http://beta.brlcad.org/wp/
The task is to design a web based hall of fame where we'll be able to itemize each core developer with biographic information (e.g., their name, IRC nick and types of contributions they've made).
You may use any language or technology, (e.g., HTML+CSS, Javascript, WP plugin, etc), but a working webpage mockup is preferred. Submit your design in a raw editable form. Include a PNG screenshot of the design along with your editable files.
References:- https://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/code/HEAD/tree/brlcad/trunk/AUTHORS
- http://underscores.me/
- http://www.ogre3d.org/about/team
- https://www.freebsd.org/administration.html
- http://mil-oss.org/about/steering-committee
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Team/whois
| File name/URL | File size | Date submitted | |
|---|---|---|---|
| https://brl-cad-project-waterwings181.c9.i... | n/a | December 10 2014 04:06 UTC | |
| code.docx | 902.6 KB | December 10 2014 04:15 UTC | |
| index.html | 11.5 KB | December 12 2014 07:06 UTC | |
| contributor_bios.html | 2.8 KB | December 12 2014 07:06 UTC | |
| main.css | 2.8 KB | December 12 2014 07:07 UTC | |
| m.jpg | 88.6 KB | December 12 2014 07:08 UTC | |
| m2.jpg | 76.0 KB | December 12 2014 07:09 UTC | |
| frame.png | 19.1 KB | December 12 2014 07:09 UTC | |
| w.jpg | 89.5 KB | December 12 2014 07:09 UTC | |
| w2.jpg | 114.3 KB | December 12 2014 07:09 UTC | |
| brl_cad_project-3.tar | 880.0 KB | December 12 2014 14:10 UTC | |
| brl_cad_project-4.tar | 1.7 MB | December 14 2014 04:42 UTC |
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Olivia, this is a nice overview page! I like how you based it off of our AUTHORS file contents, though the prose needs to be simplified a bit more for web display. The pop-up information when you scroll over names is very nice too, innovative.
The questions I have are 1) how you'd expand the page with additional categories of contributors (there's only one or two names that would fall under Project Administrator)? and how would you propose the page should work if javascript is disabled? We can't rely on the pop-up so there has to be some other way to get at that information (perhaps clicking on their face is intended to go to a page about them?).
Lastly, you submitted your work as a word document containing screenshots of your html and css code (!) ... please just zip up your files and submit those. We certainly wouldn't want to type in everything you screenshot by hand... :)
Okay! Thank you for the advice and the extension! I'll work on creating links for the bios of each contributor in case javascript is disabled, but for now I made a couple other changes based on your suggestions. What do you think? (You can use the same link that I submitted) Also, what do you mean by simplifying the prose?
Almost done, just one final question: what do you mean when you say to simplify the prose?
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Hey Olivia,
Can you please upload the entire code in a zip / .tar.gz format or may be on github ? and does the provided link contain the latest work of yours ?
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Yes, the first link contains my latest work. And I'll submit a tar.gz format right now.
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Olivia, sorry for not replying sooner. This is looking great. The only bit is reducing the prose, which is all that text above the contributor circles. You pulled those six paragraphs from our AUTHORS file, but I bet even you didn't read all that.. ;)
Especially on the web, less is more. Can you try to shorted the text to the most important information. For example, several bits of information in there aren't even relevant any more like names being sorted in chronological order and the entire 3rd paragraph. I'm sure you won't have any trouble reducing it, just try to put care and thought into what is kept and what is removed.
The BRL-CAD development team would like to take this opportunity to thank the many people and organizations who have contributed to make BRL-CAD the package it is today.
We strive to accurately and completely recognize the groups and individuals that have helped make BRL-CAD the package it is today. Contributors are grouped together and ordered chronologically with the earliest named first; likewise, the more recent contributors are listed at the bottom.
Names are optionally followed by the date of their first contribution and a list of affiliations. Individuals supporting and contributing to the project on their own time and of their own accord have an affiliation listed as "Open Source".
Yeah that would be fine.
Apart from that, it would be great, if you use the same header, the one given here
http://cpp-tricks.com/brlcad/
The code of this website can be found here http://cpp-tricks.com/brlcad.tar.gz
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