vendredi 10 janvier 2003

Working with Godefroid In Rotterdam I had a chance to work with Godefroid Chapelle from BubbleNet in Belgium. Boy was that fun! Heimo posted a picture of us arguing at dinner. We did some arguing and a lot of agreeing, and I really enjoyed it. He's now one of the leaders on the Zope 3 UI, particularly the "Rotterdam skin" for site developers. This is really good news. He has good sensibilities about design choices, listens well to other points of view, but also passionately states his own. Plus he's really good, on the Zope side and on the browser side. He's planning to come to the Zope 3 UI sprint in Paris, as part of our Zope pavilion at SolutionsLinux. This means that four of the Rotterdam skin people (Godefroid, Alan, Alex, and me) will be there again, plus Sidnei (who did much of the Zopetop skin). Cooking up vittles, baby! 6:33:45 PM   comment []

Zope 3 UI chat log Yesterday the OzZope user group had an IRC chat about the Zope 3 user interface. Godefroid Chapelle (the person doing 95% of the UI work for Zope 3) participated, as did Stephan Richter and I. The chat log is now online. Some interesting conclusions. There seemed to be agreement to refer to the project as "Rotterdam", rather than "the Zope 3 UI". This will help make the point that Zope 3's UI is replaceable, and also that we are focusing the UI efforts on individual actors. Also, it gives the do-ers freedom to pursue their own thinking without worrying about the burden of being "official". We also got some volunteers. Gus and Jan will help on the icon and logo work and Richard Jones will jump in on the navigation tree. In fact, Richard started immediately after the chat. But Rotterdam and the Zope 3 UI efforts need much, much more. There is an endless amount of input about what should happen. Unfortunately, there isn't nearly enough participation. The tree is an excellent illustration, because it doesn't require any real knowledge of Zope 3. (In fact, that was the intention when I proposed the "fetch an XML document and render on browser" approach). So, if you're reading this and you know a bit about CSS, JavaScript, the DOM, XML, web iconography, or fonts, please jump in! 11:59:11 AM   comment []