My TA3M presentation covers most of the volunteer page's projects. Placing it
here will give visitors an easier method to learn about our projects (rather
than digging into a wall of text).
This has the right proportions on my screen, but I'm not sure about other
resolutions. Fingers crossed it looks ok elsewhere...
I've been a little worried about stem's discoverability for a while now. Over
this last month I've been investing a lot of time into making stem's site
(https://stem.torproject.org/) beginner friendly for newcomers that want to
develop against tor, but that's all for not if they don't even know that it
exists.
Vidalia is both inactive and no longer used on its own (it's either used as
part of the Tor Browser or not at all), hence there is little reason that
visitors to our site would be interested in knowing about it.
Replacing Vidalia with Stem on the project grid of the front page. I'm also
replacing stem's logo with one of a slightly higher quality. I asked armadev on
irc if he had any objections to this but no reply (my guess is that he doesn't
really care much, though it might also be that he's too distracted with the
obfs2 blocking discussion and forgot my question).
Stem is far enough along that it's useful to users, and should have a spot on
the projects page. Also revising the volunteer page links to point to its
readthedocs page, which is presently our homepage.
I used the larger image because it looked fine and didn't alter the layout of
the page. If the size is really a concern then that's trivial to fix - this
makes it the same size as the low resolution version. As for the other concerns
mentioned in ticket 3682...
- The file size difference is tiny. If you really care about sizes that much
then we should run an optimizer on the site to remove unnecessary whitespace
in the html. Btw, the file size of this small version is 4.5 KB (vs 4.9 with
the big version and 4.0 with the low resolution).
- It's simple to lighten the image if that looks better to you. In Gimp just go
to "Colors > Brightness-Contrast..." to make it match the old version.
This adds these four projects to the "Our Projects" section of the Tor front
page. Unlike the previous projects that we had there (Torbutton, Tor Check,
Vidalia, and TBB) these aren't part of the TBB ecosystem and hance not easily
discovered.
Having all eight projects feels cluttered to me and I'd suggest dropping Check
and TBB since the user will be downloading and using these reguardless of a
presence on the front page, but this is Andrew's call.
The tor logo in the upper left is a low quality version (solid color onion
stem, no anti-aliasing, etc). This looks really bad and I suggested this
replacement months back but didn't get any feedback so gonna try 'moving the
cheese' to see if anyone screams.
our -news list for updates and newsletter, remove the old google
webmaster tool auth files, rename jquery file to not include the version
number to save us from updating every reference every update.
