Our web redesign project has continued to move forward in a phased approach. Before Fedora 12 release, the spins.fp.o pages were also completely redesigned and implemented to provide spin owners a better way to market and promote their spins. Now, before Fedora 13 release, we're well on our way to completing the last bits of the get.fp.o pages that were redesigned, providing a clearer way for people to download the default image.

The next phase of the current redesign process is to revamp the front page (the main fedoraproject.org page) to be more informative and welcoming for a wider audience. In the Board's public meeting last Thursday we had a conversation with the Websites team and one of the actions I took on was to start talking with the Websites and Design team about setting milestones for this redesign. I would hope to complete this phase well in advance of the Alpha release of Fedora 14, which would help us avoid crunching up too much workload into the last phase of our release cycle, and allow everyone to concentrate on other pieces of the release.

I want to invite members of the Design and Websites team who want to work on this next phase to, first, look at the work that Mo Duffy has already done for mockups, and second, think about the tasks we need to complete to make those mockups into reality.

* Are there any widgets or supporting scripts that need to be completed first?

* Who can we get to create the photos and other collateral to populate the front page?

* Any tweaks we want to make to the design to address open issues?

Then we can set some dates for completion and make this part of a regular meeting agenda. I think it makes sense to coordinate this work on the websites@ list, so I'm setting that reply-to. Anyone interested in helping with further refinements, and HTML, CSS, and JavaScript work, can sign up for the websites list here:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites

I'd like to arrive at a schedule by the first Websites meeting *after* F13 GA, which is approximately 10 days from now if I remember the meeting schedule correctly.