[Product-Developers] Diazo theming mission

Alex Clark aclark at aclark.net
Wed May 25 02:17:12 UTC 2011


Hi,

On 5/24/11 10:09 PM, Jon Stahl wrote:
> Alex-
>
> You should look back at the great work Veda Williams did on "OOTB
> Plone Themes" for Plone 3.  Different technology, different details,
> but the *process* she used was fantastic, particularly with regard to
> QA.  http://www.coactivate.org/projects/ootb-plone-themes/project-home


I'll take a look, thanks! Maybe we can use the new JIRA stuff to 
bootstrap a Plone themes project.


Alex


>
> :jon
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Alex Clark<aclark at aclark.net>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am interested in producing a series of attractive Diazo themes for Plone
>> 4.1 [1] based on freely available (and CC licensed) themes. So far I have:
>>
>> * https://github.com/aclark4life/plonetheme.unilluminated
>> * https://github.com/aclark4life/plonetheme.coolblue
>>
>> And will be adding more ASAP. The goals are:
>>
>> * Demonstrate how easy it is to turn freely available CSS themes into Plone
>> themes.
>>
>> * Provide both Python packages and Zip files for easy installation
>> (developers will gravitate toward eggs, end users toward zip files I
>> suspect).
>>
>> * "Finish" the themes. I'm particularly good at mass-producing the basics,
>> not as good with the full implementations and finishing touches. But I'm
>> going to try :-).
>>
>> If anyone wants to help, feel free to fork and send me pull requests. These
>> can end up on https://github.com/collective if there is enough interest.
>>
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
>> [1] See: http://blog.aclark.net/2011/05/22/new-plone-theming-has-arrived/
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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