Tasks to Do for www.gnu.org

Here are many possible tasks for improving the GNU web pages. If you would like to help with one of them, please e-mail webmasters@gnu.org BEFORE you do any work on them.

Find a way that the fp:/gd/gnuorg/EventAndTravelInfo/announce-events.plx script can make it so that the what's new page can list new events when they are added. One simple way to do this is to have it simply email webmasters every time a new event is added, and ask them to add it manually. If you are interested in this task, please write to <bkuhn@gnu.org>.

Turn the GPL FAQ from an HTML document into a canonical XML format, that we can easily generate HTML from. One possibility would be to use DocBook, since it has some tags for handling FAQ lists. If you are interested in this task, please write to <bkuhn@gnu.org>.

Set it up so that the help page has under its GNU Task List entry the @chapter sections of the task list, to make it quicker for people to go to various parts of the task list. A script would probably be needed that read in tasks.texi and modified the help page accordingly. If you are interested in this task, please write to <bkuhn@gnu.org>.

Write web pages for GNU programs that lacks web pages on our server or whose web pages are obsolete using our software boilerplate as a template. Also read our software page standards.
Design a better sitemap that helps people find all places on the website easily. The sitemap should highlight particularly important parts of sub-pages (for example, the philosophy listing on the site map should have under it some particularly useful essays on the philosophy page).
Also, the idea of creating a programatically generated sitemap has been proposed; this would primarily be a tool to aid the writing a more easily navigated one by hand.
Design a page that introduces people to common resources to keep up with the GNU and the FSF project, such as the info-gnu mailing lists, and various areas of our website that change often.
Help translate GNU web pages from English into other languages.
Remove JPEG artifacts from all PNG pictures. You do this by removing "loose" pixels and turning them into 1bpp (in case of black/white drawings).
Create new graphics for our web pages. We mostly want to have nicer drawings like the ones we already have and perhaps in more colors.
We are looking for people to volunteer to convert documentation from various formats to Texinfo formats. This is something we need occasionally. We would like to have a list of people we could ask on these occasions. If you want to volunteer, please send mail to gvc@gnu.org.
Rewrite the various philosophy pages and bulletins in Texinfo and convert to HTML using texi2html.
They could then be easily included in:
- the /gnu/GNUInfo subdirectory of ftp.gnu.org
- the etc/ subdirectory of the GNU Emacs distribution
- in the GNU system's Info tree
- other useful locations.
in directory /fun/ include
- cgi-bin scripts that
  - conducts a dialog with GNU Emacs's doctor.el and convert it into HTML.
  - gets a zippyism from GNU Emacs's yow.el and convert it into HTML.
  - feed zippyisms to GNU Emacs's doctor and convert it into HTML.
  Roland McGrath has done some of this on his home pages. Ask him if you can copy his work over to http://www.gnu.org
  This would not work on mirror sites that don't have GNU Emacs installed, so it be good to have a link on the page to the page here on http://www.gnu.org, Something like:
```
	      If this didn't work on a GNU mirror site, please try it on
	      http://www.gnu.org.
	      
```
  Shell, PERL, and/or Java implementations of yow and doctor might exist or could be written and distributed from those pages.

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Updated: $Date: 2001/09/23 18:01:36 $ $Author: bkuhn $