Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Minet Web Site SPIP Skeletons - savannah.nongnu.org

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hi,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:39:46AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
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> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
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> Laurent Cottereau <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Minet Web Site SPIP Skeletons
> System name: minet-web
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> We want to create a set of skeletons for SPIP (http://www.spip.org). They 
> will be in XHTML strict and CSS, and focus on strict separation of content 
> and layout. They will also advocate for the fact that a site can be both 
> accessible and good looking, and, through the open source license, give 
> people tricks to do the same on their sites. SPIP is more and more widely 
> used, but because of different approaches of the core developpers, these 
> kinds of priorities are not tackled in the SPIP project (quite the opposite 
> actually), and haven't been tackled by anybody else yet. We feel that any way 
> of promoting this kind of programming for a web site is very important, and 
> want to make our contribution. However, we need a platform to do this 
> efficiently, as the developpers are scattered throught Europe (as of now). 
> The current skeletons can be viewed at http://minet.net/spip/squelettes/ .

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Please remove GIF images files from your project and replaced them
by other format (such as PNG or JPEG).

Because of the patents (Unisys and IBM) covering the LZW
compression algorithm which is used in making GIF files,
it's impossible to have free software to generate proper
GIFs.  They also apply to the compress program.

For more information read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html

Please register your project once more with the changes mentioned
above.  The way we handle pending projects makes it difficult to keep
track of projects that have been answered but have not been approved
yet, so we erase them and we ask you to register the project again every
time some change has to be done to the registration, and users might
have to register their projects several times.  Thank you for your
understanding.

Some users find it useful to use the big re-registration URL provided in
the acknowledgment e-mail you received after registration.

Regards,

Rudy
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> Other Software Required:
> SPIP (http://www.spip.org)
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