Improved Bootstrap Customize Experience
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Nicolae Vartolomei
Mar 23, 2012, 4:23:02 AM3/23/12
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Current interface is booring, but actually very customizable, that's good, but at some time you could get lost around. My mind tries to rework this in a step-by-step one.
What if all those options will be in a something like vertical accordeon, and you can step-by-step move through slides choosing that you need being concentrated on that you really want.
One thing that really is missing is a color picker, also there was an idea that at first step of customizing you could start with a template or with a color scheme/palette.
Another good thing to add to the colors section is that when user chooses a color for background to calculate based on some funky relations the colors for headings, text, links and so on. To provide at each step tips about lack of contrast or for number of colors he chooses, you know what I'm talking about, you are in UI/UX field.
looks like a good sketch must be there.
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fat
Mar 26, 2012, 1:53:34 PM3/26/12
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Yeah Mark and I talked about doing a collapsible interface in the
beginning but decided to against it for some reason - he might
remember.
Definitely agree that a color picker would be awesome.
There's also a lot of technical things (beyond UI stuff) that would be
awesome to have improved (this would most certainly involve rewriting
or heavily modifying the backend). Things like dynamically checking
for files (incase mark or I rename or move files), better cacheing
(maybe put this behind a cdn?), etc.
> *looks like a good sketch must be there.*
>
> ^_^https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/2751
beginning but decided to against it for some reason - he might
remember.
Definitely agree that a color picker would be awesome.
There's also a lot of technical things (beyond UI stuff) that would be
awesome to have improved (this would most certainly involve rewriting
or heavily modifying the backend). Things like dynamically checking
for files (incase mark or I rename or move files), better cacheing
(maybe put this behind a cdn?), etc.
>
> ^_^https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/2751
Maya Price
Mar 26, 2012, 3:40:38 PM3/26/12
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Hello all!
My name is Maya Price and I'm a first year at Pitzer College in
Claremont, California. I'm a double major in Computer Science and
Anthropology. I heard about GSoC from an upperclassman and thought I
should look around and see if it's worth applying. I know HTML, CSS,
and some Java and I don't know much about open source code besides
what I've been reading over the past couple of months.
Because I am a lot less experienced than most of the people who have
been posting on the message threads but I think that one of the best
ways to learn new languages and skills is to just dive in and immerse
yourself in the experience.
That being said, Twitter is literally one of my favorite parts of the
internet and being able to learn from people from one of my favorite
companies would be a gem!
Just thought that I'd introduce myself and say that I'd be very happy
to be able to learn and work with you if I were accepted.
My name is Maya Price and I'm a first year at Pitzer College in
Claremont, California. I'm a double major in Computer Science and
Anthropology. I heard about GSoC from an upperclassman and thought I
should look around and see if it's worth applying. I know HTML, CSS,
and some Java and I don't know much about open source code besides
what I've been reading over the past couple of months.
Because I am a lot less experienced than most of the people who have
been posting on the message threads but I think that one of the best
ways to learn new languages and skills is to just dive in and immerse
yourself in the experience.
That being said, Twitter is literally one of my favorite parts of the
internet and being able to learn from people from one of my favorite
companies would be a gem!
Just thought that I'd introduce myself and say that I'd be very happy
to be able to learn and work with you if I were accepted.
Vartolomei Nicolae
Mar 26, 2012, 5:45:16 PM3/26/12
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It would be great if Mark could join this conversation and say little bit about why he doesn't like collapsible interface, this seems the best way to let user focus on process.
I saw the backend is written in Node.js, that's cool and I'm ready to hack on it.
About dynamically checking for files, looks like there should be a better way to do this, want should happen if a file is renamed or deleted? Probably here would be nice to have some descriptors for each section about what file can be customized or something like that.
Cacheing and CDN for that?
little busy now, I'm trying to do my best to fill my application before deadline, have some intermediate exams right now
Chris Aniszczyk
Mar 28, 2012, 1:45:54 PM3/28/12
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The best advice I can give is to try your best filling out the application and the adhere to the requirements (listed below) we specify on the wiki: https://github.com/twitter/twitter.github.com/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2012
Proposals will be submitted via http://socghop.appspot.com, therefore plain text is the best way to go. We expect your application to be in the range of 1000 words. Anything less than that will probably not contain enough information for us to determine whether you are the right person for the job. Your proposal should contain at least the following information, but feel free to include anything that you think is relevant:
Please include your name and twitter handle!
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Please include your name and twitter handle!
Title of your proposal
Abstract of your proposal
Detailed description of your idea including explanation on why is it innovative
Description of previous work, existing solutions (links to prototypes, bibliography are more than welcome)
Mention the details of your academic studies, any previous work, internships
Any relevant skills that will help you to achieve the goal (programming languages, frameworks)?
Any previous open-source projects (or even previous GSoC) you have contributed to?
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