Tasks to Do for www.gnu.org

★ wanayoo — archive 1999 http://www.gnu.org/server/tasks.html

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.

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. Right now, we are in particular wanting people to write a web page for Flex.
Help translate GNU web pages 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.
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.
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.

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Updated: 27 Dec 1999 prash