We need a new design for http://mediagoblin.org/ for the 0.1.0 launch! This is the site about the software project, not an actual instance of the software. The colors should match a little bit closer to our MediaGoblin software, though the look and feel does not have to be the same (in fact, maybe shouldn't be, as the software is designed to be non-invasive so that the media can stand out, but this is marketing material, and so the design should stand out on http://mediagoblin.org)

I made a vague ascii art mockup for the frontpage.

|         |_blog_|_wiki_|_Download_|
|                                  |
|           MediaGoblin            |
|                                  |
| .------------------------------. |
| | Art   Text describing GMG    | |
| |       goes here!             | |
| |        - bullet              | |
| |        - point               | |
| | .-------. .------. .-------. | |
| | |       | |      | |       | | |
| | |scrnsht| |scrnsh| |scrnsht| | |
| | |       | |      | |       | | |
| | '-------' '------' '-------' | |
| '------------------------------' |
| .--------. .--------. .--------. |
| | Run it | | Use it | | Join us| |
| |        | |        | |        | |
| '--------' '--------' '--------' |
|  .----------------------------.  |
|  | News!                      |  |
|  |  - Headline!               |  |
|  |  - Headline!               |  |
|  '----------------------------'  |

The idea of this is like so. There's something similar to the top-navigation like we have now in the upper right, but the rest of the frontpage is broken up into three primary sections

• First section sells it: provide a cute image of the mediagoblin mascot, provide text perhaps with bullet points explaining it generally. Directly underneath the text/image but in the same block is a carousel of screenshots
• Second section directs you: Three columns, each one targeted with information to properly direct members of our three target audiences (Administrators, site-users, contributors)
• Third section informs you of updates: Just headlines from the blog with datestamps which link directly to recent entries.

Example detail of an element from the second section:

.---------------------.
| Run it              |
|---------------------|
|  Run MediaGoblin!   |
|  Be awesome!        |
|                     |
|   - Here's the docs |
|   - Maybe another   |
|     bullet          |
'---------------------'

We should also:

• consider reorganizing other sections of the site
• add archiving features to the blog, probably the yeararchives plugin http://pyblosxom.bluesock.org/registry/archives/yeararchives.html

We need to add support for licensing content uploaded to GMG instances. For basic support we need to implement the following:

• attach the license (identified by a URI) to Media
• allow users to select a license for media (probably start with fixed set)
• display license when users view the media page

I think there should be some documentation for this feature (e.g. below entry fields) to explain its functionality.