I'd like to contribute to this project by enhancing the current website (or redesign actually).

Is the team interested in such a thing? I'm willing to offer a considerable ammount of resources to host the site on my server ([anything].covac-software.com eg: fpcqt4.covac-software.com ) for free.

Of course, the content will be decided by the developers etc. This is for free with a guaranteed life time for as long as I'm alive (I'm only 18 ;) so that's some time).

Here's a complete list of what I'm offering:
-mysql/bandwidth/harddisk space (at least 100mb of HD) -server scripting languages (preferably PHP, but there's CGI, ASP, Python...) -website redesign, both visually, structurally and in the backend (with an easy to use CMS)
-adding of more features in the future (eg, forum, plugins...) -aiming at decreasing the need to do web stuff yourself, so you could focus on the core project and rely on someone else to keep stuff in place.
-system support (someone you can rely on)
-a sub domain (with any prefered name) on covac-software.com *

* Domains are costly to maintain for several projects (I'm hosting other similar projects) so unless I'm paid for a domain name, I can't offer one for free.
That said, anyone can buy a domain and make it redirect to the website (cloaking) which I'm ok with.

The current website should be made to redirect to the new one (while the content is archived in a zip or something).

That's all for free.

Sincerely,
Christian Sciberras.

Christian Sciberras wrote

by enhancing the current website (or redesign actually).

thnx for the compliment ;-)

Is the team interested in such a thing? I'm willing to offer a considerable ammount of resources to host the site on my server

I used to use Sourceforge, lots of resources, but I switched to this and gained in efficiency. The current solution serves me well, it is only meant to provide the releases. I admit the page is simplistic, but it is meant that way, there is nothing much to tell, only to offer the different downloads. Content is the focus, not the packaging.

One page is fine and optimal for search engines.
Anything else should not be on this site
* documentation should be in the fpc/lazarus wikis
* communication should be via the already available mailing list.

So H/W resources are not a problem, verification of the releases and the documentation are far more important (human resources). E.g. if now release 2.1 will be used by lazarus svn, a lot of documentation needs to be changed and this has to be verified. Furthermore, my main platform is linux, so the other OSes could use some love too.

Thnx for the offer, but the maintenance of the content of the existing wikis, readmes, should be the focus, not the infrastructure.

but thank you again.

kind regards,

Den Jean (Jan Van hijfte)

Jan Van hijfte,

Well, at east I've put the offer ;)
If you ever change your mind, let me know.

Kind regards,
Chris.