From a1302608736bbf14652bc1fc0bcc0f369453e0c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:39:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Started the workflow document.  Currently just mockups. 
 Soon: more techy info.

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+========================================================
+ Workflow, and other structurally significant braindumps
+========================================================
+
+This document attempts to describe the envisioned workflow of
+mediagoblin, from a structural standpoint.  For now, *nothing* in this
+document is probably the eventual, final way that things will work.
+Eventually as things come to exist, this document will hopefully be
+refactored to describe how things *do* work.
+
+This documented on hopes, dreams, rainbows, and unicorns.  And it will
+come to fulfillment through a lot of hard work.
+
+
+Look and feel
+=============
+
+Default look and feel
+---------------------
+
+Mairin Duffy made mockups for something called Design Hub.  That
+project did a number of things differently than the way we intend to
+go, but it's probably a good idea to steal a good number of ideas from
+here.
+
+http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/another-design-hub-mockup/
+
+User profile mockup
+-------------------
+
+Here's an ascii art mockup on how things might look for a user's page::
+
+      _____
+     |_( )_|   USER NAME
+     |  |  |
+     |_/_\_|
+    
+        Recent artwork:
+       ___________________       ___________________________
+      |  ___   ___   ___  |     |_About_User_Name___________|
+      | |pic| |pic| |pic| |     |                           |
+      | |___| |___| |___| |     | Some sort of self-        |
+      |  ___   ___   ___  |     | description probably goes |
+    < | |pic| |pic| |pic| | >   | here                      |
+      | |___| |___| |___| |     |                           |
+      |  ___   ___   ___  |     |                           |
+      | |pic| |pic| |pic| |     |                           |
+      | |___| |___| |___| |     |                           |
+      |___________________|     |___________________________|
+    
+                                 ___________________________ 
+        Recent favorites:       |_Recent_activity___________|
+       ___________________      | New picture: DragonFace   |
+      |  ___   ___   ___  |     |                4/2/2010   |
+      | |pic| |pic| |pic| |     |---------------------------|
+      | |___| |___| |___| |     | Sup yall this is some kind|
+      |  ___   ___   ___  |     | of mini blogpost.  Maybe  |
+    < | |pic| |pic| |pic| | >   | the interface will allow  |
+      | |___| |___| |___| |     | for this?                 |
+      |  ___   ___   ___  |     |___________________________|
+      | |pic| |pic| |pic| |     
+      | |___| |___| |___| |      ___________________________ 
+      |___________________|     |_External_comments_here____|
+                                | Dang!  This stuff rocks   |
+                                |          - Joe 4/2/2010   |
+                                |---------------------------|
+                                | Nice job on the dragon    |
+                                |         - Morgan 4/2/2010 |
+                                '---------------------------'
+
+So there's this type of interface that puts a lot of different types
+of info on the same screen.  I'm not sure that I like it.  It's
+possible we'll go with something much more minimalist.  Maybe we'll go
+with something "tabbed" the way statusnet / http://identi.ca is on
+user pages.
+
+It's possible that we could support multiple profile styles here,
+and you could load whatever profile style you want as set by user
+preferences?
+
+
+Uploading mockup
+----------------
+
+Here's an uploading mockup::
+
+     Upload an image
+    
+     [ Title                                 ]
+    
+     Upload: [                      ] [Browse]
+      ___________________________________________
+     |                                           |
+     |                                           |
+     |                   o0O                     |
+     |                  o   '                    |
+     |                   o_.'                    |
+     |                                           |
+     |             Uploading... OK               | <-,
+     |              Resizing... OK               |   |
+     |                                           | Area replaced w/ resized
+     |                                           | image when done
+     |___________________________________________|
+              ________________
+     License |_CC BY-SA_____|V|
+      ___________________________________________
+     | Description goes here.                    |
+     | You can type it up in here and everything |
+     | and it'll show up under the image.        |
+     |                                           |
+     | Possibly we should allow some kind of     |
+     | markup... maybe markdown?                 |
+     '___________________________________________'
+    
+      __________________________________________
+     |> Advanced                                |
+      ------------------------------------------
+
+
+Customizability
+---------------
+
+General site theming customizability is pretty easy!  Since we're
+using `Jinja <http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/>`_ we can just set up
+user-overriding directories.
+
+We'll also figure out some sort of way to provide theming "packages",
+eventually.
+
+
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