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Done! Now to wait for them to send the images @camikaos
Awesome! Thank you so much Mariano!
Wowww! Thank you Mariano for being SO fast! 😀
I just took the last one on the list, so we’re done with all the initial emails!
Is it always difficult to get most people to add them? It looks like even after this push, most camps still haven’t added one.
If that’s the case, maybe it’d be better to just not display the images at all? We might be able to tweak the design so that it looks good without them.
+make.wordpress.org/design
We could also try and use the images that they set as their site logo or header image, since most camps probably do that. The automatic cropping probably wouldn’t be perfect, but in this context I’m not sure it’d be noticed much.
FWIW, the current banners are an awkwardly thin size that makes it hard to design for, in my experience. Plus, they’re shown at 1x, so they look blurry and fuzzy on the website, if you can even find them, since Central often hides the page that shows them. The only way I could locate an individual camp page was using the “upcoming wordcamps” widget on the homepage.
The primary place I was thinking of is http://wayback.fauppsala.se:80/wayback/20200301182829/https://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/; I agree that people don’t really visit the individual pages for the most part.
Maybe if we broke the list into 2 columns, it’d look better w/ just text?
If we can automatically create a thumbnail for that page (at whatever dimensions you think is best), then I’m guessing that’d be better than text-only?
+1 to automatically create a thumbnail for that page, @iandunn! It would save us a lot of manual work, to organizers and deputies 😀