[daisy] [skin2] Poll for participation and input

[Kealy, John]

I've spent quite a few days up to my eyeballs in the current skinning
system so I'd like to help if I can. As I come from primarily a site
builder/HTML designer background I found the documentation of the XSLT
variables used in the skin a bit deficient. Either that or I missed the
documentation entirely which would be bad too!

I also think some kind of gallery of skins and some sort of way of
sharing skins would be very helpful to build up the daisy "ecosystem".
Seeing an easy way to put an entirely new face on a site would certainly
make more people and organizations interested in daisy.

Pardon me if I get a little meta here. It seems to me that Outerthough
is the core and heart of the Daisy ecosystem at this point. This will
always be true. However it also seems to me that there is little
community outside of that core. I think there are a number of other
dedicated developers out there now who are more application developers
than developers of the core CMS.  A skin library and some application
libraries might be a way to begin to expand beyond the Outerthought
core.

Again, maybe there is someplace for developers like me to participate
and to upload code and skins to share, but I haven't yet discovered it
or been invited to participate. We've got some excellent folks here
doing very interesting stuff, maybe it's time to let them show the world
what they are up to. 

Best regards,

John Kealy