>>> [!note] Migrated issue <!-- Drupal.org comment --> <!-- Migrated from issue #1156318. --> Reported by: [Jeff Burnz](https://www.drupal.org/user/61393) >>> <p>The Design Initiative&rsquo;s main goal is to develop a beautiful new theme for Drupal 8. The first phase of the initiative involves selecting the design. Designs will be sourced from the community via public submission and will be subject to peer review and the selection process. The initiatives main page is here: <a href="http://drupal.org/node/1089096">http://drupal.org/node/1089096</a></p> <p>For our initiative to be successful we need to attract high quality designers and provide the best environment to support public submissions, design reviews and the selection process.</p> <p>We have assessed both d.o and g.d.o and come to the conclusion that neither of these sites provides the right set of tools for our specific requirements. We need to remove the roadblocks for designers and portray an unwavering impression that we are fully supportive of their craft and sensitive to their requirements.</p> <p>Additionally we do not want to drag this completely off-site to another domain which would result in siloing a small community and be harder to promote as a serious core initiative.</p> <p>After careful assessment of the most popular design collaboration/review websites we concluded the only way to achieve this is to develop our own purpose built site. This site will be far more simple than the d.o issue queue or g.d.o and is 100% focused on iterative design development.</p> <p>To meet the requirements of the Design initiative we propose the following (breaking it down to the most basic requirements):</p> <ol> <li>Establish our own site for the Design Phase of the initiative (25th June - 30th Sep).</li> <li>Host this site as a sub-domain of drupal.org (probably design.drupal.org).</li> <li>Use Bakery for single sign on.</li> </ol> <p>We have prepared a technical brief for the site which includes a module list, which I have attached to this issue.</p> <p>I will be heavily involved with day to day operations of the site and will take on the role of a site maintainer (I can commit several hours per day if required), and we are currently discussing administrative/site maintenance roles with several interested parties (TBC) to handle the module updates and other site maintenance. </p> <p>Actual site building will be done by the Design Initiative team members who are all experienced Drupal professionals.</p> <p>We need to have the site up and running by mid June and live on the 25th June, when we will officially launch the Design Phase of the initiative at Drupal Design Camp, Berlin. We've been prototyping behind the scenes so we could have this up pretty quickly, pending Infrastructure review and setting up the domain etc.</p> <p>I am not sure how this process should work with infrastructure (actually setting up a sub-domain, bakery module, access etc) so we're definitely looking for some advice and guidance here. </p>