Hi :) I think it is more important to tantalise our target market, to get them keen to try it. Satisfying people is unhelpful as we need people motivated rather than complacent.
Curiosity enticed me into trying Linux and then outrage at the realisation of the amount of time wasted for me by MicroSquish systems (that are designed to be vulnerable and difficult to fix) encouraged me to stay. The question is how can we encourage others to try OpenSource? Perhaps a similar route to mine or a different one per person. How do other products market themselves? Our/your product is better but how do we get people to want to try it? Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Christoph Noack <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 22 December, 2010 11:24:34 Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status Hi Tom! Am Mittwoch, den 22.12.2010, 10:33 +0000 schrieb Tom Davies: > Hi David :) > > I prefer > http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/bbnG0Hny0SpccJIZsGp72A?feat=directlink > because it has less information and looks prettier. > > Sadly, that seems to be what people want. Information confuses people and >seems > > to need to be on subsequent pages. Also the picture on Well, there is no "the people" ... there are people having different requirements and living/working in different environments. Some guys want to have in-depth information in advance, some consume basic information and just want to give things a try. Thus, it is not about hiding information, but to provide it step-by-step - managing the concept what people can grasp. That is why I think that we miss the requirements of quite some users at the moment ... > http://test.libreoffice.org > took ages to appear and people don't seem to have patience beyond a couple of > milliseconds and when it appeared the first image was 'horribly' complicated. > > Isn't it a gif? Could it be less size byte-wise? Same for me ... > By contrast competitors websites show almost nothing and give almost no > information. [...] > > I do think both are great and both do the job of easy access to the download. > > The text needs to be somewhere on the site and preferably just 1 click away > or > reached when the page is scrolled down, something easy. Yep. > I would say keep the one we have already or switch to the one that is closest >to > > completion whichever one that is. I'd say ... whatever helps us to satisfy the needs of the majority of our users. So even if it might take some additional work, it seems worth the effort. > Regards from > Tom :) > > PS this is only my opinion and i might be a little bitter and twisted nowadays Sorry to hear that :-\ Cheers, Christoph -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
