On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:43:49 -0600, Ivan M <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Ian,
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
I would say the problem is a lack of concrete discussion; I'm sure
that if someone put forward a [specific] suggestion about what they
think would be good to have on the homepage / some other page(s) on
the OOo website, they won't be ignored.
I'm just thinking back to a few years ago when this sort of discussion
was
much more common. Nothing happened so pretty well all those involved
appear to have moved on to other things.
That's why I was careful to write *concrete* discussions - discussions
which result in action (at least more often than inaction).
[...]
The solution is simply
one of delegation. Give the marketing leads control over the front page
of
the web site. That is a simple decision but it requires trusting the
marketing project leads - but why have them if they can't be trusted
with
some real influence? What does democracy mean in the project?
Both marketing project leads have access to the front page. Florian
has been updating the news items on the home page for a long time. The
idea for the action statements came from Graham, a member of the
marketing list, and there was input on other areas from marketing
members on the website-dev list... so other than the website-dev list,
I would say that the marketing list (or at least some of its members)
has had the biggest influence on the front page of the website.
In line with the original goals of the homepage (to get users to the
more specific page they want more quickly and easily), I think the
'why' website would be a much better focus for topical marketing
campaigns, with a news item on the homepage to promote it. But that
would take a co-ordinated effort which has been lacking. If there is a
push from this list, is there any reason why you couldn't harness the
talents of the website-dev and art lists to help create a great
marketing campaign?
Regards,
Ivan.
Between what Ian and Ivan said I have a suggestion, les call for a team
and leave the whole resolution to the team just having external comments
as suggestions. The team should have technical people (web developers)
content providers (marketing) and maybe UX people. And grant them
*"ACCESS"*
We don't need a productive team with an unproductive leader all over again.
Have just a small team of 4 and then move on. Otherwise we will waste
another 56 emails discussing without a final goal.
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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