For 2 it could be a kind of "download day" page. - Romain
Le 1 oct. 2011 23:03, "Karan Malhi" <[email protected]> a écrit : > First of all, congratulations to all of you for having put in so much > effort behind this great release!. Now, we just need to have a great > finish this week. > Here are some of the things we can do towards having a fantastic release: > 1. Release soon. JavaOne is next week, and we defintely want to > release TomEE ASAP. David blevins will be talking at JavaOne and its a > great opportunity to atleast let the folks know about TomEE. Timing > wise , this is a superb opportunity for releasing a shiny brand new > TomEE. > 2. Website: Replace the current home page of OpenEJB with something > like this: http://people.apache.org/~kmalhi/ . This is just temporary > and we will get back to our home page after a few days. Keep it > simple, focussed, and encourage folks to download and install. No > distractions, no gimmicks, a to the point message and then download. > Remove all barriers to download and use (which is usually too much > information on a page). The font, colors etc on the mockup page are > ugly and i do not have the artistic ability to provide something > fancy, but simple, bright colors would be cool . Feel free to suggest, > changes to content in the mockup, I just made it up quickly as i > created the mockup, could put more thought into it and definitely more > ideas are welcome. Personally, would prefer if our generous artist > could give us this one fantastic page on TomEE, I would like to > prioritise this over our website template. > 3. Twitter account for TomEE: Not sure if we already have one, if not, > we need one. Tweet and retweet as often and as much as possible. Also > add the HashTag #JavaOne in it, this way it appears here:- > http://www.oracle.com/javaone/index.html. Oh and if we could have a > twitter section on the TomEE page , that would be awesome > 4. Be ready to answer questions on the users mailing list. This is > probably the best possibly way to let users know, we are active, we > care and are available for the longer run. > 5. If you bump into something which is blatantly wrong in the TomEE > docs, just change it. Fix as you go. > > There are other ideas too, but practically speaking, if we get the > above done, that would be cool!. > -- > > Karan Singh Malhi > twitter.com/KaranSinghMalhi
