Hi Daniel, On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 10:54:08PM -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Jacqueline McNally wrote: > > > The OpenOffice.org web site, and especially our home page is one of our > > most important and effective marketing tools. > > We should design the website with the mindset of meeting visitor's needs.
We should keep that in mind, yes.. > It's not about what you (or me) want to tell them, but about what they are > wanting from us. ..but this is not true. With a webpage you want to achieve something. There is *no* webpage out there that is not meant to fulfill a certain purpose. > > [...] > > The page we are talking about is referred to as a home page, but I think > > we need to consider it more of a door page to the huge amount of > > projects, activity and people behind that door. > > We should put the user first, not the marketing department. Our top > priority should be to meet the visitor's needs. Especially on the HP. Meeting the visitors' need is OK, but do we we want to sacrify our "mission" for that? > > - mailing lists - I feel that we need to let people know of our mailing > > lists, > > You feel? What is that feeling based on? > Just because *you* know about them doesn't mean that new users do. In > fact, people new to open source are not even familiar with the concept of > mailing lists. Just looking at the people who actually make it as far as > posting to users@ or discuss@ you'll see that a significant number of them > are rather lost. ? "let people know of our mailing list" -> how does this contradict with your statement? > [...] ciao Christian -- NP: Kid Rock - Only God Knows Why --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
