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

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