On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I don't think this is a heresy. But it shouldn't go on the homepage, but in > the correct place of the demo. > > Videos are invasive, they require plugins, they require bandwidth and slow > doesn't loading times (even if not played directly), so it is better to put > them in specific, well known places. The video doesn't have to play and there could also be a fallback static image for the missing plugin. And people without resource probably have some form of flash blocking themselves. Anyway, just some ideas, which I don't really like it myself but someone may do so. > Our website - and perhaps the most important thing is the homepage - should > be readable by the widest audience. GNU gives some guidelines for GNU > project websites. I think some of them are too restrictive, however they > should be source of inspiration. During the restyle of the website, I'm > doing trying to do that. >> >> I can make something like this one below which take 2 days (but for >> this I can work on this much longer), nothing related just to give >> some inspirations and showing my capability so you don't expect a >> fully commercial grade advertisement, or may be we can? >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT2yQcrEpMA >> > > I think making videos of different aspects of GNUstep can be interesting. > Be it theming, GNOME and Windows integration, be it development or certain > key applications, we could offer quick previews of the interested. > > Currently, perhaps the best place is to integrate them in the Wiki. > > We need to consider that we don't have many resources on our Website. We > didn't have in the past either. This is fine and usual for an open source > project, but that means also that we need to try to make our website "valid" > for a longer term, so that it doesn't get out-of-date too quick. > > Many things which I find in the website aren't generally wrong, they are > "leftovers". > The wiki *should* mitigate that because its effort is more distributed, but > as far as I can tell currently it is not. Actually, having more information, > the problem is even more acute. > > > Riccardo I think may be we can also use some free services with ads, may be like Wikia? Only as a community wiki. Coz it's like they have 24/7 pro wiki administration to deal with spams, extensions and most wiki issues, more open to edits too. -- .----. Banlu Kemiyatorn /.../\...\ Free Software Yogi |.../ \...| 漫画家 GZSC |../ \..| http://groundzerostudiocomplex.blogspot.com \/ \/ http://qstx.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
